Product Range

Art Work Specs

Listed below are the specifications for your electronic artwork. We recommend that you follow these guidelines in order to keep your costs down, as well as, eliminate any problems when your job is printed.
Accepted File Formats

  • Illustrator
  • Freehand
  • Photoshop TIFF / BMP / JPEG / EPS
  • LineArt / Bitmap 1200 dpi, Colour / Greyscale 300 dpi
  • Corel Draw -  Export files as Illustrator 3.0 files - extension .ai . Use the convert text to curves option. Remove all bitmaps before exporting and send bitmap files separately along with laser printouts showing correct positioning. Also indicate the scale of the placed bitmap.
Not Accepted

We can not accept publishing or office software such as Adobe Pagemaker,  Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Excel etc. 

QuarkXPress (including EPS files exported from Quark) can be accepted only for offset printed applications. Please check with us first
Software Compatibility

Mac: Macintosh is the preferred
Accepted Disk Formats

3.5 inch diskettes, 100 mb Iomega Zip disks or CD. Other disk types will be subject to a conversion cost. Always send a copy of your files, do not send us your original files.

Original Art/Scans

Please include placed graphics and photographs on your disk. Scan resolution should be a minimum of 250 dpi at final scale.
Type Specs

4.5 pt. minimum. Avoid fine reverse type. Avoid process builds on type less than 12 pt.

Fonts

Include all fonts used in your artwork on disk. Where Postscript fonts have been used include both printer and screen fonts. We recommend Sanserif fonts for small type (4.5 to 7 pt.)

Image Area

Maintain 1.5mm margin from dieline for all art, unless it is an intentional bleed.

Color Specifications

Specify required PMS numbers on spot color artwork.
Color Separations

Before sending your disk to us for output, please ensure that you print out ALL separations to your laser and check that each separation shows the intended art.

Screens/Tints/Gradients

Screens may range from 100 percent to a minimum of 4 percent. Any values that run below 4 percent may not reproduce correctly and will deteriorate the quality of your print job.

Trapping

Black: Set to overprint all colors.
Colors: All traps should be set to a minimum of .5 pt. Remember to spread the lighter color into the darker color.

Lines/Rules

Minimum setting .5 pt. When printing negative (reverse) lines/rules .75 pt is the minimum recommended.

Bleed

Standard 2mm beyond the dieline or cropmarks.