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REQUIREMENTS FOR SENDING A HARD COPY |
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If you are unable to email us an original art file, your final product will still turn out looking great if you can provide us with an advertising slick or high quality, black and white laser printout of your logo and text. "High quality", in this case, means printed from a high d.p.i (dots per inch) laser printer. Regular copies from a copying machine will not work due to the poor quality of the reproduction. Art designed in or printed from word processing programs such as Microsoft Word will not work either because of the jagged - rather than smooth - edges that result. |
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| If you do not have a "clean" copy to provide us, please notify us of what you do have and we can evaluate whether it can be "cleaned up" by our graphic artists. We must charge for this time, but cost rarely exceeds $25.00. |
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If you have a clean logo but need us to add text for you (such as "Class of 2###" or "Alumni Association", we can do this for you as well. The cost of this and a faxed paper proof for your approval averages $15.00 - 20.00. If you have a specific font, size, or arrangement of the text that you prefer, we encourage you to sketch or layout in a word processing program what you are envisioning and fax that to us at (678) 482-0771. |
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If your art is more than one color, you should submit it color separated. "Color separated" means there is a separate black and white print showing which part of your logo should be printed in blue, which part in red, etc. These printouts are used to make the printing plates for each color, which when combined, form your final imprint. Providing us with an actual size, color printout or composite of what the final design should look like is helpful. |
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Your black and white printouts should be actual size or, preferably, larger. This is because, with printing, it is always possible to reduce a piece of art, thereby increasing its "crispness". When an original is blown up, on the other hand, the dots which make up the image (d.p.i.) become more visible and the image made fuzzy. |
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If you are submitting a hard copy of your artwork, we STRONGLY encourage you to send it via a trackable method such as Fedex™ or UPS™. Art sent via the US Post Office 2 Day Priority Mail has been known to take twice that long and cannot be tracked to know if it is lost or just late. If you need your product by a specific deadline, it is well worth the few extra dollars for express shipping your art upfront to insure that a postal delay doesn't cause you to have to pay express shipping for boxes and boxes of product on the back end! |
Regardless of the method you choose, make sure you use the hard cardboard envelopes offered by all of the above services. Art sent in a paper or Tyvek™ envelope often arrives with bends and creases in it rendering it unusable and delaying the beginning of production on your orderl.. |
Before sending your art, please: |
1) Place your order with us and wait to receive a copy of your typed up order proof. It will contain the internal purchase order number (different than your bill to PO#). You will need to mark this on both the art and the envelope. In this email, we will also include the mailing address of the art department for the product you're ordering. |
2) Please fax to (678) 482-0771 a copy of the art you're sending with the ship day and method noted on it so that we'll know when we should be expecting it and can follow up with you to confirm its arrival and a date your art proof should be ready (if applicable). |
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Although providing camera-ready art can sometimes be the most tedious part of the order process, we do everything possible to make it as easy as it can be. Our overriding priority is to make sure that you're going to be completely satisfied with your final product when it arrives. Reproducing from high quality art is essential to that. |
If you have any questions at all, please e-mail us at art@greatgiftsforschools.com or, if you prefer, call us at (678) 482-2910. We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to work with you on this project! |