Digital Art
We accept files created in the following programs:
- Adobe Illustrator up to 10.0 (version 8.0 preferred)
- Macromedia Freehand (any version) exported/saved as EPS
- CorelDraw! (any version) only if file is exported as “Adobe Illustrator EPS,” highest version
- supported, with “type as curves” selected
- Adobe PhotoShop up to 5.5
- Adobe PageMaker 6.0 or 6.5
Camera-Ready Art
When acceptable digital art is not available, camera-ready hard art reduces (and sometimes eliminates) art charges, and helps to ensure a satisfactory imprint. Read the requirements below:
Camera ready art IS:
- Complete, at actual imprint size, requiring no touch-ups, changes, or typesetting
- Same as above, requiring minimal re-sizing
- Complete layouts, not pieces requiring assembly
- Crisp line art or properly registered separations printed in black to a laser printer on smooth white paper (not photocopier paper) at 600 dpi or greater, unfolded
- film positives or negatives
- repro paper, PMTs or “slicks”
Camera-ready art IS NOT:
- Anything requiring changes, typesetting or color separating
- Graphics or photographs you found displayed on a website
- Inferior quality art that has been re-sampled or re-sized, then printed in an otherwise acceptable way
- Ink-jet printer or dot-matrix printer output
- Photocopies, textured paper, faxes, photographs, newsprint, business cards
- Very small but otherwise clean art requiring substantial enlargement (>200%)
- Full-color output of any kind, or halftones (dot patterns) printed on paper or film
- Any composite (non-separated) multicolored item printed as grays
- Cloth, art printed with metallic inks or foils, textured inks, raised lettering
- Rough hand-drawn art (unless that’s how you want it to look)
- Anything stapled, folded, paper-clipped, taped or written on
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