THE LABEL COMPANY offers the benefits of an internal electronic prepress department. We design on Power Macintosh computers with output to color laser printer. This is what the folks in our art department say they prefer when you're ready to send us your art work:

" We would really like have art work come to us as an Adobe Illustrator vector art file with all fonts turned to curves." Ok, here's how you do that.

Guidelines for supplying computer generated artwork

PREFERRED PROGRAMS:

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

OTHER ACCEPTABLE PROGRAMS:

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Save with layers as a Photoshop doc. (.PSD) JPEG (.JPG) and TIFF (.TIF) can only be used for one color art and should be created and saved with 300 dpi or higher resolution. Any art of more than one color that is not editable usually will be considered a 4-color process job.

Freehand: Export file as Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Corel Draw: Export file as Adobe Illustrator (AI)

Acrobat Reader: Save retaining editability (.PDF)

Font Information: All type must be converted to line art, also called vector art, paths, curves or outlines. This is when type is no longer editable as type but each letter becomes an integral part of the art.

Note: THESE ARE JUST GUIDELINES AND ARE ALWAYS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. We will assist you on any problems that may arise.

WE CAN READ FROM:
3.5" Diskettes
CD-ROM
ZIP 100 Disc

COMPRESSION UTILITIES:
Stuffit; Zip

PROOFING: Your proof can be supplied on Paper (Laser Printer) in B&W or Color or by Email. Color Press Proof can be ordered at an additional cost. We accept IBM or Mac formatted disks and files. Please send or fax a hard copy along with your file. And don't forget to include any fonts and placed graphics that are needed for the artwork.