Print Ready File Format
Our preferred format for accepting artwork is a high-resolution PDF.
Bleed
All artwork MUST include 3mm bleed past its final trim size on all four sides of the artwork.
A bleed is an area of your image that is outside the final cut of your printed piece. It is used to extend an image, color or line beyond the artwork edge, which enables us to cut the finished product without leaving a white line. For example, if you want your background to be entirely blue, you must bleed the blue color an 3mm past the edge of the final size of your background. This prevents a white line down one or more edges of your print, caused by very slight variations in die-cutting and trimming which can be ±1mm.
Colors
Files must be set up as CMYK for colors to print accurately. Files that are sent to us using RGB, Pantone, or spot colors will be automatically converted to CMYK which may cause some changes to your colors.
Resolution
Files, including any images, need to be at least 300 dpi to print clearly, otherwise, images may appear bitmapped, fuzzy, distorted or pixilated. Most images found on the internet are 72 dpi and are generally not suitable for professional printing. For Large format, digital printing resolution can be lower than 300dpi due to the bigger size of artworks, for example, Roll up banner should be 100-150dpi, billboard 50-72dpi.
Fonts
Please embed or convert to vectors all fonts used in your document before sending your final artwork.If we don’t have the font you have used, it may be automatically substituted for an alternative font in case you didn’t embed it.
Font Size
For acceptable legibility, the text should be no smaller than 6 points.
Please check all links are embedded or, if using InDesign, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P will create a package with your links and fonts. However, we would prefer if you would send us an exported PDF (Ctrl+E).
RGB Images
In some cases, we receive artwork that contains images in the RGB color mode. RGB stands for Red Green Blue. This is a color scheme that is used only in viewing images on the screen. This color process has a wider range of color possibilities that cannot be achieved by conventional CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) printing. Particularly, vibrant blues and greens in RGB are often not very transferable to CMYK. If you submit images in RGB color, we will notify you and give you the option to convert them yourselves.
JPG Formats
We do not suggest having your images saved as JPG or GIF formats. These employ compression schemes that reduce image quality. We suggest that you use uncompressed TIFF or EPS formats.
