Artwork Guidelines

When preparing and submitting electronic artwork on a disk or via e-mail, please observe the following
guidelines so that we are able to process your order as efficiently as possible.

Our design department is set up on a MS Windows network. If you are creating your artwork on an Apple Mac platform, please read the Macintosh instructions listed below to increase the likelihood of a successful output.

When sending digital artwork we recommend that you send/fax a hard copy printout along with your order,
so that we can verify the integrity of the digital file.

Preferred Software

CorelDraw X4
Your artwork can be saved in .cdr format or as an .eps
file, Corel is very good at importing .eps files from other
programs. Please convert all fonts to curves

Adobe Illustrator CS4
We know this is the industry standard graphics program
and can accept .ai files. Please convert any fonts to Outlines

Other programs
Most graphics programs can export an .eps file, if you use anything other than CorelDraw or Illustrator,
please do this. If your artwork has been created using other programs: (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, Power Point, etc), please contact us to discuss an alternative solution.

If the electronic file is unusable for any reason, you will be asked to supply original art or to remedy any
problems and resubmit the file, this may delay your orders delivery date.

Raster / Scanned artwork
Raster images are acceptable to us IF they meet minimum standard requirements;
Must be clean black and white image (no color or greytones)
Must be at least 300 dpi at the size they are to be imprinted on our product.
.JPG and .TIF images are acceptable.

Mac Instructions
If saving your digital artwork from a Mac computer, please take special care in naming your files, Windows can not accept any “special characters” and needs a valid extension after the file name
(An example of a good file name would be: comanyname-po12345.eps)

Also, Mac fonts are NOT compatible with Windows so please take special care to make sure they are converted to curves or outlines. EPS files generally work the best for us to import when your saving from a Mac
graphics program.

Acceptable Media
Artwork can be sent via email to info@creativesolutionsuk.co.uk
(The preferred size of a file is no larger than 7MB) Please include in the e-mail message, your name, company name, Purchase order number and item you are imprinting.

Artwork can also be sent on CD-ROM or DVD

Note: If you have multiple images or large files, you may want to compress them using compression software (we use WINZIP).

Liability
We ask you to check the artwork very carefully and read the comments made, artwork may be altered or amended to improve printing quality. Once signed off either by the distributor or the end user client we can take no responsibility for inaccurate printing.

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