To help with the preparation of your artwork here are a few topics that will provide information on some of the issues that may arise.

If you cannot find what you need to know here, or need more information on any of the listed topics, please contact us.

Layout
Most of our products follow standard 'A' paper sizes. Please supply artwork as a 'one up'. i.e. provide one business card on a 90 x 50mm or 85 x 55mm page or one A4 leaflet on a 210 x 297 page.

Bleed
Images, background colours and fills which are intended to extend to the edge of the page should be extended 3mm beyond the page to give a bleed. Text, boxes and other areas you need on your finished job should sit 5mm in from the edges of the page.

Scans and Images
Images should be provided at a minimum of 300dpi size for size and saved in CMYK format not RGB. TIFF file formats are preferred but we also accept images in many other formats including JPEG and EPS. Care should be taken when providing images in other formats as compression may be used that will reduce final quality.

Colour
We recommend the use of Pantone® Colour swatches rather than relying on screen colours.

Fonts
We use all the most popular Mac and PC fonts, please confirm at the time of ordering. Ideally, dependent on softwaree, convert all fonts to outline before sending your artwork.

Media
We can accept files created in a huge range of both Mac and PC based software, and saved on a wide range of media, click here to view software and media formats we supportIf you wish to produce your own artwork we can accept files produced using any of the following software programs

Adobe Illustrator CS

Adobe Photoshop CS

Adobe InDesign CS

Adobe Acrobat

Quark Xpress 6

Microsoft Publisher 2003

Macromedia Freehand

Corel Draw 11

Microsoft Office