| Sizes | | Final Trim Size | The visible size of a poster in the frame or in the sandwich board:
- A3 – 255 mm x 380 mm
- A2 – 380 mm x 550 mm
- A1 – 550 mm x 800 mm
- B1 – 660 mm x 960 mm
| | Full Bleed Size | The actual size of a poster in the frame or in the sandwich board:
- A3 – 295 mm x 419 mm
- A2 – 419 mm x 592 mm
- A1 – 592 mm x 840 mm
- B1 – 700 mm x 1000 mm
| | Bleed | | Prepare your artwork without bleed. Mark the artwork area with a black frame (black hairline). |
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| Graphics | | Colour Model | Prepare your artwork in CMYK model (except for artwork with additional colour). If your artwork contains halftone images (textures, photos), convert it also to CMYK.
Using different colour spaces or colour models in one document (e.g. CMYK and RGB) leads to incorrect colour rendering and is not covered by warranty.  | | Colour Screen Tints | | If your artwork consists of large areas in single colour, we recommend to add some noise or slight texture to those areas in order to avoid visual bands. | | Rich Black | | In order to obtain in your graphics rich saturated black use 100% black (K) with no CMY additives. Tone Gradation | | Tone Gradation | Do not set your tonal range for values smaller than 5%.
To avoid visual bands, add some noise to your gradation. | | Optimum Resolution |
100 - 200 dpi.
Don't increase resolution through resampling.
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| Saving to File | | File Formats | Preferred: PDF
Accepted: CDR, TIFF, JPG (not recommended).
Please note: In case of INDESIGN software, we accept only PostScript files. Otherwise, please use the Comment section to inform us: "Attention: InDesign file. Convert to PS, please". JPG (with the minimal compression), TIF (with the included LZW compression - applying other kind of the compression will cause the misinterpretation of the file)
Accepted: CDR (X4 or older)
| | Additional Information | If you save your artwork as CDR file, please rememeber to:
- convert all texts to curves / paths,
w przypadku skomplikowanych projektów zawierających wiele warstw, nachodzące na siebie grafiki, cienie, przezroczystości itp. należy, na ile jest to możliwe, spłaszczyć do jednego obrazu tła, zachowując w postaci wektorowej jedynie teksty, loga, linie i inne istotne elementy projektu.
- supply your artwork with a mock-up (200-300kB JPG file) so we can check correctness of a delivered file.
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| Additional Information | | | If you do not provide us with a mock-up of your artwork, we will print your order however D&D Ltd. does not take responsibility for its incorrect interpretation. |
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