Artwork

We have talented designers who will turn your concept and ideas into eyecatching artwork, or we can work with your artwork files.

We've found that over the years, more and more customers are bringing usfiles that are 'print ready' or almost 'print ready', which obviously saves a great deal of time and money.

We can digitally printed direct from your PDF of JPEG file. file at the checkout (or email it seperately to studio@lakelandsignandprint.co.uk quoting the order number)

Please pay careful attention to the following guidelines:

We pride ourselves in offering a high quality and fast turnaround service but we can only do this if you provide artwork files in accordance with the guidelines below. Failure to follow these guidelines will almost certainly delay your order and/or incur extra costs.

If you have any questions please give us a call on 01524 841726 or email us at studio@lakelandsignandprint.co.uk.

The prices shown are for your artwork to be supplied in a "ready to print" format.

We accept artwork files from various Windows programmes as detailed below. However, for each file/program type please note the format requirements:

Adobe Photoshop - minimum 300dpi at full size, CMYK colour profile, flattened, no layers, saved as a .TIF, .EPS or .JPG.

Adobe Illustrator - include all images used (minimum 300dpi at full size), convert fonts to outlines to avoid font conflict, save as .AI or .EPS.

Corel Draw - include all images used (minimum 300dpi at full size), text should be converted to curves, files should be saved as .EPS.

.pdf - press or print optimised, CMYK colour format, embed all fonts to avoid font conflict

.jpeg - these should be high resolution images, minimum 300dpi at full size.

.tiff - minimum 300dpi at full size, LZW compression should be turned off.

.bmp - minimum 300dpi at full size.

Artwork that is not supplied in the correct format will incur an extra design charge at a minimum of £15 (you will be notified by telephone or email prior to any work being carried out).

Please note: that Microsoft Publisher, Word and PowerPoint are not graphics or publishing packages, and you would not thank us for trying to convert them due to the cost and variable results.

Supplying us with correct, ready to print artwork is your responsibility. Please check your artwork carefully before submitting it to us as we cannot be held responsible for print errors or delays where artwork has been supplied incorrectly.