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We are as excited as you about printing your job, but PLEASE READ THIS before you send through your files. It is important that they are all set up correctly, otherwise you may incur extra costs for us to fix them which may delay their delivery. No one wants that.
Setting Up Your Artwork
Live area: This is the area on your artwork where all the important stuff goes, 3mm in from the final trimmed size. We have this as a safe printing area so nothing essential gets chopped off your artwork.
Bleed: This is a 3mm of extra background on all of the edges (all round). We cut off this excess at the finishing part of printing.
Trim: This is the final size of your printed piece once the bleed has been removed.
The table below gives the dimensions of standard page sizes. Of course, we can print custom dimensions, just give us a call!
Standard Sizes
| TRIMMED SIZE | TRIMMED SIZE + 3MM OF BLEED | LIVE AREA | TRIMMED SIZE | TRIMMED SIZE + 3MM OF BLEED | LIVE AREA | ||
VIP |
90 x 54 | 96 x 60 | 84 x 49 | A3+ |
314 x 444 | 320 x 450 | 308 x 438 |
A7 |
74 x 105 | 80 x 11 | 68 x 99 | A2 |
420 x 594 | 426 x 600 | 414 x 588 |
A6 |
105 x 148 | 111 x 154 | 99 x 142 | A1 |
594 x 480 | 600 x 846 | 588 x 836 |
A5 |
148 x 210 | 154 x 216 | 142 x 204 | A0 |
840 x 1189 | 846 x 1195 | 834 x 1183 |
DL |
210 x 99 | 216 x 105 | 204 x 93 | DIGITAL POLE POSTERS |
320 x 910 | 326 x 916 | 314 x 904 |
CD |
148 x 148 | 154 x 154 | 142 x 142 | Offset pole
posters |
345 x 1000 | 351 x 1006 | 339 x 994 |
A4 |
210 x 297 | 216 x 303 | 204 x 291 | One sheet
posters |
700 x 1000 | 706 x 1006 | 694 x 994 |
A3 |
297 x 420 | 303 x426 | 291 x 414 | Two sheet
posters |
1000 x 1400 | 1006 x 1406 | 994 x 1396 |
Checklist For Sending Files
ATTENTION! If your files do not comply
to these specifications we
can not guarantee that your job will be printed correctly or on time.
3mm of bleed is required for all jobs with a background colour, texture or image. If your artwork is not supplied with bleed, we may ask you to resupply it or will charge you for the time it takes us to correct it.
All digital flies must be flattened, i.e. all layers and vector graphics converted to outlines.
- File format:
- PDF is the only Preferred File Format.
- Multiples files should be supplied as a single PDF file only.
- Sending your file
- If your file is under 10MB then you can email it to us at: printme@marshmedia.net
- If it’s larger than 10MB, please contact us and we can provide you with our FTP details.
- File Naming Convention:
- File names must contain specific information about the job and be set to the following formula:
A) Job Name B) Size C) Quantity D) Side (front/back) e.g. MARSHMEDIA_A6x5000_front.pdf
- Artwork resolution (dpi)
- Colour raster images should be no less than 300dpi
- Greyscale raster images should be no less than 800dpi, Monochromatic bitmaps should be 1200dpi.
- All images must be embedded in the PDF files and OPI must be inactive.
- Color Mode
- A ll colour models should be converted to CMYK mode. If documents are to be printed in CMYK (Process) all colours, which includes RGB and Pantones (Spot) must be converted to CMYK before making PDF files.
- Files supplied as RGB may not be detected and will print discoloured and dull. We will not take any responsibility for any unexpected result.
- Bleed
- 3mm external bleed
- Text margin should be 3mm inside from the trim mark.
- All supplied documents must be built to trim.
- Line thickness
- Minimum line thickness: 0.25pt.
- Anything less than a hairline will not hold on the press.
- Trim/Cropmarks
- All Artwork must have crop marks for cutting guidance.
- Fonts
- All fonts must be embedded, outlined or converted to curves.
- For CMYK colour fonts, the type must be no less than 8pt.
- Layers
- A ll Layers MUST be flattened
- Die-cut lines
- All die-cuts lines must be in vector images, NOT raster images.
- Die-cut lines must be provided in the exact positions as a separate document.
- Transparency & Overprints
- All Layers MUST be flattened.
- If a transparency or overprint are to be used in the document it must be flattened and preserved within the documents.
- Spot colours
- All Spot Colour jobs must be provides in a spot separation or map to a 100% of a solid separation colour.
- Black
- All 100% Black background jobs must be converted to rich black using the following breakdown: C=40% M=0% Y=0% K=100%.
- All black text to be left as 100% black unless it is more than 50pt.
- For rich black in digital printing, please leave it at 100% black.
We Only Accept PDF files
Illustrator PDFs
To create a PDF, you can either “Save as” a
PDF from illustrator or “Print to” a PDF file.
To Save as: Use the Press Quality preset.
Under the Marks and Bleeds tab, check
Trim marks. Also in this tab, in the Bleeds
section, put 3mm for each of the values.
To Print to a PDF: Select Adobe PDF as
the printer. Under the Marks and Bleeds
tab, check Trim marks. Also in this tab, in
the Bleeds section, put 3mm for each of
the values.
InDesign PDFs
PDFs are exported from InDesign. Use the
Press Quality preset. Under the Marks and
Bleeds tab, check Trim marks. Also in this
tab, in the Bleed section, put 3mm for each
of the values.
Photoshop PDFs
Set up your document size including
bleeds.
For example if your final printed
piece is to be A7 (74 x 105mm) make your
Photoshop document
80 x 111 mm.
To print your PDF: Select File > Print then
select Adobe PDF as the printer. Click
the Page Setup button, in the Adobe PDF
Settings tab, select Press Quality in the
Default Settings dropdown. In the Adobe
PDF Page Size section, you will need to
add a custom paper size 10mm larger than
your Photoshop document, click
Add/Modify and select the new page
size you created, click OK. In the Position
section, ensure that the Center Image
option is checked. The Scaled Print Size
option should be 100%. In the Output tab
check the corners for Crop Marks.
Click
Bleed and enter 3mm as the value. Click
Print and your PDF will be created.
Layered Artwork
When supplying artwork as a PDF please
ensure that the artwork is set up correctly.
That is, image files from Photoshop should
be flattened to one layer and not set up as
a multi layer document, this decreases the
amount of superfluous information on your
file and streamlines it for output.
