BLEEDING & SAFE ZONE

Bleeding : 2mm from each side.

Safe Zone : 5mm for top, left & right edges. While 10mm for bottom edge.

ARTWORK PRECAUTION

• Folding Tolerance : +-1mm Recommend to use same background colour while prepare artwork to avoid colour overlap onto other page after folding.
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IMPORTANT:
PLEASE AVOID YOUR ARTWORK CONTAIN DESIGN OR LAYOUT AS BELOW:

1. Different Colour Background

2. Background artwork with stripe design

3. Extended graphic on the folding line

REMARK: EXPRESSPRINT WILL NOT HELD ANY RESPONSIBILITY IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SHOWN AS ABOVE.

SUBMIT ARTWORK FOR L-SHAPE PLASTIC FOLDER FILE

IMPORTANT NOTES IN PREPARING WHITE BASE ARTWORK

• Fill the artwork with black (K100) to indicate the area for white base.
• Rename colour to precisely “ White” to indicate the area of white base instead “WHITE” or “white”
  *Expressprint will not held responsibility on any wrong white spot colour naming error. (eg. “WHITE” or “white” or “White(space)” )
• Only use Adobe Illustrator to prepare the white base artwork.
• JPEG file format or JPEG save in PDF format is not allowed while prepare white based artwork.
• White based artwork must prepare in VECTOR Rename the color swatch name by using Adobe Illustrator

STANDARD CHECKLIST :

COLOUR

• Use ONLY CMYK colour mode in your artwork -No colour tints (toning) lower than 10%
• Do not set black colour to (C=100 M= 100 Y= 100 K= 100)
• Make sure the value between colours are at least 10% of different. (Tint / toning effect more obvious)

LINE

• Line weight not less than 0.25points (Not applicable for Pre-Inked stamp,spot UV,Hot Stamping)

IMAGES

• All images are in CMYK colour mode
• Resolution of all images are set to or above 300dpi.
• Scanned line Art/Black & White images resolution are set to or above 1200dpi.
• Do not manipulate images using a layout program

TEXT

• No font less than 4points -Curve / Path / Create outline all fonts

ARTWORK

• Artwork is prepared in our Product Size Templates
• Background design expand to
• Full Bleed size
• No crop mark are applied
• Ensure artwork orientation

DESIGN

• All images have been exported / converted : Background, design effects, photos, images to TIFF files (not including text / vector images)
• Never manipulate images in layout program resolution: 300 dpi -Color Mode: CMYK color mode

FILE FORMAT

• Artwork is saved in required file format : Adobe acrobat Document (*.pdf)
• Resolution: 300 dpi
• Color Mode: CMYK color mode

FILE NAME

• use only alphanumeric

MARKING & TRAPPING

• Never apply any crop mark or trapping onto the files.