Use the following guidelines and our template downloads to send your artwork to us in the correct way.
Following these guidelines ensures that there will be no delays with printing your order, if you need any assitance please contact us.
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 a high setting)
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")
Include all embedded images and convert all text to curves.
Save as an Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) file.
Resolution set to 300dpi when creating a new document
Save file as either tiff or jpeg
Other files not listed must be saved either as an eps or jpg.
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).
We cannot use the following formats for printing: -
Word
Excel
Publisher
Powerpoint
Works
Use this link for a free to use website that can convert any of the above files into a useable pdf, it is pretty straight forward and will do it for you right there online.
Please note that it is important when supplying a PDF from a Microsoft document, care is taken to ensure any spot colours are created correctly in your original document.
Please supply a screen shot of your Microsoft document before conversion this can be done by the following: -
For PC operators there is a button on the keyboard labelled PRINT SCREEN or PrtScn, alternatively use the Snipping Tool in later versions of Windows.
For Mac operators press apple, shift 4, highlight the area you wish to copy which then saves a png copy to your desktop.
Following these guidelines ensures that there will be no delays with printing your order, if you need any assitance please contact us.
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 a high setting)
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")
Include all embedded images and convert all text to curves.
Save as an Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) file.
Resolution set to 300dpi when creating a new document
Save file as either tiff or jpeg
Other files not listed must be saved either as an eps or jpg.
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).
We cannot use the following formats for printing: -
Word
Excel
Publisher
Powerpoint
Works
Use this link for a free to use website that can convert any of the above files into a useable pdf, it is pretty straight forward and will do it for you right there online.
Please note that it is important when supplying a PDF from a Microsoft document, care is taken to ensure any spot colours are created correctly in your original document.
Please supply a screen shot of your Microsoft document before conversion this can be done by the following: -
For PC operators there is a button on the keyboard labelled PRINT SCREEN or PrtScn, alternatively use the Snipping Tool in later versions of Windows.
For Mac operators press apple, shift 4, highlight the area you wish to copy which then saves a png copy to your desktop.
