Art Instructions

The following procedures will help explain the art formats that help us give

your company a great quality and service when you submit your artwork.

•Paint reproduction: For art that will be painted on a product, the artwork must be in a vector file such as Illustrator.eps, Freehand.eps, Corel.cdr, camera ready artwork, or black and white slicks.

• For a high resolution image, the image has to be created or scanned at a high resolution. If the image starts with a low resolution, it can not be changed to a high resolution latter on. If a low resolution file is increased in size the image will get distorted.

•Layout Artwork: Art used for layouts or graphic samples can be supplied as an .eps,.jpg, .bmp, or .pict files.

ppi: Pixels per inch, also called "dpi" (dots per inch)

vector: vector formats are images in geometric separate shapes such as curves or polygons, as the size increases the program recalculates each piece kipping the proportion and the resolution intact for a crisp image.

raster:  A raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data file representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels. If you increase the size of the image the program puts more blank pixels in the image making the image blurred or distorted.  Raster graphics cannot be scaled to a higher resolution without loss of apparent quality. Raster files are .bpm, .jpg, .tiff, ,psd, and ,pict.

• All files must be saved in Corel Draw 11 or earlier,  Adobe  Illustrator 10 or earlier, or .EPS format .

• All art and fonts must be vectorized and created in   outlines or curves.

• Multiple color jobs should be created using spot color mode  rather than process color mode.

•All colors should be labeled with the Pantone Matching System (PMS).

• Include all EPS and Tiff files used in creating your   document.

•If files have half tones or gradients, please label it with PMS  colors or save resolution to 25-30 dpi.

• When creating artwork, remember that our printing  process may require the "trapping" of colors on multi-color  jobs.

•Avoid .tif, .bmp, .gif and .jpg files. Extra art time will be   required to edit these files . (These files can be sent   but   may require additional art setup and charges).

• Do not email files larger than 3 MB. Large files should   be compressed by using Winzip  or saved to a zip disk then mailed or shipped to us.

•Convert all fonts to paths or curves. (Text converted to paths can no longer be edited as text.)  Without this done we may not have the correct font and your work will not be correct.