Guidelines

Design it Yourself Artwork
Please read and follow our DIY Artwork Guidelines when supplying your own Artwork for printing.

Quick Summary (for designers)

PDF preferred
or EPS, CDR, TIF, JPG
2mm bleed
CMYK colour.
300dpi resolution minimum
Fonts converted to outlines/curves or flattened.

Design it Yourself Artwork (for the rest of us)
Welcome to the DIY Design Guidelines. Please read and follow these guidelines carefully.

File Formats
We accept a range of file formats for printing.
These formats include PDF, JPG, TIF, PNG, BMP, Photoshop (PSD), Indesign (Ind), Illustrator (AI), EPS, Word, Publisher, Excel, Powerpoint and Corel Draw.

Artwork Specs (Business Card)
We don't accept artwork with no bleed.

We accept artwork supplied from ether Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop or Corel Draw with a 2svddsvmm bleed and crop marks. We also accept artwork supplied from ether Word, Publisher, Excel or Powerpoint with a large bleed.svdsdv

BLEEDS (IMPORTANT!)
Your artwork needs to be a certain size to print correctly. For business cards it is 90x58mm. Part of this size is what we call the “Bleed” which will be trimmed off. The bleed area is 2mm on each side. We strongly recommend keeping a 3mm internal margin. Keep text, logos or important graphics within the margin as trimming can have natural variations in accuracy.

RESOLUTION
Images such as photos in your artwork must have a minimum resolution of 300dpi (dots per inch). Images that have a lower resolution may print pixelated or fuzzy. Images taken from the internet often have a resolution of only 72dpi and will very rarely print very well.

FONTS
Fonts in your artwork need to be “converted to outlines” or “flattened” into a graphic. This will eliminate the chance of fonts not displaying correctly and not printing the way you intended

Microsoft Office Fonts
If you are using a program such as Microsoft Word, it is difficult to convert your fonts to graphics. There are a couple of answers to this problem, both of which are still not imune to fonts problems. Firstly you may choose to select only common fonts such as “Arial” and “Times New Roman” . Secondly you can "embed" fonts: In Microsoft Word and Powerpoint, go to the menu “Tools > Options > Save tab” and select “Embed TrueTypeFonts”. This option is available in Microsoft Publisher under the menu “Tools > Commercial Printing Tools > Fonts”.

Recommendation on File Preparation

1. Files are to be submitted in PDF format and sent to the VOVERES FTP server. The login name and password are issued by our Project Managers.
2. It is recommended to submit the PDF files in PDF/X-3 version.
3. It is mandatory to indicate the TrimBox and BleedBox markings on every page of the PDF file.
4. The paste-ups prepared for printing must include the empty pages as well.
5. It is required to leave bleeds from 3 to 5 mm.
6. Spot UV varnish forms, foil stamping and die-cutting paste-ups are to be submitted in separate vectorial files in Adobe Illustrator (*.ai) format. They must coincide with the publication paste-up format geometrically.
7. The inner pages of the publication are recommended to be submitted in one file, but no larger than 1 GB.
8. If you wish to print on a coated paper, do not exceed the maximum dot amount of 330% (for non-coated paper – 280%).
9. When pasting-up the publication do not position the text and other important elements closer than 5 mm from the publication trimming edges (ArtBox).
10. The covers for the Saddle-stitching binding (saddle-stitched brochures) are to be submitted according to the general recommendations of the publication preparation (see pt. 7).
11. The cover (together with the spine), endsheet and folder paste-ups for Case and saddle-stitching bindings are to be submitted as an evolvent in separate files.
12. We recommend leaving 5 mm width strips of unprinted page on the first and last block pages, as well as the second and third covers of the perfect binding products for a firmer block fixing to the cover.
13. Offset printing publications must have no objects of RGB, LAB and MultiChannel colour gamut left. They all must be converted to CMYK or Grayscale colour gamuts or / and pantone colours.
14. Digital printing publication can contain objects of almost any kind of colour gamut.
15. It is recommended to submit a printed hardcopy of the paste up together with its electronic version.
16. If you are preparing paste-ups of complex technical design or are using difficult to get shades of the CMYK colour gamut (for ex., orange, yellow-green, khaki, etc.), we recommend contacting our prepress department specialists and specifying the peculiarities of the publication preparation.
17. All fonts used in the paste-up must be embedded into the PDF file.
18. The paste-up must not contain lines thinner than 0.02 mm (hairlines).
19. We recommend using raster objects of 350 dpi resolution in the publication paste-up. In any case, the resolution of raster objects must not be less than 150 dpi.
20. Raster or vector object containing 2 % (or less) raster in one channel has very high possibility to disapear, therefore do not use it.

ATTENTION!
The media submitted by the clients are stored until the product is completed and delivered to the client.
We do not undertake any responsibility for the media which were not reclaimed by the customers in time.
The received materials are not stored in archives and we undertake no responsibility for their further preservation.

If you have any questions please, feel free to contact our Prepress Department