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PLEASE
NOTE: Desktop
publishing, presentation or spreadsheet programs like
Microsoft™ Word, Excel and Power Point do
not provide suitable graphics for screen printing.
Customer-provided
digital artwork should follow the guidelines below.
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Hard
Copy
"Ink on paper" type of artwork
will have to be scanned into a digital format at a rate
of $25.00 per scan. Other billable processing
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Adobe
Illustrator™v. CS2 or earlier
.AI, .PDF or .EPS
- CMYK
color mode
- All
type converted to outlines or paths.
- Individual
spot colors should set to Pantone™ Solid
Coated values or be collected on separate layers.
- Shades
of gray should be assigned black tint
values.
- Placed
images should be imbedded in the file or
sent with the file
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Vector
graphics (created with drawing
programs like Adobe Illustrator™,
Corel Draw™, Macromedia Freehand™,
etc.) consist of points,
paths and color fills.
Vector artwork creates an extremely sharp image and
can be infinitely re-sized without any resolution
issues.
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Adobe
Photoshop™v. CS2 or earlier
(.TIFF[pc byte order], .PSD or.JPG
- RGB
mode with all type rasterized.
- 300
ppi resolution at actual print size
- .TIFF
and .PSD and .PNG files should be provided with
layers intact if possible.
- Transparent
background with a separate layer simulating
the color of the printed item
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Raster
graphics (created with painting
programs like Adobe Photoshop™,
Corel Paint™ and others) are desirable with
artwork that involves shades of color and shadows. Because
raster graphics are rendered with
tiny squares of color (pixels) they need to be
prepared at a very high resolution for editing and printing. |
