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The following guidelines have been developed to help you get the most out of your publication. We want you to be successful! We can help you adjust anything you see below and are standing by to answer any questions or concerns you have!

The guidelines below are based on offset lithography, which is the type of printing we offer and is a process that uses a combination of four process colors, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, generally noted as CMYK, to produce full-color publications. Spot colors, standardized by the Pantone Matching System®, are also available in offset printing.


Supported Files:

Oregon Web Press will accept native files, but we print from PDF. We support the following layout programs:

  • Preferred programs: Acrobat PDF
  • Acceptable programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
  • Not Supported: CorelDraw, Microsoft Publisher/Office, Freehand, QuarkXPress, and Paint


Photography

Make sure that each photo or image you include in your document are in CMYK format and not RGB. While RBG offers a greater color range and works well in designing for implementation online, it isn't as effective when going to press. If images are left in RGB mode, you can't be sure as to how your color will turn out once on press.


Image Quality

72 dpi (dots per inch) will not produce a quality image on press like it will online. Always be sure that each of your images is set to between 250-300dpi, or you may be disappointed with the end result.

Please use JPG, TIF, EPS, or PNG images if at all possible.

Please adjust resolution so that images are placed at or near 100% size in your layout.


Layout Considerations:

  1. Build logo and diagrams in Illustrator for best replication.
  2. Build multiple-page layouts in a page-layout program, such as InDesign.
  3. Keep multiple page layouts in the order you wish them to be produced and in Reader's Pairs.
  4. Type attributes such as bold or italic may produce unwanted results. It is more dependable to use the actual bold and italic font itself.


Bleeds

Make sure you add 1/4" to publications you want to "bleed." This means that the color runs off the edge of the paper, leaving no border. The publication is trimmed in post-production to the size you need.


Need Help? Be sure to call us and let us help. We can walk you through all of the Pre-Press Guidelines and even help you get your native file "print ready."