ARTWORK SUBMISSION

1.What is Camera Ready Artwork?

2. What file types can we accept?

3. Why do you need a high-resolution image?

4. Can I e-mail artwork to you?

5. My artwork file is too big to email! What should I do?

1.To avoid an art charge, camera-ready artwork must be supplied. Camera-ready artwork is high quality black and white (B&W) artwork that is ready to be processed by us to be used for printing. If the design is multi-colored, a separate B&W image is required for each color.

Camera-ready artwork is not: Photocopies of any type A fax Business cards or other printed items Dirty Artwork (smudges or marks) Continuous tone images; i.e., B&W and color photographs We will accept artwork supplied to us by the above methods, but an art charge will be applied
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2. File Types

Images in vector format such as files created in CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, etc., are the preferred file types and in most cases we will not charge an art charge if you send your artwork in this format. You may alternatively supply us with a high quality digital image (150 _ 200 dpi at actual print size) that has been separated into different layers or channels in a program such as Adobe Photoshop and no art charge will be applied. Do not use "anti-aliasing" if at all possible. Anti-aliasing blends the edges of text and other objects to make them appear softer on screen, but cannot be reproduced in monotone printing.

In order of preference, here is a list of file types we will accept for artwork. We use the versions listed and we can use files created by older versions as well:

CorelDraw 9_ *.cdr, *.cmx Adobe Illustrator 8, 9, 10 _ *.ai, *.eps Adobe Photoshop 6.0 _ *.psd *.tif *.gif *.jpg