Design Department

Our design team will help you to create the perfect brochure, poster, leaflet or business card, offering specialist advice and/or bespoke artwork to ensure your requirements are met.

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Supplying your own artwork

When supplying artwork, please include a hard copy with both composite and colour separations. Highlight any critical print positions, perforations, numbering, folds, etc.

If sending your file(s) by email, you must supply a PDF proof of both the composite file and separations.

 

Supplied artwork formats

We advise that supplied artwork is generated in the following design programs; Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Quark Xpress and Acrobat.

When supplying artwork the files should be saved in a PDF, EPS, TIFF, or JPEG format. Alternatively a Mac generated open application file can be supplied.

 

Fonts

List all fonts used within your layout and EPS artwork supplied. If your work is Mac based, include all your fonts with the art file. Remember to include all components (screen and printer fonts). If a different font is used, line lengths and line breaks could be affected and the layout of the page may alter. If position is critical, indicate that fact on the hard copy and convert the fonts to outlines before sending us the file. This will ensure exact placement according to your specifications.

 

Images/Colour

When supplying artwork; scan the line art at 600 dpi or higher for optimum quality printing. All greyscale or colour images should be saved at 300 dpi (150 lpi) and should be imported at 100. Rotate, scale and crop images before importing into your layout. Images for four colour process jobs must be saved as CMYK tiff or EPS format; images for inkjet output should be saved as RGB. Do not use Pantone or similar colours unless pre-arranged for specialist jobs.

 

Set Up

Files should be supplied including a 3mm bleed on each side. Print will be returned at the finished sizes. Please ensure all artwork supplied is centred within the document page. Please ensure no excess artwork remains on the art board.

A5 finished size: 210mm x 148mm, with bleed = 216mm x 154mm

A6 finished size: 148mm x 105mm, with bleed = 154mm x 111mm

A6 long finished size: 210mm x 74mm, with bleed = 216mm x 80mm

A7 finished size: 105mm x 74mm, with bleed = 111mm x 80mm

DL finished size: 210mm x 99mm, with bleed = 216mm x 105mm

Square finished size: 99mm x 99mm, with bleed = 105mm x 105mm

Credit Card finished size: 85mm x 55mm,with bleed = 91mm x 61mm

 

Imposition and folding

All artwork supplied that requires a particular imposition or folding must be accompanied by printed proof that is imposed and folded as required.

 

Resolution

All non-vector artwork should be supplied at a minimum of 300 dpi. Any artwork supplied lower than 300 dpi will be blurred when printed. EPS and Illustrator files should have the final output set to 2540. PDFs should be set with an overall resolution of 2540, individual line art resolution of 1200 dpi and individual bitmap resolution of 300 dpi.