Requirements for all Replicated Cards and CD's. If you would like to order any of the replicated cards or CD's, please note that we will require the following from you: A CD containing the master copy of your presentation/software. This must be exactly as you wish it to appear on the Card/CD. We can do this for you, if you do not have the means to do so in-house. A seperate CD containing a copy of the artwork for the face of your card or CD (see full details below). For those wanting the cards, a template is provided at the bottom of this page for you. Please feel free to test out some artwork ideas using this template above. Right click your mouse when the pointer is over the image, and save to your hard drive. This is a jpeg file, and should only be used when you are playing around with ideas. To create the actual artwork for your project, you must follow the guidelines below. We require all artwork to have been created in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Details for both are as follows: Illustrator needs to be 300 dpi minimum with the following exact printed dimensions, which leaves a 1mm border around the entire cd. The inner hole is 24mm on all of our products. (Click here to download a 40mb template created in Illustrator 7): 30 mb - 84mmx54mm 40mb - 84mmx56mm 50mb - 84mmx58mm Photoshop is the same with 300 dpi for all images in the design. They must start out at 300 dpi and never get bumped up from something smaller. As well, the artwork size must be printable at the following dimensions: 300 dpi minimum 8.4cm x 5.6cm 2.4cm opening in the center for the hole Save all layers separated (never flattened or merged together) Do not save final artwork as tiff, jpeg, gif,or eps, only as a photoshop native file or .psd We will round off the corners of the card for you, so please leave the artwork rectangular. We like to round off the corners of the card to follow our cutting lines of the cd. You do not have to place the hole in the center, we can do that if you need us to. All artwork for Illustrator and photoshop must be in CMYK from the start and not RGB. Designers will know the difference but newcomers into media do not. Try making some artwork and call up a company that makes film/negative for printing purposes, and you can actually print a proof of your artwork form a service bureau in your area. You can then see what CMYK looks like, as your monitor can only show RGB which is totally different color schemes and chroma. In RGB, Bright Red when converted to cmyk has this value C=0 M=99 Y=100 K=0 which is wrong, it is not red it comes our bright tangerine orange every time, even on a regular paper offset press. The monitor shows red but the cmyk value is completely different. Real red for offset printing has the correct value below for red: C : 0 M : 91% Y : 87% K : 0 You might even want to supply the film yourself which will be close to the £70.00 fee we charge. You just find a service bureau for printers who all they do is pull film. You tell them to make your film with the emulsion side down. They will pull all 5 layers and give you a print proof which will be 99% accurate to what we will make, and you will see how different the proof looks compared to your monitor and even how different it looks that the inkjet or laser printer. Once you find a film company, you can then control and change the colors until you like the printers proof colors. Our printing is at 150 LPI in case the film bureau asks, which they will need to know. Even thought the artwork is 300 DPI, the offset is 150 LPI. In very rare circunstances is can be 180LPI which is the finest in the world and very hard to keep the machine clean. Also, background images can be a tiff, and the rest can be words or line imaged in Illustrator. You can then make a path and use the tiff as your background, but you cannot save the whole file as an .ai without the background being supplied separately, you must also supply the tiff as well. If you also have a negative from a photograph, that can be used for very high definition images.