Artwork Specs

We require artwork as a print ready PDF with crop marks and bleed.

If you are unable to provide this we can generally help create this for
you at an additional cost to your printing. Please enquire if you are
needing this service and we can provide an estimate for you.

Please follow the below instructions. If you are still
unable to create your artwork, please contact us and we will decide if we
need to charge for our time to complete.

  1. Decide on the finished size of your product (A4, DL etc)

  2. (If you’re design program does not have the option to save artwork with crop marks and bleed - Please follow this step) Create a document in your design program that is at least 2mm larger at every edge than the finished size of your product.
    (A4: finish size is 210x297mm so make document 214x301mm). We need at least 2mm bleed but you can make bleed as much as you like. 5mm is probably enough bleed for any kind of job including signage.

  3. Start designing, anything that needs to print right to the edge must fill the entire page, not just the finished page size. If you have a background it must fill the entire 214x301mm page.

  4. Please keep any items you don't want to get trimmed off at least 4mm inside the finish size (8mm inside the document size). We will trim to the finish size, anything between the finish size and the document size will get trimmed off. As guillotines are mechanical devices, we cannot guarantee absolute millimetre perfection, so please allow 1-2mm variation. Artwork with borders doesn’t generally produce a good result as on smaller items a fraction of a millimetre can look very uneven.

  5. Convert/Save your document to pdf, make the pdf size 2mm or more for each edge bigger than the entire document, add crop marks and bleed.

  6. Send the document to us.

Please note if you are creating books you need to supply one PDF file with (page 1- n) all as single spreads with each page having bleed and crop marks.

Please contact us if you require any further information.