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Advice for Artwork

We want the same thing you want - to ensure that we print the document as you think it should be printed. The challenge is that what you think you want is not always what you give us. To help we have put together this section detailing the best format to supply your work.

Composition

Composition is your choice of how you put your document together and generally you can do what you want, but there are a few things you need to be aware of:

The Page Size of your document will be automatically read when you upload, so you can chose any page size or shape you like, but generally these are the sizes you should work to.

  • A1: 841 x 594
  • A2: 594 x 420
  • A3: 297 x 420
  • A4: 210 x 297
  • A5: 147.5 x 210
  • A6: 105 x 147.5
  • Compliment Slip: 210 x 99
  • Business Card: 85 x 55

It is a good practice to leave a 'quiet zone' of 5mm from the edge of the paper. This will make your job look more professional and won't look like objects are about to fall off the edges.

Some of our products will be folded, like a DL mailer (i.e. A4 folded into third A4) so try to avoid folds going through images.

How we use images

Our solution has two solutions for images, photo uploads and images used in templates, here, we are focussing on templates.

If an image is used in a template, the designer will define a box, into which the image will go. The image will scale up into the box until it meets an edge. This can result in three things:

  • The image and the box are the same proportions, which means the image will scale up and fill the box perfectly. The box can be small or large, but the image will always fill it.
  • The image is proportionally taller than box. The image will scale up, until it hits the top/bottom of the box, there will therefore be a gap on the left and right of the image.
  • The image is proportionally wider than the box. The image will scale up, until it hits the left/right of the box, there will therefore be a gap at the top and bottom of the image.

Our designers try to ensure that the images still look good, even if they do not fit.