We offer comprehensive, affordable design services. Whether it’s a simple business card, a full colour laminated brochure, or a book with hundreds of pages, we can design it for you. Phone Daren and he will guide you through the process of turning your ideas into effective designs.

Design Portfolio

Artwork Guidelines

Please make sure your artwork and images are in the CMYK colour format with a minimum resolution of 180ppi (300ppi preferred). We can print spot colours and specific Pantone colours for offset jobs, though there may be some variation depending on stock. Give us a call and we’ll go through the available options.

A 3mm bleed is recommended for most work. If you’d like to save time and impose the work yourself, please use an SRA3 page size with margins of at least 15mm. For booklets and books, we prefer to impose the jobs ourselves to suit our workflow, so just prove the document with its standard page order and we’ll do the page-flipping.

Check that all fonts and images are embedded directly or included with the job. If you can’t supply the fonts due to licencing restrictions, please outline them (convert to paths).

We can accept files in the following formats (or older): Quark XPress 8, Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Adobe PDF, EPS, TIFF, JPEG.

We can work with Microsoft Office formats such as DOC, XLS and PUB, but would recommend against using these, if possible, as what they show on the screen often won’t match what actually prints. As such we may need to spend a bit longer with these files, so they may incur an extra charge.

We can receive artwork via e-mail up to attachment sizes of 20MB (contact Daren). For anything larger please split into multiple e-mails, if you can, or alternatively provide us with a CD or DVD.

If all this technical talk has your eyes glazing over, or you’re unsure of anything at all, please ring or email us and we’ll try to help.