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Send us your artwork via email. CLICK HERE
Please take the time to read below before you send us your artwork.
There are many different formats in which you can send artwork, and we want to help you in having our best information available.
ACCEPTABLE FORMATS:
SCALABLE VECTOR FORMATS
.ai
(ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR NATIVE FORMAT)
.eps
(UNIVERSAL FORMAT - Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop Electronic Post-Script format)
.pdf
(UNIVERSAL FORMAT - Portable Document format - when saved out appropriately)
*Vector art files must have ALL FONTS CONVERTED TO OUTLINE PATHS or include ACTUAL FONT FILE with artwork.
CLICK HERE for a visual.
RASTER ART FILES:
.tif
(300 to 600 DPI / 6"x6" or larger resolution)
.jpg
(300 to 600 DPI / 6"x6" or larger resolution)
.psd
(300 to 600 DPI / 6"x6" or larger resolution)
THE LARGER THE RESOLUTION, THE BETTER.
NOT ACCEPTABLE -
May required additional ARTWORK CHARGES if art files listed below are sent.
.doc
.gif
.bmp
All art files must be accompanied by or include (**PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM) PMS COLORS FOR IMPRINT.
**PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM -
www.pantone.com:
A popular color matching system commonly used by the printing industry to print spot colors. Most applications that support color printing that allow you to specify colors by indicating the Pantone name or number. This assures that you get the right color when the file is printed, even though the color may not look right when displayed on your monitor.
How to deal with certain file types
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VECTOR FILES
Usually this is a file that can be produced with programs like Adobe® Illustrator®, or Macromedia® Freehand® and the like.
Vector is a file that is scalable larger or smaller, without losing its quality.
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RASTER FILES
This type of file is a "flattened" file that can only be scaled down, or shrunken to a smaller size.
To scale a file like this to a larger size, it may result in a "fuzzy" or "blown-out" quality look to it.
This is not recommended. Remember, you can make these files only smaller, not bigger.
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PDF FILES
If you make artwork in a program like Adobe® Illustrator®, you can export, or "save" it out as several different file formats.
.ai, .eps, and .pdf are among them.
When Exporting out of Illustrator, make sure you save whatever file you working on with the .ai extension first. Then take that file, and choose to save as - again - as a .pdf.
There are all kinds of settings, but it's okay to go with default settings on this - only for vector pdf's though.
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Please click the thumbnails below to see a visual.
(Screenshots provided by a Macintosh machine, but settings should be similiar.)
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