The following guidelines are provided to help reduce art service charges. You can also lower these charges by using our STOCK ARTWORK or TYPESTYLES. 

SEND US THE BEST ARTWORK YOU HAVE

CAMERA READY - Always the best choice. This is generally black artwork on a white background. The lines are crisp
and have a thickness of at least 1.5 points.

DRAWINGS - Artwork supplied as a pencil sketch will need to be re-drawn in ink by our art department.

PHOTOCOPY - Generally photo-copies have to be re-drawn to make them camera ready.

GARMENTS - Clothing can be supplied as reference. However, fabrics stretch, shrink and distort the image. Please
try to supply us with a dark print on a light garment or a light print on a dark garment.

FAX - A fax is fine as a rough sketch or to indicate placement. The jagged edges and general distortion of a fax
almost always require additional work by our artists. Usually, the artwork must be re-created from scratch.

SIZE - Always send us the largest copy of your logo available.

INDICATING COLOUR - When showing us where colours are to be placed use a copy of the original and colour it in.
A tracing paper overlay is also fine. Arrows can be used but please use them on a copy and not the original artwork.

COMPUTER GENERATED ARTWORK

The Presto-Crest art department can handle computer generated artwork on both the PC and MACINTOSH
platforms with some restrictions. Please fax or send a copy of the artwork to insure that the computer file we
received is exactly how the final product should look. A .jpg file is also acceptable as reference only.

SENDING US COMPUTER FILES - You can send artwork files to our email address: prestocrest@tnt21.com
Also, we can work with both PC and MAC format 3.5" disks or 100 Meg ZIP Disks or CD-R media.

MACINTOSH FILES - Please save your design in Adobe Illustrator format (version 9.0 or lower).

PC FILES - Please save your design in CorelDraw (version 8.0 or lower) or Adobe Illustrator (version 9.0 or lower).

BOTH PLATFORMS - A vector .eps file is acceptable.

For a computer generated artwork file to be considered 'camera ready' the following criteria must be met: 

1) Coloured artwork should be supplied in a vectored (line-art) format. Raster file types such as .jpg, .gif, etc. must
generally be recreated from scratch by our art department before we can colour separate them.
2) All colours in your artwork should be SPOT COLOUR, not 4 COLOUR PROCESS (CMYK).
3) Each colour in the design should only be assigned one distinct Pantone number. Also, if your design includes
white please make sure that it has been assigned it's own Pantone number.
4) Please convert ALL text in your artwork file to curves (Corel) or outlines (Adobe Illustrator). If you are unfamiliar
with these terms consult your program documentation. This will eliminate the chance of the computer -
substituting the wrong type font at our end.
5) If your file includes 'placed' images please make sure you include them separately or embed them into the file
if your program allows it.
6) All line weights must have a thickness of 1.5 points or higher.

Any variation from these recommendations may result in an additional art charge as we have to spend time making
the artwork compatible with the screen printing process.