Camera-Ready Art: A
pure black image on a pure white or clear film base. The edges of the
image should be clean and crisp. No jagged edges. No gray
scales. Dot screen should also be clean and crisp. This
will ensure accurate reproduction of your design. The ideal size
would fit on letter or legal size paper.
For a multi-color
application, the art should be color separated, (still appearing as
black and white art). A color composite of the design is also
required showing the design as it should appear when finished.
Computer Disk
File: We are IBM based. If you are Macintosh based, we
have no problem in translating your disk, provided they are saved as
follows. We need all files saved in vector format (where all
files are comprised of outlines, not pixels), using draw programs like
Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. Files should be saved in any of
the following formats: (.eps vector, .ai, .cdr, .plt). We
cannot translate any design done in Freehand, QuarkXpress, or
Photoshop.
We accept all files,
IBM or Macintosh, on high-density disk, zip disk, or CD-ROM.
Please, no bitmaps
(saving a Photoshop TIFF as an EPS does not convert the image to a
vector-based file). Our method of production is "spot
color" which is the reason we need a vector-based file, not
bitmaps.
To avoid having fonts
substituted, be sure that all text is converted to lines. Font
substitution often creates unintended changes to your layout.
Dot screens, which
are provided on disk, must be sent "out of house" at an
extra charge.
