Any transparency issue can be resolved before saving your file. To prevent transparency issues, never use shadows, glows, or any other transparency (image or otherwise) on top of a spot colour. Always convert your spot colours to CMYK and flatten before creating your print ready pdf.
Rich black is an ink mixture of 100% black, with additional CMY ink values. This results in a darker tone than black ink alone. If you print black alone as 100% black, the resulting black may not be as dark as you might like. We recommend using C 60 M 40 Y 40 K 100 [...]
When a job is coated with UV then scored and folded the job may begin to crack. During use, the cracks will become bigger and the ink may start to chip off. Cracking is normal when coated jobs are scored and folded. Ordering the job without UV will help but may not prevent this. As [...]
We recommend you send to us PDF files for all printing projects. PDF check list: Print ready pdf Trim marks are visible and also Bleeds, if needed, are visible All fonts are embedded or subset Only high resolution images or 300 DPI images were used in the design Single page PDF’s – [...]
Trade printers are wholesale printers who only sell printing to commercial printing companies and print brokers. Most trade printers specialize in a particular form of printing and as specialists they fine tune their specific printing process to a work of art. They use the latest printing technology, have no sales staff and purchase their paper [...]
Design Creative Media is a web based printing company so our overhead is low and is reflected in our prices. All of our printing is printed with the very best trade printers using the latest printing technology designed for your particular printing requirements. When you specialize in a type of printing process and use the [...]
No. Our courier providers only deliver to street addresses.
Your local brick & mortar printing company will try to print your job on their printing presses if they can. But the problem is, they will do this even if their printing equipment isn't designed for your type of job. It will still work, kind of, but the end result is less than spectacular and more [...]
A design estimate is our best educated guess at the final price to complete the project. It is based on the information we have and our experience working on similar projects. Please keep in mind the larger the design project and or the complexity of the project, make it increasing more difficult to estimate. A [...]