Our swing tags can be printed digitally or litho and are provided cut to size and hole-drilled. Additional features such as embossing, foil blocking and bespoke die cutting are also available.
Swing Tags
Paper stock
350gsm silk
350gsm matt
350gsm matt
350gsm Conqueror
GF Smith paper collection
GF Smith paper collection
Printing Processes
Digital or Litho
Finishing
Matt Lamination
Hole-drilling
Die-Cutting
Foil-Stamping
Hole-drilling
Die-Cutting
Foil-Stamping
ARtwork
Standard artwork size:
Wide range of artwork size from 85 x 55 mm up to A6 (148 x 105 mm).
press-ready specifications
PRESS-READY PDF
- Manually select 'Print' and choose the 'Press Quality' setting
- Add crop marks (outer corner marks, not full colour bars) outset by 6 points, so they do not touch the cut size of the document
- Include bleed
APPLICATIONS AND FONTS
- Optimise your PDF for print (300 dpi images)
- Embed your fonts or outline
- Any ultra light, light or Thin fonts change to outline
- Choose "Press Quality" when creating your PDF
COLOUR
- Artwork should be CMYK or greyscale
- Please be aware that screen colours (RGB) may appear duller or lacking in contrast when printed
SCANS AND IMAGES
- Colour images should be CMYK colour mode
- Scanned or bitmapped images should be 300 dpi
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- We accept files saved using one of the following software: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- For the Adobe packages please save all files with the outlined fonts.
- Files created in one of the Microsoft packages usually get better results if they’re saved as pdfs.
- To help as many people as possible, The London Printers accepts a range of different formats. These are: JPEG, PNG, PDF.
- For the photography artwork we would recommend high resolution JPEGs (preferably un-compressed).
- For Graphics or Text files please save it as print-ready, vector based PDF.
- For a mix of graphics and photography artwork the best solution would be print-ready PDFs.
BLEED REQUIREMENT
- The usual bleed requirement is 2mm all round