Submitting Artwork

KLC offers a variety of ways to receive your artwork. All files are run through FlightCheck 2.3 to check for possible problems. Due to the complexities of process files, our quoted pricing assumes that your project will meet the following criteria:

Printing Capabilities

KLC prints using flexography. As we must build traps and distortions into the art for the flexographic process, we prefer art in digital format. KLC has multicolor capability of 150-line.

Computer Specifications/Capabilities

We use a Power Macintosh G4 running OS X. We accept both Macintosh and PC formatted media and prefer CDs or FTP for large files. We output on a Agfa Imagesetter at 2400dpi in-house. Our preferred line screen is 150-line.

Software Compatibility

The following computer programs are used to produce 4-color process at KLC:

Quark Xpress 6.0
Adobe Illustrator CS3

We also have the following computer programs, but we do not use them for producing 4-color process artwork because of the critical step and repeat and distortion we need for the flexographic process:

Adobe Photoshop CS2
Aldus FreeHand 8
Aldus PageMaker 6.5
CorelDraw 9

File Specification

We prefer application files over encapsulated postscript files so we can edit them. We need the fonts used to be included in the file. We expect traps (overprinting of one color over another) of at least .5 point wherever close registration of two colors meet, otherwise we can not be responsible for art not registering perfectly. Word Processing files (Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, etc...) are not suitable for quality art and cannot be used as artwork. All color scans must be in a higher scan resolution of at least 150dpi (72 dpi resolution files are not usable). All bitmap files must be in CYMK format and not RGB.

Negatives and Hard Copy

We can only accept computer files for use with 4-color process; negatives and hard copies lose too much detail in the distortion process.

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