Design Anthology
Production Specifications

Production contacts

Please email graphics@designanthologymag.com to submit your artwork or for production or technical support.

When supplying advertising material, please include the magazine name and issue number on the uploaded file. This will assist in keeping track of your advertisement. Ensure that the order of consecutive advertisements and left/right hand pages on double page spreads are noted in the material instructions. Please contact production prior to sending revised files and when sending revised files add an ‘R’ at the end of the file name.

acceptable media

High-resolution (175-line screen & minimum 300 dpi). Acceptable formats include pdf, InDesign, TIFF or EPS files in CMYK. Files to be supplied as single pages.

colour proofs

For accurate colour reproduction, all advertising material must be accompanied by a 3DAPv3 proof created from the supplied file at 100%. In order to verify that a proof is in compliance with the 3DAPv3 proofing requirements, each proof must be supplied with the appropriate 3DAPv3 endorsed control strip printed next to
the advertisement.

No responsibility will be taken for print quality or colour reproduction when a 3DAPv3 certified digital-approved proof is not supplied.Advertising material supplied without a proof may be proofed by Design Anthology at the advertiser’s expense. This proof will be supplied to our printers only.

page layout

All advertising material must include a 5mm bleed on all outside edges. No text or critical elements should appear within 10mm of the spine, as anything in this space may be optically lost within the spine binding. Using double imaging is at the discretion of the client/agency, as it is not ideal for all pages within the magazine. If specifications and measurements are required for double imaging, contact production prior to sending advertising material.

Ensure that all text and logos are supplied to the correct type/design area specifications.

spreads

The Publisher cannot guarantee the alignment of text or design along the centre fold line as adjoining pages can shift up to 5mm in the binding process of some copies.

images

Images to be supplied in CMYK format. RGB or LAB files will be automatically converted, but the Publisher takes no responsibility for the accuracy of such conversions. 4-colour black and white images should use a UCR separation.

For best results, images must be supplied at 100% scaling, 300dpi and with appropriate separation profile. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for the reproduction of imagery that does not meet these requirements.

Design Anthology will need to be notified if the resolution of an image is intentionally supplied lower than 300dpi.

colour / type / lines / borders

The total ink limit is 280%. Registration colour in the swatches palette should never be used as it is made up of 100% of each colour.

Solid black panels should be made up of rich black (100% black and 50% cyan). White elements to be set to knockout.

All fonts must be embedded into the PDF file.

Due to the trim and binding variance, even distances from trim to borders may vary during the print run; therefore, we recommend that solid borders be supplied no thinner than 8mm and key lines sit no less than 8mm in from the trim.