Technical details
In this section you'll find resources and information to help you get the best out of your printed materials. Here you can identify maximum page sizes and find out how to set up artwork ready for print. There's also a plant list. If you have any questions or just want to talk through your ideas, please contact us.
Artwork files accepted
- Adobe PDF
- Adobe Indesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Quark Xpress
- Freehand
- Corel Draw
Adobe PDF
Adobe PDF's are our prefered choice. For best results please enquire about our Distiller options set that is tailored for our RIP that is available for Distiller and Indesign, which we can provide. In other cases, please use the highest resolution distilling options file available, and ensure that under Images, all downsampling is off. This will preserve all possible image data but will consequently make a larger file. Also ensure that all fonts used are set to embed. Ensure that PDF includes bleeds of 3mm if required, is produced in the centre of chosen paper size, and is set to the correct colour space, ie CMYK or spot Pantones or a combination of both. Any cutting lines or non-printing guides must be set in a spot colour and set to overprint throughout. Image data must be minimum 300 ppi for CMYK and Grayscale, and 600ppi for lineart.
Please export file to PDF with highest settings available (no compression) in centre of chosen paper size. Ensure bleeds present and included. Please ensure you supply in a format that can be split into individual pages for printing imposition.
