Artwork Information

Please check the information below for details of file formats we can accept for your designs, our extensive stock photography library and our photographic services (for local businesses).

 

Always check with us first if you are in any doubt about file preparation.

 

E-mail:  enquiries@SignsandGraphics.biz

 

Tel: 01443 201871 (Mon-Fri   8.30 to 6)

 

Submitting your design layouts

 

We can work with many types of files including those  prepared in:

 

● Corel Draw (cdr)  ● Adobe Illustrator (ai, eps)           

 

 

● Adobe Photoshop (psd)  ● Xara Xtreme (xar)  

 

 

We also accept PDF files and images saved as Tiff and JPG - please see notes below.

STOP! - Please do NOT spend time designing with Microsoft Word, Publisher or Power Point etc. - These are not professional design programs and will not be suitable for  reproduction. 

Layouts should be prepared with a 3mm bleed area and text should be 5mm inside the page borders.

Fonts should be converted to curves or attached with your artwork.

Minimum resolution is 72dpi at final size

Please attach a small size bitmap with your artwork so that we can be sure that we are seeing your layout as you intend.

 

 

Photography

If you are in the South East Wales area and need good quality photographic images of your products or services we can provide those images for you with our high resolution Canon camera.

 

Call for more details.

 

Please note this is a chargeable service.

 

Our Stock Artwork Library

 

 

We have an extensive range of high quality stock photography which is royalty free and can be utilised in your designs.

The range is continually being added to but already incorporates categories suitable for many businesses.

Categories include: