Artwork Guidance
The right file type
At MR Printers, we can print from most common file types, however, we prefer you send us a Print-Ready PDF format with at least 3mm bleed and crop marks.
The following are particularly popular with our customers:
- PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format)
- TIF/TIFF
- JPG/JPEG
- EPS
- PSD (Adobe Photoshop)
- AI (Adobe Illustrator)
- INDD (Adobe InDesign)
- QXD (Quark Xpress)
Quality printing requires high-resolution artwork. Whilst websites and other screen images tend to have a resolution of 72 dpi (dots per inch), work destined for print needs be supplied at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi at its finished size.
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Make sure bleed is correct
The right colour profile
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Lithographic printing requires colour artwork that is supplied in a CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) format. Using these four colours enables us to create superior printing to that achieved using three-colour digital RGB (Red Green Blue) processes. However, many popular file formats — such as digital camera generated JPGs —are created with an RGB colour profile.
We will happily convert RGB to CMYK for you, but you will need to check that you are happy with the colour conversion. For absolute assurance that the colours you have chosen are the colours we print, the best option is to provide us with CMYK artwork. Many popular software packages, such as Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw and the free GimPhoto enable you to convert RGB files to CMYK, allowing you to make any necessary colour adjustments before your artwork is printed.
A word About PDFs
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PDFs are increasingly popular file formats, and we can print high quality work from them. We can create the best job if you can provide us with files that have:
Embedded fonts
3mm bleed (printing that goes over the edge of the sheet after trimming)
Trim marks that are centred on the document
CMYK colour mode
