Print creative specifications

• PDF files should be created using Adobe Acrobat Distiller 4.0 or higher. 

• Files should be composite PDFs, not separated. 

• All fonts and images should be embedded and subset below 100%. 

• All mono and colour ads should have an effective resolution of 300 dpi (minimum). 

• Colour ads should be supplied as CMYK only (e.g. no RGB, Lab colour, ICC colour based or Pantone Colour). 

• Monochrome bitmap images (line-art) should have an effective resolution of 1200 dpi. 

• Half-tone dot range should be in the range of 3% to 95%. 

• Ads set to the type area should be surrounded by a box, and have no registration marks or catch lines. 

• Bleed ads should have crop marks set to the trim size dimensions, and will be trimmed accordingly. Please allow 3mm bleed on all four sides. 

• Any vector-based objects with transparency effect must be rasterized to 600 dpi in the source file itself, before creating the PDF.

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