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Artwork

Please ensure all artwork for print is supplied in line with these specifications.

Artwork received that is not in line with these specifications may be subject to amendment charges. We cannot accept responsibility for print errors or late deliveries where artwork has been supplied incorrectly.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us here.

Telephone: 01302 719137.

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FILE FORMAT

Please send all print ready artwork to artwork@expertprint.co.uk.

When it comes to supplying your artwork, we would prefer to receive the following files.

• PDF
• Indesign
• Quark
• Publisher
• Word
• Illustrator
• Photoshop

It is essential that there is a 3mm bleed around your artwork. This is crucial to ensure your printing is finished correctly. Please ensure that when setting the colour it is set to CMYK not RGB.

Artwork Guidelines

Indesign

Please ensure all fonts and pictures used in your artwork are supplied to us in a separate folder using the “package” function under the “file” menu. Compress the document using stuffit or winzip before uploading. Please supply a screen shot of the artwork or a PDF. This is for our reference to make sure that nothing is missing or moved on the artwork when supplying .

Quark Express

Please ensure all fonts and pictures used in your artwork are supplied to us in a separate folder using the “collect for output” function under the “file” menu. Compress the document using stuffit or winzip before uploading. Please supply a screen shot of the artwork or a PDF. This is for our reference to make sure that nothing is missing or moved on the artwork.

PDF

We request all our artwork to be supplied as high resolution (300dpi). It is important that you prepare your PDF file in the correct way. There are options which must be set for commercial printing:

• Resolution (Choose High Resolution).
• Compression Settings (for colour and greyscale should be down sampled to 300dpi (with “auto compression” set on high).
• Font Embedding (should be set to “embed all fonts”).
• Colour needs to be set as CMYK not RGB.

Illustrator

Include all embedded images and convert all text to curves. Save as a eps file.

Photoshop

• Resolution Set to 300dpi when starting your new document
• Save file as either .tiff, .jpeg or .pdf.

Other files not listed above must be saved either as an eps of jpeg. Please note if you require for us to make changes to your file (jpeg / eps), we would require you to re-supply new artwork as either a PSD, PDF or AI files as we are unable to make changes to flattered images (jpeg/ eps / tiff).