Artwork Guidelines

Dongguan Jiurun Printing&Packaging Techology Co.,Ltd

Artwork Guidelines 

Take a look at our helpful guide for preparing print ready files to ensure there are no delays in processing your order…

1. SENDING YOUR PRINT READY FILES

We accept all files electronically. Please send orginal design artwork files to our sales.

2. FILE FORMATS

AI and PDF are the best format for you to provide your artwork, please make sure your images are at least 300dpi and all colours are correct.

Please be aware that files from the Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Publisher) are not designed for commercial printing.

If supplying original artwork all placed images (TlFF,EPs, JPEG) must be included within a clearly marked folder images or Links within the main artwork folder.

3. PAPER SIZE

Please set up the page size of your document at the exact size that you wish your job to print. Do not supply artwork floating on a larger page or include multiple items on the same page.

If necessary, we will draw the cutting line drawing of your packaging and send it to you. Help you complete the design more accurately and quickly. Our cutting line drawing is completely based on your customized packaging size and box shape.

4. BLEED & CROP MARKS

Bleed: If your design includes colour or images which are printed up to the edge of the page, please provide 3mm of additional artwork to all sides. This is called bleed. Bleed avoids the risk of white edges on your work.

Crop Marks: Show us the edge of your work so we know exactly where to trim it.

5. COLOURS

Process Colours are referred to CMYK.

• Pantone spot colours that are intended to be four colour process should be converted to CMYK using the Pantone+ Color Bridge® library.  
• Convert all RGB colours to CMYK as colour separations for printing cannot be made from RGB files.
• If your job is full colour, please ensure that you work entirely in CMYK.  If your program does not support CMYK or Pantone, we will need to convert your colours before printing.

Please bear in mind that monitors and desktop printers do not produce accurate representations of the press printed colour.

6. SCANS & IMAGES

All scans and images included in your artwork file should be supplied at least 300dpi in the correct colour mode at the placed size. If the images have embedded links, please send us the original images too.

Images and logos saved from websites are mostly between 72-96dpi and are therefore unsuitable for printing.  If you upscale or add resolutions to images in your image editing software, this will not increase the quality of the image and may result in blurry or bit-mapped images.  For example, a 300dpi image scaled to 400% when placed is only 75dpi!

We recommend using professional images as low quality images can only downgrade your design. 

7.FONTS

When supplying a PDF file, all the fonts should be convert text into curves. If supplying original artwork all the font files need to be included within a clearly marked folder within the main artwork folder.

8. CREATING A PRESS READY PDF

To prepare your files for print, for the best results we prefer to receive artwork as a press ready PDF.

• All PDFs should be set to high resolution to be press ready
• All PDFs must include 3mm bleed and crop marks
• All fonts need to be convert text into curves.
• Any process colours are converted to CMYK prior to creating a PDF. Converting spot colours to CMYK after creating a PDF may produce unexpected results (especially when transparent effects are involved)
• We recommend checking a PDF using the Output Preview prior to sending us your file. This can show overprinting and will list all the separations included