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Digital Templates:
Before you begin, contact us for a digital template of the
product style you have purchased. Use our template in your layout program
to properly position your design elements. Some areas of your design will
be positioned "upside down" or rotated so they print
correctly (see image below). Place or import the
template file into your page layout program, and place it on a separate
layer.
Fonts: DO NOT USE the
font styles available in the fonts palette (i.e.
bold or italic). You must have an actual bold or italic font file
loaded to choose from in your font list in order for the font to print
correctly. It will look fine on screen, probably print okay to a desktop
inkjet or laser printer, but will not print correctly to a high-resolution output
device. We will not be held responsible for fonts not imaging as you
expected if you use the font styles palette.
Check your document and verify you included all fonts
used in your file. Review all text areas for extraneous blank spaces
and extra "returns". If, while designing, you experimented with
different fonts there may be fonts still attached to the text that are
"hiding" blank spaces or extra returns between lines of text or at the
ends of paragraphs or single lines of text. Verify there are no unused
fonts remaining in your artwork by checking the list of fonts used in
your documents file information. We will need ALL font files used in
your document (even if the font only shows up in a blank space) before
we can further process your document for printing. All fonts
should be placed in a Zip or Stuffit file before being emailed or
uploaded to avoid the possibility of being corrupted.
NOTE: To eliminate the need to send your font files you may convert your
text to "curves" or "outlines". Keep in mind though,
once text is converted it cannot be edited (i.e. phone numbers, spelling
mistakes, e-mail addresses, grammatical errors, etc. can't be changed). For
the greatest flexibility we DO NOT recommend converting text to outlines or
curves.
Bleeds & File Sizes: Bleed
is an extra amount of image or other elements that go beyond the finished
trim size of your project (usually 1/8”). Once your job has been printed,
we then cut it down to size, giving the appearance the image
‘bleeds’ off the edge of the final product rather than having a
white or paper-colored border. Because the cutting is done in large stacks
on machinery, there can be slight variances. Although the automated cutting machines are state of the art,
some allowance must be made for shifting of the stack and/or the cutting
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