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- Lineart & solid color fields should be printed using spot colors
- Photographic images print best in process colors.
- CMYK values on process jobs should be strong (pastels tend to look washed out when screenprinted)
- Spot color screenprints look best when 100% values of pantone colors are utilized. Values below 100% may result in moire, banding & dot gain.
- As a rule, gradients should be used very sparingly as they will not print as clean as they look on screen. If gradients are utilized you should expect some level of dot gain & banding to occur.
- Metallic colors are available but are more expensive due to curing issues.
Below are our standard prepress guidelines. Following these will help ensure that your job gets through the preflight process and into production quickly. Artwork that does not meet these requirements may incur addiitional charges and delay the delivery timeframe. To further streamline the process please utilize one of our many graphic templates and consult our Ultra-Fast Turn guidelines. If you have any questions, please give us a call between 8am-5pm EST and ask for the PrePress Dept. or Contact Us Here.
General Artwork Specifications
Artwork should be supplied (at size) in industry standard formats (Quark Xpress, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop). Source Art is always preferred in order to have the flexibility to match colors across different substrates. All elements with spot color match requirements should be assigned Pantone #s and all images must be in CMYK, Duotone or Greyscale format (300dpi at print size). Please also include all fonts and linked images in either a winzip or stuffit archive (.zip, .sit) before uploading to our server. Fonts that are not protected in a zip or sit archive will be unusable after FTP. If you must send a PDF, please be sure it is generated using the "Press" settings in Acrobat Distiller with 0.125" bleed, cropmarks, CMYK format with Euroscale Coated ICC Profile, overprint black and all fonts embedded. If you are designing your layout in photoshop, please be sure to include a layered file in case edits are needed.
Digital Offset Print Specifications
Bleed: 1/8"
ICC Profile: Euroscale Coated
Minimum Resolution: 300dpi at size
Minimum Font Size: 4pts for Overprint Text, 5pts for Knockout Text
Minimum Line Weight: 0.4pts
Maximum Print Area (including bleed & crops):11.7 x 17.2
CD & DVD ScreenPrint Specifications
Bleed: none
Size: Varying Centerholes & Radius (see templates).
ICC Profile: Euroscale Coated
Trap: 0.4 pts
Minimum Resolution: 300dpi at size
Minimum Font Size: 5pts for Overprint Text, 6pts for knockout text
Minimum Line Weight: 0.5pts
Large Format Print Specifications
Bleed: 1/4"
ICC Profile: HP Indigo Press 5000
Resolution: 150dpi at size (depends on how far sign will be viewed from)
Maximum Print Area (including bleed & crops):41" x 50 Feet
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