File Formats

PDF file – 300dpi, If bleed, add .125” in both dimensions.

300dpi, If bleed, increase dimensions by .125” in both directions to accommodate bleed. There will be a nominal prepress charge for preparing a TIFF file for print.

Save Image-Quality at Maximum or 300dpi. If bleed, increase dimensions by .125” in both directions to accommodate bleed. There will be a nominal prepress charge for preparing a JPG file for print.

If bleed, increase dimensions by .125” in both directions to accommodate bleed. There will be a nominal prepress charge for preparing an EPS file for print.

Exporting your Adobe InDesign project to a high-resolution PDF file is usually all we need. On the “Compression” tab, select “Do Not Downsample” in all three image types. If bleed is desired, (hopefully you’ve designed with .125” bleed) go to the “Marks and Bleeds” tab and check “Crop Marks” and “Use Document Bleed Settings”.

If we request your InDesign project, please “Package” the design, and then send us the resulting directory through our Send a File page. Then we will have access to links and fonts.

Save your Adobe Illustrator file to .PDF with no down-sampling. On the “Compression” tab, select “Do Not Downsample” in all three image types. If bleed is desired, (hopefully you’ve designed with .125” bleed) go to the “Marks and Bleeds” tab and check “Trim Marks” and “Use Document Bleed Settings”.

Before submitting artwork created in Microsoft Word, export your Word document to .PDF and review the resulting .PDF file for accuracy.

Before submitting artwork created in Microsoft Publisher or Adobe PageMaker (both have the .PUB extension) export your file to a high-resolution .PDF and review the resulting file for accuracy.