Artwork Requirements

 

To ensure timely workflow and best quality of work, it is important to receive existing artwork, ideas, engineered drawings, logos, images and related items from our customers in acceptable formats.  Our systems are Macintosh based.  PC artwork should therefore be saved in or exported to Adobe Illustrator (.ai or .eps) file format if possible.

 

 

Supported Applications and Formats

 

 

Applications

File Formats

Preferred vector drawing

Adobe Illustrator (Ver 8 or 9)

.ai

.eps

.pdf

.pct

Adobe Illustrator Document

Illustrator EPS

Adobe PDF

Macintosh PICT

 

Other drawing and page layout

 

Macromedia Freehand (Ver 4)

QuarkXpress (Ver 4.1)

  (accompanying files must be included

  with layout)

Corel Draw (some)

 

.fh8

Freehand FH4 – FH8

Image editing

Adobe Photoshop

.psd

.jpg

.tif

Photoshop 5

JPEG

TIFF

 

CAD

AutoCAD (some)

 

.eps

Illustrator EPS (elements must be grouped and exported from AutoCAD Drawing file (.dwg) or AutoCAD Interchange File (.dxf)

 

 

Other Requirements

 

Images, logos, scans, etc.

 

300 dpi or greater

Half tones

 

Screen resolution:  100 lpi

Text

 

.txt – Text Format

Fonts

Post Script (Adobe) or BT fonts with the accompanying file.  Post Scrip fonts are the standard for the graphics industry

 

Media

e-mail, Iomega zip disk (100 or 250MB), CD, 3.5” disk (Mac formatted)

 

 

 

Please e-mail artwork to: artdept@stanleymfg.com (with a copy to your account representative).  Please also send any accompanying linked files (pictures, images, logos or fonts) in the formats mentioned above.

 

 

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