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Specifications for Supplied Advertising - 2008
 
ADVERTISEMENT SUBMISSION
 
  1. Email - graphics@valumail.com (or)
  2. Upload to ftp1.courant.com (or)
    Please contact your sales representative for user name and password.
  3. Mail to: ValuMail, 285 Broad St, Hartford, CT 06115
 
 
File Type
 
- We prefer high-resolution PDFs
- Embed All Fonts
- Press or Print Resolution
- Don’t Downsample Images

- If you send native files, please supply all fonts
- Remember that logos and other images with text created in Illustrator, Freehand or Corel Draw use fonts. In these applications, you can convert the text to outlines/curves to avoid font issues.
 
 
AD CREATED ON PC
 
If an ad is created on a PC, you must convert the ad to a high resolution format (PDF, TIFF, EPS or JPG).
 
 
Photos & Resolution
 
Resolution - 300 dpi
Color - CMYK Only
Format - PDF, TIFF, EPS, JPG
 
 
SCANNING
 
Artwork Submitted For SCANNING
- Original photos and magazine quality prints will reproduce best
- Photocopied art, faxes, newspaper, etc reproduce very poorly
- If the picture looks bad to begin with, it will get worse when printed a second time around
 
 
MENUS
 
A typesetting charge applies to Menus, Letters, Testimonials, or any full page of text.
 
 
VALUMAIL'S PRODUCTS
 
Product Image Area Cut Piece
Wrap Full 8" x 10.325" 8.5" x 10.825"
Wrap Front 8" x 9" 8.5" x 10.825"
Wrap 1/2 8" x 4.9125"
Premium Full 8" x 10.4" 8.5" x 11"
Premium Half 8" x 4.9" 8.5" x 5.5"
Premium Oversized 9.5" x 10.875" 10" x 11.5"
DAL 8" x 4.5" 8.5" x 5"
ZIP Card 8" x 4.5" 8.5" x 5"
ZIP Plus 5" x 10.5" 5.5" x 11"
 
 
SOFTWARE USAGE - MAC FORMAT
 
  • Quark Xpress 7
  • Adobe Illustrator CS2
  • Adobe Photoshop CS2
  • Adobe InDesign CS2
  • We do not accept Corel Draw files