Follow these tips when creating your graphic layout to provide files perfectly usable for your printer. Get a better quality when printing your documents.

THE COLOR BLUE:
To avoid having too purple-blue, I recommend not to exceed 70% of magenta in the creation of your color chart.

COLOR BLACK:

When printing, the result of a solid black print only dark gray. During the design, n 'never forget to add cyan to get a deep black.

EDGES AND Bleed

It is mandatory to comply with a bleed of 2mm (minimum) inside the image to your text. You will avoid the risk entirely of text cut off. When you want a paper chart with a background color or picture on any page, it is absolutely necessary to add material (Wallpaper) on the document. When we trim, we cut the paper in color, which avoids the white stripe on the edge. Be sure to leave a bleed of 2mm (minimum). For example, for a business card size 85 x 54 mm your file will have the dimensions of 89 x 58 mm.

TEXTS:

Vectorized in your texts, you avoid any problems of interpretation of the font in the "ripping". It is not necessary in this case, provide the font suitcases. Select your text in Illustrator or InDesign. Click on the menu "text" and choose "Create Outlines".

QUARK XPRESS:
For documents with background images or departing at the cutting edge you will need a file lost around 2 mm. If your final product will be folded or grooved, please indicate the exact position of the fold and the style of folding. Imported images in an image block to have a transparent background in a flash aliasing edges. Always give the bloc a background color (eg white). This issue affects the pixelated images, please disregard your vector images. Leave the default settings for trapping. Do not use styles Xpress shadow, italic ... prefer fonts with these options. The colors are CMYK. To avoid any conflict of colors, custom colors appointed must have a specific name. By following these instructions, your graphics will reflect the desired result.

INDESIGN:
Your page size should be at final print size. For documents with background images or board, you will need a bleed around the file of 2 mm. The colors must be CMYK. All fonts are vectorized. Your graphic design is completed, be sure to export your pages in eps.

PHOTOSHOP:
Check that the images are not in RGB. Your file must be CMYK, bitmap or grayscale 300 dpi. Flatten image and save it in photoshop tiff or eps. Do not use compression or color profiles. Leave the screen angles and transfer functions by default. Isolated For images, create a mask and save only eps. Your page size should be at final print size. Your graphics can then be transcribed in jpg or tiff.

ILLUSTRATOR:
The page format should be in final print size. For documents with background images or departing at the cutting edge you will need a file lost around 2 mm. The colors must be CMYK. All fonts must be vectorized. The nets must have a contour with a thickness. Beware hairline, below 0.25 points, they do not always print correctly. Not to lock YOUR ITEMS. Save your file as Illustator eps.

I wish you good work ...

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