Preparing a perfect print file, explained simply.
Bleed, margins, resolution, colours: everything you need so your file prints exactly as you imagine. In doubt? Send it over — we check it for free.
Bleed
At production, your document is guillotine-cut in a paper stack. The blade can drift by a millimetre: if your artwork stops exactly at the edge, a white sliver can appear.
La solution : faites déborder votre visuel de 3 à 5 mm au-delà du format final. Cette zone « sacrifiée », c'est le fond perdu.
Resolution: 300 dpi
Une image nette à l'écran peut sortir floue ou pixellisée à l'impression. La règle : 300 dpi à la taille réelle d'impression pour tout document lu de près (cartes, flyers, brochures).
For large format seen from a distance (banners, panels), 100–150 dpi is enough — we guide you per material.
CMYK, not RGB
Your screen builds colours with light (RGB); our presses with ink (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black). Some very bright screen colours simply don't exist in ink.
Travaillez (ou exportez) en CMJN pour éviter les surprises. Un doute sur une teinte précise ? Parlez-nous de Pantone©.
Fonts: outlined or embedded
If we don't have your font, it gets substituted automatically — and your layout can break without anyone noticing before print.
Deux solutions sûres : vectoriser les textes (ils deviennent des dessins) ou exporter un PDF avec polices incorporées.
The right file: a high-quality PDF
The king of print formats is PDF (ideally PDF/X). It locks your layout, fonts and colours — what you see is what we print.
Word, PowerPoint or Canva? No stress: export to PDF, or send us the file and our studio adapts it.
Before sending your file
3 mm bleed
And text 5 mm from the edge.
300 dpi
At final print size.
CMYK
No RGB or neon colours.
High-quality PDF
Fonts embedded or outlined.
Overprint, blacks and ink coverage, foiling and spot UV, brochures, labels, large format — plus manufacturing tolerances and the role of the proof.
In doubt? We check your file for free.
Send us your file: we check bleed, resolution and fonts before printing. If something's off, we help you fix it.