Easy Setup Procedure
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Take advantage of high quality printing. Follow our setup procedure and you will be amazed at how your product can look.

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Easy Setup Procedure...

Take full advantage of our printing procedure. If your artwork is perfect, well your printed material will be amazing. Take full advantage of high quality PRESS printing.

Best of all at Miranza, all your artwork is reviewed to ensure that it is setup okay.

We handle two printing styles:

1. Full Color Process
 These are run on the Heidelberg® press using CMYK full color process. The technology has changed so much that you will truly be amazed at the vibrant colors. Registration is amazing and you don't have to worry about bleeds. Bottom line, you get an incredible price and high quality.

2. Traditional & Thermograph Raised Printing
 The process is very different. This process is great if you are only wanting to print 1 or 2 colours. Most popular with companies that have requirements to follow just the right ink colors and use the perfect Pantone® colors.  Others like to have texture stock with matching stationery.

Below we will show you how to correctly setup your artwork. If you need help or need a template, just ask. We can send one to you.

Templates available with all secure orders.
 
SETTING-UP YOUR
FULL COLOR PRINTING
 This process is for full color process labels and full colour press printing.
To make things easy, we are going to use a business card as a sample product.
The principle is the same for any products, just the size is different.

Remember, we print in full color process and that means that you don't have to separate your artwork, you don't have to worry about close registration, so that will make it very easy.

1. Make sure any photos or images you use are always at 300 DPI minimum.
2. Make sure that the image is converted to CMYK
3. Make sure all your fonts are converted to outlines or curves. This can also be done when you
    save your file.
4. Make sure that all your colors are converted to CMYK. Need help? We do offer conversion
    service. Just ask.

Does your artwork have bleeds?
Bleeds are when your product seems printed to the edge.
If so, use the following guidelines:

• The actual business card size is 3.5"x2"
• The size you see is 3.75"x2.25".
   The card will be cut at the yellow dotted line.
   This will give it the 3.5"x2" size.
• Make sure that all items that you
  don't want cut-off to be within 1/8"
  all the way around.
  The 1/8" margin is shown as white dotted line.
So for any product that you do, make sure to have an extra 1/8" extra all around and make sure to have all text within 1/8" from the cut area.
 

Now, Saving Your File:
For larger file sizes, please compress the files using WinZip or StuffIt.


PDF		 This is our preferred method.
1. Make sure that you choose High Quality or Press PDF
2. If it gives you an option choose convert text to outlines or curves
3. Make sure all colors are in CMYK
Make sure to re-open the file yourself and see if it looks okay. Our system prints as you see it.

.TIF		 This is a great method
Save your file as .TIF.
1. Use LZW compression
2. Save as CMYK and at 300 DPI
In this way, you won't have to worry about converting the fonts from the program to outlines or curves.

.EPS		 Encapsulated PostScript
Save your file as .EPS.
1. Make sure fonts are converted to outlines or curves
2. Make sure all colors are in CMYK
3. Make sure all images are at least 300 DPI
 

.AI

 Adobe Illustrator (up to version CS4)
Lower versions are fine.
1. Make sure that all the fonts are converted to outlines.
2. Make sure that all your images are converted to CMYK.
3. Make sure that all colours are converted to CMYK.
If you can't convert the fonts to CMYK, you can request our design team to do it for you.

.INDD

 Adobe Indesign (up to version CS4)
Lower versions are fine.
1. Make sure that all the fonts are converted to outlines.
2. Make sure that all your images are converted to CMYK.
3. Make sure that all colours are converted to CMYK.
4. Make sure to include all linked files and folders with your file
If you can't convert the fonts to CMYK, you can request our design team to do it for you.


.CDR		 CorelDraw (up to version X3)
If you have a higher version, please save as Version 13.  Lower versions are fine.
1. Make sure that all the fonts are converted curves.
2. Make sure that all your images are converted to CMYK.
3. Make sure that all colours are converted to CMYK.
If you can't convert the fonts to CMYK, you can request our design team to do it for you.

.PSD		 Adobe PhotoShop (up to version CS4) 
If you are using a lower version, that's fine.
1. Make sure your file is setup in CMYK
2. Convert your fonts to outlines or flatten your image.

MS Programs		 Microsoft® programs are not known for high design programs. If you really don't have a choice, you can have us convert the files for you. We will send you a PDF to check. There is a nominal charge of $50 for this service.
SETTING-UP YOUR
OFFSET FLAT OR THERMOGRAPH PRINTING
 This is for our labels and offset standard printing.
Offset printing is a traditional method of printing. Technically everything is handled as a black and white. We will give you a brief tutorial, so that you have your files setup correctly. Remember, we also provide design service for these products. Standard setup is about $35 per side, but the more separations, the more the cost is.

Some important basic tips:

  • Make sure the images are 300 DPI. Full color images should be turned into grayscale.
  • Avoid using JPEG files, since everything in that file will be considered as grayscale and solid colors will turn-out faded.

This is the separation:

 
Non - Separated
This card has a bleed. If your doesn't then you don't need the extra 1/8" going over.		 Blue Separated File
This only has everything that is in blue. You can see we need it in solid black.		 Black Separated File
Everything here is printed in black ink. The gray is actually a shade of black like half-tone.
File Name Sent
miranza.pdf		 File Name Sent
miranza1.pdf		 File Name Sent
miranza2.pdf
Remember, you don't need the dotted line, it is only there to show you the cut marks. Keep all text at least 1/8" away from the edge.
If you printed the above cards, here are some extra charges:
  1. The colors are very close and within 1/16". The extra cost on this is $40.
  2. There is a bleed, where the colors go past each side. 4 sides x $15 = $60.

To avoid the extra charges, you can have no bleeds and have the colors apart.

 
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