Paper Sizes & Poster Size Guide
ISO paper standards are widely used. Originally for the litho and screen print industries where sizes need to be fixed they are still used extensively in the large format digital printing market although Large format digital printers use rolls rather than sheets of paper.
This is due to the fact that most of the shelf display hardware for exhibition, retail and advertising are manufactured to take these set poster sizes. Poster frames, Billboards, Pavement signs come in set sizes.
Please ensure 3mm bleed is allowed where required.
Please ensure any text sits inside a text safe area of 5mm.
Ensure colours are CMYK. PMS and RGB colours are automatically converted and will generally produce undesirable results. Only use PMS colours if they are intended to be printed as such. This service is available at additional cost.
This is not offered as part of our standard service. The majority of orders are ganged together to achieve "economies of scale" and printed using industry standard density settings which may still produce a variation in colour, between print runs, due to atmospheric conditions and varying stock properties.
Your document size must be the finished size, based on trim marks, plus bleed.
Images should ideally be CMYK at 300dpi for the intended final size of the image.
Please be aware of the "Total Ink Cover" you intend using in your design. The heavier the cover the longer it will take to produce your job as this will affect trimming, folding and packing by potential scuffing. We recommend no more than 300% coverage out of a possible 400%. (i.e. CMYK @ 100% each). You may wish to consider a sealing coat if you have concerns. We do recommend this for matt stocks.
Create multiple page documents as a single .pdf file. e.g.
Double sided business cards: page 1 = front, page 2 = back
Always supply artwork 1 up. Orientation of PDF should match orientation of final printing. ie. Portrait finished job supply portrait PDF.
To ensure a nice rich black use the following values:
Black 100%, Cyan 50%, Magenta 10%, Yellow 10%.
Please convert text to outlines, curves or paths where possible. Do not use rich black for text. Use 100% black only.
To ensure a pleasing result we recommend not placing critical objects closer than 5mm from any trim line. Non critical images and colour may be placed to bleed beyond this and the trim line.
Watermarks or images used for similar purposes, should not be set at less than 8% total ink coverage.
