You can request full custom designing. We can enhance or re-create a new product.
Setup Your Color
Printing Product

Let's make sure you get your artwork done correctly to take full advantage or our high quality production. Need help, just ask. You can email to sales@miranza.com.

| Color Printing Setup I Offset and Thermograph Printing Setup |
 
SETTING-UP YOUR FULL COLOR PRINTING JOB
This process is for full color process labels, full colour press printing.
To make things easy, we are going to use a business card as a sample product.
The principle is that 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 photo's or images you use are always are 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 is when your product seems printed to the edge.
If so following this 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" in 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.

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 to lines or curves and choose CMYK
Make sure to re-open the file yourself and see if it looks okay. Our system prints as you see it.
COREL We take up to version 13 (If you have a higher version, please save it as 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 so.
PSD PhotoShop files. Make sure to down save it to CS1 or lower.
1. Make sure all images are to CMYK
2. Convert your fonts to outlines or flatten your image.
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 and converting outlines or curves.
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 have your files setup correctly. Remember, we also provide design service for this 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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