File Guidelines

When you order custom posters, business cards or other custom products, you will  be asked to upload a PDF file containing your layout. To make sure that your PDF can be printed properly, it must meet certain quality criteria. If a PDF file looks good on screen and prints nicely on your home printer, that is no guarantee that it will also print properly on a printing press

Guidelines

PDF Files

• PDF files are preferred 
• Multiple PDF file uploads ARE supported. Multiple page PDF files ARE supported. 
• All the pages within the PDF document must have the same size.
• There should be no empty pages. Pages may not contain annotations (sticky notes) in the area that will be printed.
• If the design calls  bleeds, there should be a minimum of .125" on all sides for trim. Alternate solutuon is to make your document .125" larger on all sides and know that .125" will br trimmed off.  For example an 8.5x11 finished size document should be created as 8.75x11.25.  

Application specific guidelines

Adobe PDF

To properly export PDF files from Adobe InDesign we recommend to install the preset which can be downloaded here.

QuarkXpress 7.2 to 10

Only kidding....nobody uses this program anymore!!!

Adobe Photoshop

Please do not create documents in Adobe Photoshop. Unless you are very careful, text is stored as an image in a Photoshop document. This causes it to be printed slightly blurred. Editing images in Photoshop for inclusion in a layout is obviously no problem!