| Sizes | | Final Trim Size | | The utility size is a rectangle whose minimum and maximum dimensions depend on the material selected. For details, refer to materials specifications. | | Full Bleed Size | | This is the size (in millimeters) of the file being prepared. - (full bleed size.)
| | Bleed | | Artwork background and all objects adjoining the edge of the final piece must be extended over the edges to the bleed. The size of bleed for this artwork should be 2 mm at each side. |
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| Graphics | | Colour Model | Prepare your artwork in CMYK model (except for artwork with additional colour). If your artwork contains halftone images (textures, photos), convert it also to CMYK.
Using different colour spaces or colour models in one document (e.g. CMYK and RGB) leads to incorrect colour rendering and is not covered by warranty. | | Rich Black | To achieve a full, dark black, use a black color composed of 33%C 33%M 33%Y 100%K. For printing on backlit materials, use 60%C 55%M 50%Y 100%K.  | | Tone Gradation | Do not set your tonal range for values smaller than 5%.
| | Optimum Resolution | | Optimum resolution for bitmaps (graphics, photos) is 600dpi.
| | Layout | Turn the artwork by 90 degrees to check if bitmaps rotate correctly.
Set all texts on a separate top layer.
In case of saving your artwork as CDR file, please group all the objects and convert all fonts to curves/paths.
In your file please define your artwork size in accordance with above mentioned size and place your artwork centrally on a page.
If you save as EPS file the artwork which has no background (white), please frame it to above mentioned size.
Given the base positioning tolerance, there may be some shift in the job relative to the utility. Therefore, we discourage placing any kind of frames around the project, whose non-centricity on the utility can be seen.
All pages in the file should have been done in the same print orientation.
By default utilities are reversed "Head to Head". |
PLEASE NOTE!
Printing on colour media, except for white materials and milky plexiglass, requires white underprint.
White underprint design must be prepared as a separate piece of artwork.
Printing on transparent plexiglass is done on the reverse (as a mirror image) with white colour applied subsequently. The mirror image artwork must be provided by the client.
For one job, prepare just one cutting grid for curved-line trimming. |
White Colour | UV plotter offers the possibility of white colour printing. This means that white colour only or CMYK colours with white underprint can be printed on colour and transparent materials.
To order products with white underprint, please prepare artwork containing 3 {dodstr} pages:
- the first page with colour artwork,
- the second page with white underprint (on colour and clear materials only),
- the third page with the shape for curved line trimming (only when this option is selected).
You can also prepare separate files – one with the colour artwork (with the word ”colour” added to the file name), the second with the underprint (the file with white underprint must have the word „white” in its name), and an optional third file with the shape to be cut out (with the word ”cut” in the name).
After doing this, compress the files together as ZIP or 7z.
For example:
personalised transparent cards, 60 colour cards with common underprint – file names:
cards_transparent_colour.pdf (60 color pages), cards_white_60x.pdf (1 black and white page).
Preparing a file with underprint
Copy your artwork to a separate file and change all colours to black (100% K). The change from black to white is done automatically by the printer software.
For small texts in black colour (100% black) the ground print isn't required.
PLEASE NOTE!
White objects defined as C0%,M0%,Y0%,K0% will be transparent in the printout. |
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| Preparation for personalisation | | Final Trim Size | For personalised print, you need to prepare an additional database. Instructions for preparing this are available in a different section:
See how to prepare personalisation |
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| Saving to File | | File Formats | Preferred: PDF
Accepted: (unrecommended) CDR, TIFF i JPG (in other resolution than 600/300 dpi).
| | Additional Information | If you have text in your artwork please remember to convert it to curves / paths or attach used fonts to your file (refers only to PDF files).
Don't convert texts to bitmaps!!!
If your artwork consists of more than one page, please save all pages in a single file. If the chosen file format does not allow for saving all pages in one file, please save them in two separate files named face and reverse. (projekt_awers.tiff, projekt_rewers.tiff)If Curved Line Trimming has been selected, the artwork containing the shape to be cut out should be saved in a separate file (using the word 'ciecie' [which translates to 'cutting' in English] in the name.
You can add preview to your artwork (you must write 'preview' in the name of the file).
For artwork with an underprint, please see the Graphics section (above) on how to prepare files.
If you send more than one file, please send them in ZIP format if possible.
In case of TIFF files please save them as single layer files, with no additional channels.For complex projects with multiple layers, overlapping graphics, shadows, transparencies etc., as far as possible, flatten to a single background image, retaining texts, logos, lines and other important elements of the project in the vector form only. In particular, this problem concerns CorelDRAW X4, where in extreme cases, despite a good-looking PDF file, the printout may contains errors. |
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| Additional Information | | | Please keep in mind that due to differences in printing technology and colour presentation, some differences in colours may occur also when compared to inkjet printouts or colours displayed on a computer screen. |
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