Supplying finished artwork to bellprinters

You may prefer to supply finished artwork to us if you have the necessary skills, experience and the right software. However, please remember that producing usable artwork for printing is highly-skilled and there are many pitfalls for the inexperienced designer. Just because it looks good on your screen or from your desktop printer does not mean that it can be used for professional printing.

Artwork supply guidelines

Ideally, we would like to receive a professionally produced, Mono, Spot Colour or CMYK press ready PDF.

Quoted Prices

Time is money and our staff have to be paid like everyone else. Our prices are keen and our quotations assume that any artwork supplied by or on behalf of our customer is produced to a professional standards and that it follows the industry standards of images being 300dpi minimum, having all fonts embedded and being entirely produced in CMYK. Please ensure that whoever creates the finished artwork reads these guidelines before supplying any artwork to us. While we try to be as helpful as we can, we have to reserve the right to charge for artwork time after the first proof, for correcting, altering, amending, fault-finding, hand-holding and re-proofing work supplied and/or re-supplied by inexperienced designers. Any despatch or delivery times and dates discussed are totally dependent upon the artwork being usable when initially supplied and will naturally be subject to change if problems are found within the files supplied.

Advice

Not all problems show up on a proof. We strongly recommend that you ask for advice and follow our guidelines exactly before producing artwork as mistakes can be expensive and can result in delays and extra charges due to re-plating.

Your artwork checklist:

Colours must be set to CMYK.

Images (and photo/scans) can be provided as a JPEG, TIFF, EPS or PDF but not embedded into a document.

Logos are preferred as an EPS or vector file.

Resolution of Images/photos/scans must be at least 300dpi at actual print size.

Fonts should be broken apart, specified or provided. If we do not have your required font, they can be purchased at an additional charge.

Bleed must be included at 3mm all the way round the page size. Without a bleed, we will find it near impossible to finish a job accurately and white edges may show where the pages are cut.