PREPARING ARTWORK

File Setup

• Colour format: CMYK not RGB
• Print resolution: 300ppi minimum
• Bleed: Files should bleed 0.125" on each edge or 0.25" on either axis
• Borders: We recommend against using borders
• Rich Black: A rich black of 40%Cyan, 10% Magenta, 10% Yellow and 100% process black should be used for large black areas. Do not use for text or gradients
• Files must be supplied one up with a separate file for the front and back
• Large files should be compressed with Win zip or Stuff it before sending

Other Artwork Requirements

  Preparing Artwork for Bleed

  Preparing Artwork for Large Format

   Preparing Artwork for Plastic Cards

  Preparing Artwork in Adobe Photoshop

  Preparing Artwork in Corel Draw

Artwork Templates

   EPS Tempaltes

Compression & Delivery Utilities

Acrobat

Stuffit

Winzip

Preferred File Formats for Mac or PC

• EPS with text converted to outlines or curves
• PDF
• TIFF (high resolution)
• JPEG (high resolution)

Accepted Native Files
Note that native files must contain all linking images and fonts.

 
Mac

• Quark XPress 6.5 or lower
• Adobe Acrobat 7 or lower
• Adobe Illustrator CS5 or lower
• Adobe Photoshop CS5 or lower
• Adobe Indesign CS5 or lower
• Adobe Pagemaker 7 or lower
• Corel Draw 12 or lower

PC

• Quark XPress 6.5 or lower
• Adobe Acrobat 7 or lower
• Adobe Illustrator CS5 or lower
• Adobe Photoshop CS5 or lower
• Adobe Indesign CS5 or lower
• Adobe Pagemaker 7 or lower
• Corel Draw 12 or lower