*artwork tips
*templates
ARTWORK
GUIDELINES .
- ARTWORK MASTERS: Must be presented on CDR,
If presenting multiple jobs please provide separate CDR's for each job as
this is how they must be presented to the factory. We do not accept film,
all art is now sent digitally to plates. We do accept online submission of
files but NOT as email attachments. Please send via ftp (we do not provide
one) or other digital transferal method.
- LAYERS: Please keep template layers and artwork
layers separate, measurement layers should not be flattened onto the final
file as these measurements should not appear on the final printed job
- RESOLUTION: 300 dpi , no ifs buts or maybes.
- PAPERPARTS: All paper parts MUST have the following
- 3 mm bleed all round
- 3 mm clear zone that is no text or image should be placed closer than 3mm
to any trim or fold
- correct imposition ie: printers pairs
- FONTS: Must be converted to outlines or rasterised.
- LINE THICKNESS: 0.6pt or above
- DISCART: please remember when designing your
discart designs that you are in fact printing onto a silver surface, not white
paper! therefore all white areas in your design will appear as disc silver
when printed. Some people like this effect if you don't you must specify that
you require a white base (flat colour printed before CMYK offset process)
on your purchase order.
- DIGITAL PROOFING: All artwork must be accompanied
by high quality digital proofing. That means to scale, full colour, hardcopy
representations of all artwork. This is essential and allows our printers
to colour match to your desired result. A digital proof is defined by a printout
from a high end printer that uses vector and pixel based imaging when outputting
(preferably from a stand alone RIP). All jobs presented that don't adhere
to the above (i.e laser prints) cannot be guaranteed for colour matching purposes.
Such laser prints must be accompanied with an indemnity letter stating you
are aware that your proofing is not sufficient for strict colourmatching and
your aware variances in colour may occur. If for some reason you job arrives
here without proofing we can provide proofs for an additional $20 per page
but will not guarantee any aspect of the print job as really you should be
the one printing and approving such things as we can't second guess your intentions.
- BLEED, REGISTRATION MARKS & TRIM
MARKS: All templates avaialable below have these , please do not delete
or cover them if possible. Leave any dieline layers as seaparate to art layer.
- FILENAMES: Please name your files so they can
be easily identified, for instance when designing a 4 panel booklet name you
files like so MYJOBNAME PAGES 4 AND 1, MYJOBNAME PAGES 2 AND 3, MYJOBNAME
PAGES OUTER INLAY & MYJOBNAME PAGES INNER INLAY etc all.
- SPOT COLOURS: If your design uses flat colours
you may achieve a better result by supplying your art as SPOT PMS colours.
Unless your familiar with these we recommend that you simply supply as cmyk
.If you know what your doing supply channels with clearly specified PMS pantone
codes for each colour and don't forget to stipulate this on your purchase
order and the order in which you would like them printed. Metallic and fluro
colours must be supplied in this way and may attract a surcharge for press
setup time.
- ORIENTATION: please consider
the orientation of your art, especially when producing art for the dualplover
cardboard sleeves or digipaks. Printout a mock and fold it checking that all
images face the way you intend.
- INSTRUCTIONS: When outlining your intent art
wise please resort to paper (we need a purchase
order) we will not read text files hidden within the art master
CDR. These instructions should let us know anything you think is relevant
to the job. The simplest example being that you want the disc art printed
on a white base to the more complex that you want black to be printed first
so revered text can be read on the underside of the disc. All this should
be included on your purchase order you can download
a pdf version of it here.
- if you have any questions please get in contact
with swerve.
TEMPLATES.
TEMPLATES.
Click on the links for html versions or the icon for PDF download
(please note for 8, 12 and 16 the template is simply a multiple of the 4pp
booklet).
if supplying 20 or 24 panel art just have a look at 4, 8, 12 & 16 then
do the math!
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