Artwork Requirements

This page contains detailed explanations of our artwork requirements. If it is your first time ordering with us we recommend reading through these requirements carefully.

If you have any questions or cannot find what you are looking for, please send us a message to info@zenprint.ie

Before submitting your artwork, please check that:

●Your artwork is the correct size and is imposed 1-up, not as spreads.
●For folded jobs artwork should be supplied at the flat size. E.g. An A3 folded to A4 brochure should be supplied at A3 size (297 x 420mm) and not as A4 sized pages.
●Your artwork contains correctly set Safe Line and External Bleed.
●Your artwork is set using CMYK colours.
●All rich blacks are set to C =20%, M = 20%, Y = 20%, K = 100%.
●All fine black text is set to C=0%, M=0%, Y=0%, K=100% and is set to overprint.
●All fonts are outlined (converted to curves) or embedded.
●All links are embedded.
●Your artwork does not contain any instances of white set to overprint.
●Ink coverage does not exceed 300% (260% for uncoated stocks).
●To reduce the possibility of small/thin lines & text breaking up, we recommend all lines are at least 0.3pt wide and where possible text should be at least 8pt using a non-narrow, non-ultra light or non-thin style font.
●To reduce the possibility of uneven borders & strips, we recommend borders and strips in your artwork are at least 5mm wide or 5mm in from the trim edge.
●We recommend images in your artwork are 300dpi when placed at 100%. Please note that increasing the dpi in Photoshop does not increase the resolution of an image.
●All transparencies are flattened.

Accepted File Formats
Where possible, we always prefer Press Ready PDF files.

For a full list of Not Press Ready file types we can accept, please see below:
●Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf)
●Illustrator files (.ai)
●Photoshop files (.psd)
●InDesign files with all links and fonts embedded (.indd or .idml)
●EPS files
●Word Documents (.doc, .docx) [Please note that Word does not allow you to save high resolution images or to use external bleed]
●Publisher files (.pub)
●Image file formats (.bmp, .tiff, .jpeg, .png, etc…)

Artwork Size
Please find a list of the size specifications we offer (in millimeters) below:

Business Cards	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
Standard	85 mm x 55 mm	91 mm x 61 mm
Folded-Landscape	170 mm x 55 mm	176 mm x 61 mm
Folded-Portrait	110 mm x 85 mm	116 mm x 91 mm

Flyers	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
A6	105 mm x 148 mm	111 mm x 154 mm
A5	148 mm x 210 mm	154 mm x 216 mm
DL	99 mm x 210 mm	105 mm x 216 mm
A4	210 mm x 297 mm	216 mm x 303 mm
A3	297 mm x 420 mm	303 mm x 426 mm

Tri-Fold Flyers	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
A4 Roll-Fold A4 Z-Fold A4 Gate-Fold	210 mm x 297 mm	216 mm x 303 mm
A3 Roll-Fold A3 Z-Fold A3 Gate-Fold	297 mm x 420 mm	303 mm x 426 mm
140 mm Square Roll-Fold 140 mm Square Z-Fold	140 mm x 420 mm	146 mm x 426 mm
140 mm Square Gate-Fold	140 mm x 280 mm	146 mm x 286 mm

Half-Fold Flyers	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
A3 Half-Fold	297 mm x 420 mm	303 mm x 426 mm
A4 Half-Fold	210 mm x 297 mm	216 mm x 303 mm
A5 Half-Fold	148 mm x 210 mm	154 mm x 216 mm
2 x Dl Half-Fold	198 mm x 210 mm	204 mm x 216 mm
140 mm Square Half-Fold	140 mm x 280 mm	146 mm x 286 mm

Invitation & Postcards	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
A6	105 mm x 148 mm	111 mm x 154 mm
A5	148 mm x 210 mm	154 mm x 216 mm
DL	99 mm x 210 mm	105 mm x 216 mm
140 mm Square	140 mm x 140 mm	146 mm x 146 mm
148 mm Square	148 mm x 148 mm	154 mm x 154 mm
A4 Half-Fold	210 mm x 297 mm	216 mm x 303 mm
A5 Half-Fold	148 mm x 210 mm	154 mm x 216 mm
2 x Dl Half-Fold	198 mm x 210 mm	204 mm x 216 mm
140 mm Square Half-Fold	140 mm x 280 mm	146 mm x 286 mm
148 mm Square Half-Fold	148 mm x 296 mm	154 mm x 302 mm

Posters	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
A2	420 mm x 594 mm	426 mm x 600 mm
A1	594 mm x 841 mm	600 mm x 847 mm
A0	841 mm x 1189 mm	847 mm x 1195 mm
B2	500 mm x 707 mm	506 mm x 713 mm
B1	707 mm x 1000 mm	713 mm x 1006 mm
B0	1000 mm x 1414 mm	1006 mm x 1420 mm

Voucher	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
A5	148 mm x 210 mm	154 mm x 216 mm
DL	99 mm x 210 mm	105 mm x 216 mm

Bookmark	Finished size (mm)	Size inc. 3 mm bleed
Short	55 mm x 148 mm	61 mm x 154 mm
Long	55 mm x 210 mm	61 mm x 216 mm

Envelope	Finished size (mm)
C6	162 mm x 114 mm
DL	220 mm x 110 mm
C5	229 mm x 162 mm
C4	324 mm x 229 mm

Blacks & Rich Blacks

Fine Black Lines & Text
We recommend that fine black text & lines are
set to: C=0%, M=0%, Y=0%, K=100%.

Rich Black
For a full rich black we recommend you use the
combination of: C=20%, M=20%, Y=20%, K=100%.

Photoshop Default Black
Please do not use Photoshop Default Black in your artwork (C=75%, M=68%, Y=67%, K=90%). It is suitable for web sites & screen presentations; however it is not appropriate for commercial printing.

Bleed

Bleed is the area extending past the Trim Line which allows for a small amount of movement that may occur when your order is being cut to size. All elements which extend to the trim edge must also extend to the external bleed margin.

Safe Line

Please ensure that all borders (including partial borders/strips) are at least 5mm in width and/or placed 5mm inside the Trim Line on all sides.

Crops Mark

Crop marks, also known as trim marks, are thin lines printed in the corners of a document to indicate where the paper should be trimmed after printing.

Image Resolution

A common printing mistake is to set the image resolution too low or too high.

We recommend all images in your artwork are set to 300dpi when placed at 100% size.

Fonts

Please ensure all fonts in your artwork are embedded. If this is not possible please ensure fonts are outlined (converted to curves).
We recommend all fine black text or lines are set to: C=0%, M=0%, Y=0%, K=100%.