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Fairhall & Bryant

Here to provide quality printing solutions, on time and within budget

FAQ

 

Printing Terms

 

CMYK

Full colour printing using Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black (K) inks.

Pantone Spot Colours

Individually mixed colours to a pantone colour mixing chart, generally more vibrant than its CMYK rendition.

 

FSC

Paper produced under Forestry Stewardship Council Guidelines.

 

PDF

Portable document file, artwork is normally supplied to us in this format, it enables the artwork creator to encapsulate all pictures & fonts within the file. However colours need to be specified as CMYK, Pantones or CMYK plus additional pantones, bleed & crop marks also need to be included at the output of the pdf.

 

Images

Images need to be of a resolution of 300 Dpi anything less could lead to a pixelated image, 72 dpi is fine for a computer screen but is not of a resolution required for printing.

 

Paper Types

 

Art paper

Paper or board that has a fine coating of china clay applied to give a smooth printing surface, these can be a gloss or silk finish.

 

Uncoated Paper

Paper that has no china clay coating and ranges from copier paper to high quality cartridge drawing paper.

 

NCR (no carbon required)

Also known as carbonless used for multipart sets where copies are required of what is written on the top sheet.

 

Email: info@fabprint.co.uk

Phone: 01903 751999

Unit 1 Wayside,

7 Commerce Way,

Lancing,

West Sussex

BN15 8SW