Preparing Your Artwork

Provided below is some information to help you prepare your artwork for printing by Print Dynamics.

Flightcheck Your Files

Save time and effort when designing your files from within your page layout program such as QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.

Preparing Electronic Art

Your checklist

• Have you included all screen and printer fonts used on both your document and within any supported files imported into your document?
• Have you supplied all supported graphics files - EPS, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
• All images supplied for 4 colour printing must be CMYK not RGB.
• Have you deleted unnecessary colours not used in document from colour palette?
• Have you supplied a composite FINAL laserproof?

Art considerations

Creep
Creep occurs when the pages of a saddle stitched book becoming progressively shorter in width as you progress towards the centre of the book.

It is more evident on saddle stitched books 32pp and over e.g. an 80pp book on 115gsm Art paper would have approximately 4mm creep.

Check our online "Weight and Creep Calculator" for approximations of creep in different circumstances.

We recommend the supply of a dummy prior to the design to check for creep. CallPrint Dynamics to arrange.

Bleed
3mm bleed - minimum