| Copy Pilot Design layout tips This page is to help with your layout so it's print ready when you send it to us. There is a separate page for Crop Marks Bleed - Bleed off Business cards 4 to a sheet post cards ( handbills) Posters Best way to send us a file is as a pdf. A pdf traps all the information and includes your fonts which we might not have. We use IBM compatible PC's and have Microsoft office 2007-2010, MS Works, Open Office, Creative suite 3. If it's not listed here we do not have it and will need it saved as a.. TXT, TIFF, JEPG... or as a word 2003.. Depending on your file and end purpose. First, all copier / printers have 1/8" deletion area around the edges of the paper. What that means is if your image is designed to the edge of a 8.5 x 11 sheet it will cut off (clip) 1/8th inch on all four sides of the paper. To get the whole image with out deletions is called a bleed off. You want all of the designed area print and remain in tacked. That will need to be printed onto the next bigger sized piece of paper and trimmed to fit. If a bleed off is desired you will want to extended the page 1/8th inch lager in all four directions and center it. You will want to keep you text about another 1/16th to 1/8th from the edges also..... |