Artwork
We want your printing to go as smoothly as possible so we’ve set the following guidelines to ensure that there will be no delays.
If you have any problems or need artwork designing from scratch, don't hesitate to contact us, we will be more than willing to help.
Indesign
Please ensure all fonts and pictures used in your artwork is supplied to us in a separate folder using the “package” function under the “file” menu. Compress the document using stuffit or winzip before uploading.
Please supply a screen shot of the artwork or a PDF. This is for our reference to make sure that nothing is missing or moved on the artwork when supplying
Quark Express
Please ensure all fonts and pictures used in your artwork is supplied to us in a separate folder using the “collect for output” function under the “file” menu. Compress the document using stuffit or winzip before uploading.
Please supply a screen shot of the artwork or a PDF. This is for our reference to make sure that nothing is missing or moved on the artwork when supplying
PDF Files
We request all our artwork to be supplied as high resolution (300dpi).It is important that you prepare your PDF file in the correct way. There are options which must be set for commercial printing
- Resolution (Choose High Resolution)
- Compression Settings (for colour and greyscale should be down sampled to 300dpi (with “auto compression” set on high.)
- Font Embedding (should be set to “embed all fonts”)
Colour needs to be set as CMYK not RGB
Illustrator
Include all embedded images and convert all text to curves. Save as a eps file.
Photoshop
- Resolution Set to 300dpi when starting your new document. Save file as either tiff or jpeg
Other files not listed above must be saved either as an eps of jpeg. Please note if you require for us to make changes to your file (jpeg / eps), we would require you to re-supply new artwork as either a PSD, PDF or AI files as we are unable to make changes to flattered images (jpeg/ eps / tiff)
Artwork Bleed
It is essential that there is a 3mm bleed around your artwork, save your artwork as any of the above formats example (A6 111 X 154.50) This is for cutting purposes.
Please ensure that when setting the colour it is set to CMYK not RGB.