Promotional Items - How to Send Art

Instructions For Sending Art Please use the instructions and guidelines below when preparing artwork for custom printed promotional items and business gifts.

Acceptable Software Applications: Adobe Illustrator Version CS or lower Corel Draw Version 11, or lower Freehand Version 11, or lower PageMaker PhotoShop Version 6	Storage Formats: Macintosh or PC formatted 3.5" disk Iomega 100, or 250mb Zip Disk Compact Disk DVD

Important Art Reminders
Convert all fonts to paths or curves. (Text converted to paths can no longer be edited as text.) For Mac users, an alternative is to include both screen and printer fonts.
Multiple color jobs should be created using spot color mode rather than process color mode.
Include all EPS and Tiff files used in creating your document.
Do not email files larger than 3 meg. Large files should be compressed by using Winzip or saved to a zip disk than mailed or shipped to us.
When creating artwork, remember that our printing process may require the "trapping" of colors on multi-color jobs.
If possible, send proofs of color separations for multiple color jobs. Please do not send an original file. Make a copy before sending.

Important Facts To Know About Sending Artwork
Over the years we have found that vector (line) art works best for most products. Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw and Freehand seem to work well for saving and exporting vector art. Remember, these are the best ways of sending us artwork. If for some reason you can't get the artwork to us in one of these formats we can work out other options.
Most jobs will require at least some minimal form of art/setup. This is a one time fee that covers color separating, creating traps, film positives, etc. The closer the supplied art is to a print ready state, the cheaper the one time set up fee will be. Our art/setup charge is $45.00 per hour. Once we see the provided art work, we can give quotes for art/setup. All we can do is estimate the art/setup fee until we see the art.
If you have any questions at all about art requirements just call or email us. We are very interested in your business and will try to be as helpful as possible.