Supply of Artwork

General

The studio staff at Colourfoil are skilled in handling your product from start to finish and can cater for all your artworking requirements to ensure satisfaction. To help them produce the right results for you, the following guide lines should be used when preparing your artworks: -

• First class artwork is essential to get the best results. The quality of the die produced is very much dependant on the quality of the original artwork supplied. Please ensure that the image to be used is of a high quality and resolution. A minimum of 1200dpi is recommended.
• Artwork is preferred in digital format, although we can accept hardcopy if supplied as set out below.
• Files to be supplied at 100% of reproductive size will be needed. Please indicate right or wrong reading. Tints and screens should be 100% black fill. Remember, only solids can be reproduced in hot foil, halftone tints will not be successful.
• Images should be clean and crisp. Fine detail can be lost in reproduction so a minimum single line width of 2pt is recommended.

Film

Supplied negative or positive, emulsion side down. Please supply a hardcopy proof with any film artwork.

Digital Files

We can accept artwork in most formats from MAC and PC, however we would recommend JPEG, TIFF*, EPS, PDF or QXD files to avoid disappointment. If supplying PDF files we would recommend that these be produced with aither photoshop or illustrator.

Digital files for engraving will need to be 100% black and white line art. Greyscale, CMYK or RGB will not be suitable, 1200dpi bitmap is fine. If you have any difficulty with the above, please call us for any advice or assistance.

Always convert text to outline or ensure that fonts are made available when supplying artwork for proofing.

* When saving files in TIFF format, do not use LZW compression.

Email your artwork for direct to plate convenience to: -

artwork.dummy@dummy.colourfoil.co.uk

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