PROGRAMMES TO USE :

Improper files for press might delay your project and also affects the total cost. Please follow the guidelines given here to prepare your files.

Prepare your page layout in a program such as QuarkXPress, InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker or a graphics program such as CorelDRAW.

Prepare company logo in vector format in a Draw program like Illustrator, CorelDRAW or Freehand. Save these images as EPS files import them into the page layout.

Prepare your photographic images (scans or digital camera images) in programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel PhotoPaint. Save these images as EPS, TIFF or JPG files and import them into the page layout.

How Should I prepare the file for submission ?

In your page layout program, make the page size equal to the trim size of the final piece. Do not make a bigger page and draw your own "crop marks" or "printer's marks".

Use only alphanumeric characters (abc, ABC, 123, etc.) to name your files and folders. Do not use characters such as *, ?, /, \, :, ~, @, #, &, etc.

Create all the pages of your project within a single file in your layout program. Do not create a separate file for each page. In multi-page files, arrange the pages in numerical sequence. Do not create "printer's spreads". Do not "gang" or "impose" a number of pages together into one big page.

PRE-PRESS : From your CD or e-mailed file or file on our FTP server, our pre-press department is ready to work on your files. Your files then provided to our integrated Heidelberg pre-press workflow for the productions rule check and trapping. We have ability to provide you with Hi-res EPSON 9600 proof and to produce the press plates in our new Heidelberg Prosetter computer-to-plate system. Using computer-to-plate system we have already realized.

MAINTAIN BLEED : Graphic objects or backgrounds that print to the edge of the page should be made to extend 1/8" (0.125") beyond the edge of the page in the layout. The overlapping 1/8" will be trimmed off, but if it's not there in the first place, slight inaccuracies in cutting could leave a thin white border along one or more edges of the page.

BE IN SAFE PRINTING AREA : Keep all text at least ¼" (0.25") away from the edges of the page.