Supplying Artwork

Regardless of what software is used to create your artwork, your final artwork file should be exported to a PDF print-ready file format at an appropriate size, in the correct colour mode and featuring sufficient bleed area around the edge.

The maximum file size that can be uploaded via our website is 1GB. This should be more than enough capacity to accommodate artwork at the required resolution for most of our products, provided an appropriate file format is used.

If for any reason you find you’re unable to upload your file, you can call our Design Team on 01606 241044 who’ll be able to diagnose the issue or organise an alternative way for you to supply your file.

It’s also important that your file is not too small. An image that appears fine on screen may lose quality when printed full size.

PDFs

We request all our artwork to be supplied as high resolution (300dpi). You must correctly prepare your PDF file. These options must be set for commercial printing:

Resolution - Choose High Resolution
Compression Settings - For colour and greyscale this should be downsampled to 300dpi with "auto compression" set on high
Font Embedding - Should be set to "embed all fonts"
Colour needs to be set as CMYK not RGB (RGB artwork will be converted to CMYK and this could affect your colours).

The colour profile needs to be set to FOGRA39.