PRINT READY FILE FORMAT EPS*, TIF, JPG are considered “print ready” files and require
little, if any modifications in pre-flight before the file is printed.
Supplying “print ready” file formats will insure that your
project will be printed the way it was intended on a normal-to-quick-turn-around
basis. ADDITIONAL DESIGN GUIDELINES & NOTES FOR YOUR “print ready” DESIGNS: SIZE: the size of the design needs to be proportional to the final print size. It is always recommended to design your large format files at a reduced scale of 1/20, 1/10, 1/8, 1/4, or 1/2. Designing at full size is okay but may result in a larger file which doesn’t necessarily result in a better quality print… just more disk space. RESOLUTION: resolution only pertains to placed images within a file’s design. Vector based art, can be enlarged to any size without diminishing its final print quality. The resolution of any placed images within a design should fall within 85-150 dpi at final print size. Posters and medium size prints that contain smaller text (below 24pts.) within a flat image file should be above the 150dpi range to insure legibility. TIF: tif images the most compatible cross-platform “print ready” file type. As a tif file, the design software has already placed each pixel in its appropriate location for the printer. A high resolution tif file is the failsafe way for supplying your documents to us to print. Although quite large, they are to be considered as print ready as you can get. When saving a high resolution flat TIF file, do not utilize LZW or similar compression. Both RGB or CMYK files are accepted. |