How to use this feature
- Use Corel Draw®, Freehand®, Illustrator®, PageMaker®, InDesign®, Acrobat® Distiller®, Photoshop®, or Quark XPress® to create your product.
- Setup one card per page, per file. Remember to always set your page size accordingly, use crop marks or create a box to indicate margins.
- Print to a postscript file or convert ALL type to curves, outlines, or paths. (Quark users are encouraged to save each page as an .eps file, open each file in Illustrator, convert to outlines, and then save each as Illustrator 8 .eps files with no preview.)
- For best results, upload color separated files, use grayscale or black and indicate output color(s) on the online order form and in your file.
- Use spot color if business cards are 2 or more ink colors.
- RGB and CMYK images are not preferred!
- Use crop marks whenever possible to show position. (Please verify color separations in file or in additional instruction area on online order form.)
- Use postscript format by exporting as an .eps file or printing to a postscript (.ps) file
Our goal is to convert all files received into an EPS file that is 1-up. If you are able to submit your file in this format please do so.
Avoid Delays! Remember to always scan grayscale photos and screens at no less than 300 dpi, black and white line art at no less than 600 dpi at actual finish size for best quality. Do not use lines that are less than ½ point thick.
Scanning Images
Some graphics may be images that you have scanned. In order to produce high-quality
images that will make a project look its best, follow these guidelines.
Line Art
Line Art may include black and white text, logos, or clip-art images. To ensure
image quality, it is important that line art be scanned at a higher resolution
than what is required for photographs. Wes-Tex recommends that line art be
scanned at a minimum of 600 dpi at actual finish size, but better results
can be achieved by scanning at 1200 dpi.
Photographs
Photographs should be scanned as grayscale images, and they need to be scanned
separately from line art. We recommend that photographs be scanned at a minimum
of 300 dpi and saved as grayscale.
If an image needs to be enlarged, it should not be scanned at its original
size and then enlarged. When this is done, resolution and image quality are
poor. Scan the image at 100% or more of the intended enlarged size. For example,
if the image is an inch wide and it needs to be three inches, scan at 300%.
It's always better to scan too large than to scan too small. We can reduce
an image with no loss in quality, but quality will be lost when enlarging a
lower-resolution scan.
Gradients
Whenever possible, we would recommend rasterizing gradients to ensure quality.
Location of settings may vary from application to application but should
be modified so that grayscale images are no less than 300 dpi at 120 lines
per inch.
Need help converting to postscript?
Check out the PDF & Postscript File Conversion
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