FAQ & Specifications
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File Specifications
Where possible, please supply your document with bleeds and crop marks. We prefer at least 3mm of bleed on any document that needs to
be printed
right to the edge. Crop marks should be kept outside the bleed area.
Also ensure that your content isn't right on the edge of the page.
3-5 mm of margin around the inside of the
page edge for business cards and 10-15 mm
on the binding edge for manuals & books will ensure that none of your content is lost during cutting and binding.
Images in your documents should be at least 300dpi for best results. Lower resolution images will tend to look "pixellated" or blurry.
Colour Formats
To ensure accurate colour reproduction Fineline recommends supplying documents using CMYK colours. Our digital colour presses use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black ink to create colour images, rather than the Red, Green and Blue pixels on your computer monitor. Although we are able to print from RGB documents, the colours may vary from what you see on screen.
Click here for more information about colour modes
What is the best file format to send to Fineline?
PDF is the best format to send us to print. They require no additional files to be supplied, and if created correctly, will print exactly as you saw it on your screen, unlike other file formats like word .doc's and publisher .pub's.
Why can't you just use my Word document?
Word documents gather a whole lot of settings that relate directly to the printer that your computer has chosen as a default . Once you take that Word document off your computer and onto ours, it 'goes looking' for the new default printer and sets things up according to that printer's defaults. This could mean things like your margins change slightly, the space between each letter can change, and these things will cause your entire layout to reflow, causing it to look different to how you saw it on screen.
So how do I make a pdf?
You can print the file to distiller, if you have it, or you can use pdf writer, or pdf maker.
To print to distiller or pdf writer.
Before you create the pdf, you need to set distiller or pdf writer as your printer default. Ideally, you would make distiller/pdf writer your default printer before you create the document. That way, when you go to create the pdf file nothing will change because you change the printer default.
To change the printer default;
- Go to Start > Settings > Printers.
- Right-click Acrobat PDFWriter or Acrobat Distiller, and then choose Set As Default from the pop-up menu.
If you do this after you create the document, you need to check through and make sure nothing has moved or changed, and if it has, you need to make the changes required to make the document as you want it.
To create a PDF File in Word using distiller or PDFWriter
- Go to File > Print.
- Select Acrobat PDFWriter or Acrobat Distiller from the Printer Name pop-up menu.
- In the Print dialog box, select any printing options you want to use.
- Click OK, specify a filename and location for the PDF file.
It is important that you open your pdf file once it is created and check it against your original document. We can't edit your pdf, so if something is wrong you need to amend and recreate before you send it to us.
To create a PDF file in Word PDFMaker, either;
- Go to File > Create Adobe PDF, or
- Click the PDFMaker icon on the Word toolbar.
If you have trouble creating a pdf file, you can download some free software that is easy to use at http://www.primopdf.com
For further enquires please contact us on +61 2 9519 0552
or email sales@finelinensw.com.au.