Hey folks, long time prepress guy here working at an insanely busy NYC area print shop with a question for you designers.

Hi, I’m not a designer but I lurk here to see what you find folks are up to. Got a question for you all.

Did every designer on the planet have a secret meeting and you all decided sat the same time, to stop putting revision numbers on your files, or any indication at all that its somehow different than the previous version you send to your printers? I swear to God, it happened overnight, months ago, and hasn’t changed.
I get hundreds of revised files a week, and everyone just stopped Identifying the files as new or revised. Why does no one do that any more, and how do you safely keep your files straight, if you have multiple versions all named exactly the same?

It’s incredibly frustrating for everyone involved on the printing side of things.

I’ve got more questions as well, and feel free to answer these as well.

Do you know what bleed is and why printers need you to send files with bleed?

Do you look at your files or QC them yourselves before sending to your printer? We constantly send proofs back to clients and within minutes , we get revised files, like are you not looking at them before you send to your printer?

I’m sure no one reading these are the ones sending me files, just looking to get a vibe or a reason why things seem to have globally changed seemingly over night.

Thanks for any input and serious answers or discussion.

Regards, Your cranky neighborhood prepress guy.