• Documents should be the exact finished size with .312 margin on all sides.
• Bleeds should be at least 1/8” beyond the document, but text should stay within the .312 margin.
• Color all text and graphics using process CMYK and place graphics at 100%. After placing each graphic into a document, please don’t change the graphic’s name. Changing the name causes problems when we try to output your file to print it. Send along all supporting or linked files.
• Collect for output and include fonts.
• The default Red, Green, Blue colors should not be used.

• Text can be copied and pasted into our Quark document, but all formatting will be lost. Please include a hard copy for us to follow, as we will have to redo the formatting.
• Include all clipart and photos as separate images, (tif, eps, or jpeg)

• When creating your files, please create one item per document.
•  “Create Outlines” on ALL text.
• If you’re using an imported graphic in your illustrator document, be sure to include the graphic file with your document.
• Please place all graphics at 100%
• Color all text and graphics using process CMYK. All placed graphics must also be CMYK. Please be sure to send along any placed graphics.
• Clip-art saved as EPS.

• Please scan photos using at least 300 dpi at the size needed for placing at 100%.
• Use CMYK, not RGB, (If RGB colors are used in your files, the necessary conversion to CMYK will change the appearance of the colors, usually dramatically, when printed.)
• B&W Photographs should be saved as Grayscale .tif images
• If bleeds are needed, allow 1/8” for the bleed per side.
• The files should be saved as a Macintosh® TIFF with LZW compression. (Using LZW compression will cut the memory size of your file by more than half.)

• JPEGS are okay, provided they are of a very high resolution, a very high quality setting, and a large document size.  “JPEG format relies on lossy compression, which selectively removes data”.

• PLEASE INCLUDE HARD COPY PROOFS at 100% size.
• Multiple page jobs should be created in 1 document with multiple pages, not multiple documents with single pages.
• Do not use a predefined hairline width rule in any applications.
• Specific Pantone Spot Colors that will be used for printing should be designated within the layout program. If the job is to be printed full color, a CMYK color should be made and used. If a pantone color is printed CMYK, a color shift will occur.  Any unused colors should be eliminated from the color pallet.

• You may select us to make the required changes or you may make them yourself.
• There will be a $45.00/ hour charge for any changes we make or a $10.00 minimum.

PROOFS

• WE WILL NOT PRINT THIS PRODUCT WITHOUT YOUR APPROVAL SIGNATURE!
• By signing off, you agree to take responsibility for the accuracy, content and layout of the product ordered.