The bleed is necessary to avoid the appearance of white areas due to displacements resulting from folding, binding, cutting, etc. There is no need to add cutting marks, indicia or color bars to the print file, we will add these in imposition.ĭesign elements that reach cutting lines must extend over the edge of the cutting line: 3 mm in case of brochures, adhesive bound booklets-books and 5 mm in case of staple bound booklets-books. In case of 3 mm bleed, A4 print file is 216×303 mm and a 90×50 mm business card with a 3mm bleed from each edge has a print file of 96×56 mm.
Layout or clean format of the printed matter is located exactly in the center of the page, there is added bleed 3-5 mm equally from each edge. There must be a 10 mm clear space (printing machine „gripping area”) in at least one edge of envelope printing. Markings for folding can be added, but they must be outside of the clean format, in the bleed. In case of printed matter with complex or ambiguous post-processing, send a model or a video with the file to rule out any possible misunderstandings. Text, page numbers and other design elements that cannot get lost during post-processing (stamping, cutting, folding, binding, etc.) must be located at least 3 mm from the edges of the clean format. Coloration of the print file must be done with either CMYK, spot or CMYK+spot colors, depending on the order. We make printing plates using CTP technology and that’s why we make the imposition from the file ourselves. Then it’s easy to associate the file with the order. It’s recommended to show the format of the printed matter and how much the bleed is in the file name (e.g A4_letter_210x297_3mm.pdf). The print file is a PDF, created according to standard PDF/X:1a (2001), has preferably passed the preflight check with the use or Adobe Acrobat Pro or PitStop without errors. Mark spot varnish in the print file on a separate page or with the printed matter using a separately indicated 100% color (spot). It’s possible to use spot varnish to add an effect. It’s recommended to use varnish with spot silver and gold. It’s possible to use both matte and glossy varnish. To protect the printing surface or to get a brighter result, it’s possible to coat printing matter with varnish. The same also applies to the automatic conversion of spot colors into CMYK. If the print file contains RGB colors, the colors chosen by the automated CMYK conversion in the printing house can vary considerably from those that were converted. When making codes online, check that colors are converted from RGB to CMYK.
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In case of a raster, the code might end up being unreadable by scanners. If you need the code to be in color, ensure that the spot color is 100% or in case of CMYK, one of the colors must be 100%. It’s recommended to print bar codes, QR codes with 100% K.
If the design is made thinking of the result on a coated paper and the order is later placed for uncoated paper, the result is significantly different. When choosing a color, compare the same color mixture using pantone coated and uncoated fans. It’s important to know that one and the same color mixture can give different results when printed on different papers. Spot colors are also used in addition to CMYK colors. Many bright colors and special colors can’t be achieved using the four color process of CMYK. Spot colors are used to get specific shades that are difficult to achieve with CMYK colors. Spot colors are mixed before printing according to Pantone catalog. The maximum amount of color that can be applied on a coated paper is up to 340% and on an uncoated paper 280%. It’s not possible to use all four colors one hundred percent, since paper can’t sustain great amounts of color.
The image on paper is achieved through four colors, the amount of which is determined as a percentage:Ĭ – cyan (blue), M – magenta (red), Y – yellow, K – key / black We print using CMYK offset technology and spot (Pantone) colors.
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