Artwork
We at Vavoom Promotions consider ourselves' industry leaders in Creative Concepts and Marketing Strategies. We take pride in our ability to imprint a corporate logo or personalized graphic on just about any product or surface. However, a graphic designed for full-color imprinting on a catalog or for use on a Web site may not be what's required for a three-dimensional product in one color. Artwork is considered "camera ready" when it can be used for prepress and printing without the need for modifications that might incur extra charges or cause delays. Too often, when the order reaches the point of production is it discovered that the artwork is not of a sufficient quality or type required to produce the products. At that point, additional charges may be necessary.
Acceptable Printing
If logo imprint is desired, electronic file must be provided. We require that art be created Adobe Illustrator® (AI, EPS). We must have a "high resolution" file to make the very best clear screens for your printed items. When working with special fonts be sure that you have selected that the artwork has been "created to lines" to be sure we can duplicate the fonts. E-mail artwork to artwork@vavoompromotions.com. Contact name, phone number, order number and company name must be included in the e-mail message. Files must be under 2 MEGS or please compress before emailing. Please call us if your file is too large to email so we may make other arrangements for you.
Not Acceptable
Business cards, letterheads, faxes and laser prints are NOT acceptable. PDF, DOC, PUB, TIF, BMP, JPG and GIF file formats are NOT acceptable. If you must send files created in Microsoft Word, Publisher or PowerPoint, we can re-create and re-draw them in the correct artwork resolution for an art charge.
Standard Art Charge
If we need to recreate your design and get it ready for high resolution printing a standard fee of $100 dollars will apply. If the design is highly complex, the customer is subject to the hourly fee of $70 dollars per hour for art development.
Digitizing
Digitizing is the art of laying stitches or threads over your logo so that it can be embroidered. To avoid a digitizing fee you must submit your logo in a .DST file, along with your PMS colors and a JPG of your logo. The standard digitizing fee is $8.00 per 1,000 stitches.
If We Need To Digitize Your Logo
If we need to digitize your logo you may submit any following type of files as acceptable artwork to get it ready to be digitized. You may submit an EPS, AI, PDF, TIF, BMP, JPG or a GIF file. Business cards, letterheads, faxes and laser prints are NOT acceptable. If you must submit them you will be subject to the standard $100 dollar art charge, and then be charged the digitizing fee.
COMPUTER GENERATED ARTWORK
This is the best alternative for submitting your art. Digital artwork guarantees the highest quality of imprint possible. We operate on Apple Macintosh & PC platforms and accept files saved for the following applications. We prefer PC files:
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Adobe Illustrator 10.0.3: Convert all type to "outlines"; include all placed EPS or TIF files in the same directory; Note: the native file format for this version is PDF what may require conversion to EPS and, consequently, additional charges may apply; to avoid this charge, save the files as version 8.0 or earlier);
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Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1: For 4-Color Process: files must be saved as TIF, EPS or BMP formats, in CMYK mode, at minimum resolution of 300 dpi with print size set at 100%; for silkscreen imprint: each color should be separated in one file with registration marks (and trapping, if applicable) and files must be Black-&-White, TIF format, in Bitmap mode (50% threshold) at 1200 dpi;
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Macromedia FreeHand 7.0: convert all type to "curves"; include all placed EPS and/or TIF files in the same directory (see above for EPS and TIF formats specs);
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Adobe Pagemaker 6.5: send all fonts (screen & print) used in the document; include all EPS and/or TIF files used in the same directory (see above for EPS and TIF formats specs);
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Quark XPress 4.1.1: if working on Mac, send all fonts (screen & print) used in the document ; include all EPS and/or TIF files used in the same directory (see above for EPS and TIF formats specs);
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Attention: any artwork created on different operating systems must be converted to EPS, TIF or BMP format before submitted (we cannot perform this conversion). We DO NOT accept computer generated artwork in MS Word, MS Office, MS Publisher, PowerPoint unless we are re-creating the art for our standard fee of $100.
