Artwork Essentials
Standard Printing Formats and Their Dimensions
Even though standard paper formats were invented to make our lives easier and save time, we often end up having to look said formats and their dimensions up, and lose time doing it. As your online...
How to Set Up Black and Grey Elements in Your Artwork
It is time for some more knowledge about design and artwork closing on the Gogoprint blog today! The topic of the day will be how to set up black and grey elements in your artwork to ensure the hig...
Raster and Vector Graphics - The Differences
If you have already had the chance to work with different image/graphics formats, you know that there are many, many different ones available. The most important distinction between them all though...
PDF-X1a: The right format for printing
Now I can already hear you asking "What in the world is PDF-X1a ?!". Let me help you with that, and explain why it is actually an important format that you should be using for printing. As you migh...
Paper Weights and Refinements - What do they mean?
If one day you have been forced to make choices regarding paper weight and refinement without really knowing what that was all about, you are not alone. We get our fair share of phone calls and cha...
Converting fonts to curves/outlines - Why and How?
One of the main selling points of print materials is that you can endlessly customize everything about it: colours, images, their position in the artwork, text, fonts, etc. The way in which you cho...
Basic guidelines for setting up your artwork
To avoid forgetting to correctly configure some settings of your artwork file, it is always best to start working from the start on a file with the basic requirements already fulfilled. Mainly, you...
Bleed and Margins - What for?
Setting up bleed and margins in your artwork file before sending it in for printing is absolutely crucial because one can't ensure that digital and offset printing machines' will be accurate to the...
CMYK vs. RGB - what is the difference?
As most of you might know, CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) and RGB (Red, Green, Blue) are the color spaces used to generate a wide array of different colors that are used in a variety of settin...
