Preparing Files


It’s easy to prepare your files for digital offset printing. We’ve created a workflow for each of the top design applications to get your files smoothly to our digital offset printing presses.

The goal of each workflow is simple: To create files, in industry standard formats, that aren’t dependent on the application, fonts or other separate design elements used to create your final artwork. We accept the following file formats: .TIF, .JPG, .PDF, .EPS and .PSD. All file formats must have bit map resolutions of 300dpi and embedded or outlined fonts.

We’ve learned that by streamlining the prepress process we’re able to pass significant savings onto you, the customer. It also bypasses common pitfalls associated with preparing digital artwork for print: embedded fonts and images won’t shift, get lost or render incorrectly, and as your printer, we’re unable to alter your job in any way. It puts you in control.

Follow our general guidelines and application workflow instructions below and we can guarantee you’ll be proud of our collaboration. Note that we cannot process orders that do not meet the minimum requirements.

Digital File Guidelines
Adobe Illustrator®
Output: Illustrator EPS 		Adobe Photoshop®
Output: Photoshop PSD
 QuarkXpress®
Output: EPS(PC) | PS(MAC)
Adobe PageMaker®
Output: Illustrator EPS
 Macromedia Freehand®
Output: Freehand EPS
Adobe InDesign
Output: Acrobat PDF
300 DPI/CMYK
*We can accept any PDF file, as long as the output is: 300dpi, CMYK		 Adobe Acrobat®
Output: Acrobat PDF
300 DPI/CMYK
*We can accept any PDF file, as long as the output is: 300dpi, CMYK