Contact wins another award. This time we won the "Best of the Best" award at the annual Gallery of Superb printing for the Charles van Sandwyk book "Dream Island"
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Technical Information for Designers
Preflight Checklist
Preflighting your files before sending them to us for printing will often avoid production delays and added costs to the job. Preflighting involves checking and verifying all aspects of the job before sending the files to us. There are numerous things to be checked, listed below are just a few of the common things that are often missed.
Have all the high resolution images been included.
Have all the fonts used in the job been included, both screen and printer.
Have you included a hard copy laser proof or a digital pdf proof.
In a multi-page document have you made your pages the finished page size of the document and not as spreads.
Have you added 1/8” bleed outside the final trim area.
Do you have the colours correct, for example CMYK not RGB, spot colours are named correctly and consistently.
By checking the things listed above, as well as others not listed, before you send us the file will avoid costly delays. Most design software has a simple preflight function built-in that will automatically check for things such as missing fonts and images.
