Prepress
‘Before we will start production, our prepress department checks and prepares your design files.'
Prefection from the very start
Our prepress technicians set the foundation for successful printing production. They ensure that your artwork has the proper format, appearance, and layout of text and images is set before the full print run for packaging or labels is completed. Prepress technicians take print or electronic files and import them into specialized software, making color, text, and digital image corrections as needed. They set up printing presses to produce the plate proofs.
Printing Delivery Specifications
To ensure we are able to process the digital files you supply without any problems, we kindly request you to observe the following requirements:
- Documents generated in Packz and ArtPro can be processed directly
- Documents generated in other programs should be delivered as PDF
- Send us the fonts used (screen and printer fonts), preferably in a separate folder
- Special fonts (for example Chinese, Arabic etc.) should be converted to vector format
You can deliver digital files through:
- WeTransfer (www.wetransfer.com)
- E-mail (max. 10Mb)
- your FTP server
When creating the files, please consider:
- Trapping for line art or halftone 0,1mm
- Keep text and essential elements 1,5 mm within the final size
- Make bleeding colors at least 1,5 mm bigger than the final size
- Thickness of positive lines 0,05 mm and negative lines 0,15 mm (may vary in full color and dark solid colors)
- Please supply scans and images as Photoshop (TIFF) files, preferably in layers
- Scans and images should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi at 100% size
- Bitmap images should have a resolution of 1200 dpi at 100% size
- Diapositive text in full color or a dark solid color preferably in corps 6 or higher and sans serif
- Reduction of Bar codes maximum 80% (EAN-13 minimum width 30 mm and EAN-8 minimum width 22 mm)
At last, our account managers need the information below for the administrative processing of your order
- Supply a colorprint (preferably 1:1) or a PDF for viewing stating all additional information
- Indicate the formats and the colours used per label on the prints/sort or in a covering letter, as well as any other details