Every great job starts with the right files.

Now that you have finalized your project, please review the file specifications below to ensure that your job will print at the best possible quality for the size and materials being used. If you have any questions, please reach out to your team member.

Color proofs will be matched as closely as possible, but not all Pantone colors can be matched in CMYK printing. If you have any questions at all before uploading your files, we are happy to help.

Graphic Size

Build your file at full size if it is small (less than 4ft), bigger than that we would recommend 1:12 or 1:10 scale. What scale you use doesn’t matter as long as you let us know what it is.

File type

We would always prefer the native files if you have created your files with Adobe software. We are always up to date with the latest version of the Creative Cloud. We can accept high resolution PDF or EPS files if all the links are embedded and all fonts are outlined or included.

Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher), Paint, Corel Draw, GIF, low resolution JPG or BMP file formats are not accepted for production. If your file is only a few hundred kilobytes (KB) is not likely going to be printable at more than a couple of inches big.

File transfer

We have an FTP site you are welcome to upload to or we can download it from your site if you have one. We also accept CDs, DVDs, memory sticks, email (if less than 10MB) or links to any of the file transfer sites like Dropbox.

color

All our production is done in CMYK, however, most of our machines also have light Cyan and light Magenta so leaving photos in RGB will get you better results than CMYK. Some colors do not translate well from RGB to CMYK and our six color machines will get better color than plain CMYK. If color match is critical please provide us with a hard copy to match to and/or Pantone Color as reference.