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Our production is a reflection of your company. We want to ensure your identity is nice, clean, and consistent. For the BEST reasons, we list our requirements for submitting artwork below. The most common obstacle we have to overcome in order to print your logo on items is having too low of a resolution file to successfully print your item. You can always make a large image smaller without losing quality, you usually can not make a small image larger as needed for printing without losing quality or causing pixelation (rough edges). Please read below for exact requirements.
Image Programs In Order of Preference :
Adobe Illustrator 9+ (recommend saved as vector art)
Adobe Photoshop 6+ (.psd /.eps format)
Macromedia Freehand 8+ (Type must be converted to "curves" and file exported to "Adobe Illustrator EPS" format)
Other Programs - Save artwork as .eps format
(Files write by other programs, please convert them to adobe formats)
Adobe Illustrator - Macintosh or IBM Compatible
1. Change all text into "outlines" in your document.
2. Color your text and graphics with standard Pantone or CMYK color mixes.
3. If you are using an imported graphic in your Illustrator document, be sure to include the original graphic file. Place graphics at 100%.
4. Save the file as an Illustrator AI or EPS, selecting version 6.0 or higher when given the option. BEST version 9.0
Adobe Photoshop - Macintosh or IBM Compatible
1. Files must be saved as a Macintosh TIFF with no LZW compression.
2. Please submit black and white bitmap images at 600 dpi or higher.
3. Images that come to us at lower resolutions than what is recommended will be output as sent. We can not raise the resolution successfully
4. Color all text and graphics according to standard Pantone or CMYK color mixes in a layout application.
5. All files need to be submitted at the size being used for printing.
Remarks:
Fonts
If you are using a special font, it is critical that you include the font when sending your artwork, you may select the font by finding it in your font directory and saving it to your desktop, then attach it with your artwork when sending. If you use the Style palette to modify your font, it must be converted to outlines, or saved as a rasterized flat layer image.
File Sizes
All Files must be a minimum of 350 dpi (Dots Per Inch). Do not use webpage photo for artwork, it is not possible to have a normal result. Please make sure you communicate with your designer for the original large version of the image. Some customers experience problems e-mailing large files due to their mail servers file size limits, you may feel free to use our FTP to upload your artwork(s) to our server.
Pls contact us for FTP server informations.
Please send all graphics sized at 100%.