Need help setting up your brochure and Flyer print file?
Try our brochure and flyer print file set-up tips below, a place specifically here to help you set up your print file; and while there is a lot more content than we can fit into one page, we’ve covered what we consider to be the brochure and flyer print basics.
If you still need help setting up your brochure or flyer print file, email any questions to our prepress team at hola@vivalabrochureprinting.com.au.
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Web to Print
Also known as Web2Print, it's the remote publishing or print via e-commerce and is a broad term that refers to the practice of doing print business using web sites or online. I guess that means us. The growing popularity of the internet has opened up opportunities for commercial brochure and flyer printing companies to communicate with their customers to do things like submit print jobs, do online previews and manage content from online. Web-to-print increasingly calls for a Portable Document Format (PDF) workflow environment, with output provided by digital printing; although there is certainly no requirement that fulfillment be accomplished using digital production equipment; web-to-print is also used today by printers with both offset and digital production facilities. It is frequently possible for clients to upload their own unique content for automated print production. This may be termed Ad Hoc printing. When a press is used for the final output, the template usually is transformed into a PDF file that serves as the "master plate" for the press. Click here to contact us now and see how this can work for you.
Crops and Bleed
All printed elements that are not intended to bleed off the nd of your brochure or flyer should be a minimum of 5mm within the pages edge. This will ensure trim tolerances are maintained. Allow at least 5mm bleed for print components that do run off the pages edge.
Colours
Make sure all colours are nominated correctly as CMYK. Our online flyer and brochure printing presses automatically allow for CMYK, not PMS. CMYK is the abbreviation for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. These four standard colours, CMYK are used to mix and make any standard colour in the printing process.
Blacks
Solid black areas should be made up of 60% Cyan, 50% Magenta, 50% Yellow, 100% Black to give a stronger rich black colour. However this colour break up only applies on CMYK jobs. The previous rich black rule applies to large areas of black and not to fine text. Set fine text in 100% k to prevent registration allowance.
Images in print
All images must be saved as CYMK and 300dpi. RGB images will not be printed and 300 DPI stands for 300 Dots per Square Inch. Any images less than 300dpi will be less than high resolution.
Folding
To prevent paper cracking on the fold we recommend that you include the scoring option on your quote request with all stocks over 250gsm.
Font Paths
Before you upload any Flyer or Brochure Printing file to our system, you should have your designer outline or embed all the fonts.
PDF files
The PDF file format is by far the easiest and fastest way to send through your print file. Not only are PDF files complete (with no missing fonts or links) but they hold true colour management, trapping and open pre-press information. Most PDF files are also small enough that they can be uploaded directly to our online flyer and brochure printing tool.
Sending art via email
If you are sending your flyer or brochure art files through by e-mail, please make sure that you send it in response to the email quote you've received or with reference to the online quote or order number that our brochure and flyer print system has generated.
Urgent Deliveries
If delivery is urgent, please nominate the date requirement when quoting in the quote additional field, to check your deadline is achievable.