Beware of Print Ready

The biggest caution I can offer to authors before you publish is to be aware of companies that ask for print ready material. How can an author possibly know what print ready means and what the industry standards are for distributors? Shouldn't the publisher (the expert) be incharge of such important part of publishing a book? If a publisher ask you to provide orint ready material, run don't walk away from that company or all you will be printing is paper weights that distributors will laugh at.