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The following information must accompany your artwork:
  • Company name
  • File type (i.e. Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
  • Account Executive name
  • Contact person name and phone number
  • Please include "Client Artwork - (Client Name)" in the subject header
 
Hard copy artwork is Camera Ready if:
  • Correct size
  • Crisp clean black and white line art, requiring no touch-ups
 
Hard copy artwork is NOT Camera Ready if:
  • Full color
  • Photo copied or faxed
  • Business card, stationery or newsprint
  • Smudged, soiled, bent or torn
  • Contains any halftones or graytones
 
ELECTRONIC ARTWORK REQUIREMENTS:
 

We use Mac platform-Mac OS X - 10.3.7
We accept art on: Zip disks, CDs, and e-mail (contact us for larger than 10MB email)

  
   
ACCEPTABLE ART FORMATS:
  • TIFF, BMP, EPS
  • Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) (created in Illustrator*)
  • Adobe Illustrator 11 or earlier (preferred)
  • Freehand MX 2004 or earlier
  • PDF (if created in Illustrator)
 
UNACCEPTABLE PROGRAMS AND FORMATS:
  • Microsoft Publisher, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Paint
  • Word Perfect or any other word processing software
  • Corel Draw (must be exported as an .ai or .wps file)
  • JPEG, .jpg (web image) - Unusable - resolution too low
  • GIF, .gif (web image) - Unusable - resolution too low
  • PDF (unless PDF is created in Illustrator)
  • Any web images - Unusable - resolution too low
  • Any program not mentioned above
Adobe Illustrator CS
  • Please Note: Photographic or placed images are NOT suitable to our factories' printing process. If you place or embed JPEG, TIFF, GIF or PSD images into a vector art program, this does not change them into a vector image by doing so. Please convert all fonts to outlines.
    
       
         
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