Providing our customers with top quality print products is our number one priority. To make the most of our industry-leading digital presses, it's important that our customer's artwork meets a few requirements. Please take a minute to read through these guidelines. If you don't understand something, fear not! We'll review your files and suggest changes for free, or simply answer questions over email or phone. Feel free to contact us anytime!
Artwork Guidelines
- Artwork should be the correct size for your finished product. Changing the size of finished artwork lowers the quality of the printed piece.
- Artwork also needs extra space around the edges called "bleeds" that give us room to cut away extra material. Typically bleeds are 1/8 inch.
- Important text or images should not be too close to the edges of the finished piece. On most smaller pieces, a 1/8 inch "safe zone" is fine. Larger pieces such as newsletters or flyers typically look better with a 1/4 inch safe zone.
- Artwork should be high resolution! 300 DPI looks great on our machines.
- Photos and logos pulled from web pages typically don't look so great in print- they've been compressed. Use original images in your design.
- If a graphic designer created your company's logo, they should have provided you with a high resolution file. Use these whenever possible.