You're in the right place to learn how to supply your artwork ready for printing. Here you'll learn the basics. File Supply Essentials We want the same thing that you want. We want your graphic files to print correctly first time and look like you meant them to. Below are the minimum file supply essentials you need to follow. If you are designing something more complicated like a booklet or a StarMarque/Spot UV product, take a look at our detailed File Supply Guide or get in touch before starting your design. Is the Page Size and Bleed correct? Remember to check the you have set your page size to match the product that you are ordering. Some products may have special sizes or bleed requirements. Most products generally have 1.5mm bleed on each edge, but there are some exceptions such as Booklets and Large Format Posters. Artwork files should be supplied without crop marks. Files supplied without a bleed will be scaled up to create the required bleed, which may result in printed elements appearing closer to the edge than expected. Have you checked your Artwork Orientation? Always choose a template appropriate to the orientation of your design; it’s best to have text reading ‘upright’ on screen. If it’s not possible to design the text ‘upright’ (maybe, you need a landscape front and a portrait reverse), then you must ensure the generated artwork’s front and reverse are oriented as you need. (We impose Right to Left, place pages side by side to check the orientation of your document and view our examples here. Have you observed a Quiet or safe zone? The quiet or safe zone may vary depending on the product ordered, you’ll need to check that you don’t have any important elements in this area . For most of our products we ask that all important elements are 4mm away from the cut edge, or 5.5mm away from the page edge. Elements within this area may appear closer to the edge than expected when guillotined and often result in an uneven looking design. Designed margins The use of designed margins or uniform borders near the product edge is strongly discouraged because guillotine cutting is not accurate enough to ensure that margins will be of the same width on every edge. Even a 0.5 mm movement in the guillotine blade will make the margin look uneven. Our guillotine tolerances are ± 1 mm for Litho Products and ±2 mm for Digital and Large Format. Have you used the correct colour mode? When saving your file, ensur