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We offer full colour offset printing of business cards, postcards, tickets, hang tags, letterheads, envelopes, stickers, flyers, rack cards, memo pads, posters, paper bags, NCR invoice pads, catalogs, presentation folders and anything else you might need.
Hot foil stamping uses heat and metallic film in a specialty printing process that produces a shiny stamp of your design on paper.
* Available colours: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Laser, Blue, Green, Magenta
The folding process presses a rule onto the paper mechanically to produce a fold without cracks. We do 3 types of folds:
- Bi-fold - A single fold is made at the center of the paper.
- Z-fold - Paper is folded in a back-and-forth motion, creating 3 panels.
- Wallet fold - A fold where a 3-panel piece is created by folding both side sections inward, one on top of the other. Each section is approximately 1/3 the length of the entire piece of paper.
All products are printed with the 4 colour CMYK* offset printing process, which is an industry standard method of printing full colour. During this procedure, small dots of CMYK* colour are printed on the paper in a precise layering forming a full spectrum of colours. The output of the colour image is of very high quality.
* CMYK represents Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
Always check your print-ready file thoroughly. Here’s a checklist of what to look for before you upload:
- Typing mistakes
- Art placement and Resolution
- Colour |LS|CYMK not RGB|RF|
- File Format |LS|Please save down to at least CS2 if using Adobe Creative Suite|RS| If any of these terms are confusing, please refer to our tutorial section.
Always check your print-ready file thoroughly. Here’s a checklist of what to look for before you upload:
Always upload print-ready files only. All files must have all links embedded, texts outlined, images flattened, colours converted to CMYK and everything must be set within the standards stated in our “How to Prepare” tutorial. It is the client’s responsibility to review the final proof and the layout of all orders prior to actual printing. Once the file is uploaded and the order has been confirmed by the client, no further changes can be made to that order.
If the print job has not started, it may be possible to cancel the order. However, in order to avoid receiving a cancellation fee*, you need to cancel your order on the same day it was placed.
*If a cancellation is made at least 1 business day after the order was place and if the printing process has not started yet, a $25.00 cancellation fee and 3% credit card return fee will be charged.
*If the printing process for your order has started, the shipping charge may be credited towards your next order.
All shipping costs are additional to the printing cost. Your shipping costs depend on the methods and options you choose. We offer the following shipping options:
Canada:
- UPS Ground / FedEx Ground
- Local Pick Up (Only available in Vancouver, B.C.)
USA:
- UPS Ground & Express / FedEx Ground & Express
No. All reseller or corporate account holders are responsible for the shipping fee. Resellers should include the price of shipping before they mark-up their resell price.
However, to save our resellers time, we help resellers do blind shipping with no extra charge.
Raster based artwork such as photos, or flattened artwork (from Adobe Photoshop) are made up of tiny squares (pixels) and depending on your resolution and/or final output size desired, the file could have a low quality end result. Any raster elements you wish to use should have a high enough resolution (DPI) before considering them for your large format product.
Vector based artwork such as illustrations or clip-art style elements (from Adobe Illustrator) is made with mathematical calculations, and can be scaled up to any size without losing quality. Keep in mind that any effects used in Adobe Illustrator are raster based and have transparency - this greatly adds to file size and you must have correct settings in your "Document Raster Effects Settings" to ensure best output for these effects. If you're doing a photo-quality print on a 36" x 48" poster, and leave the raster effects settings at default 72 DPI - you may see tiny squares in your drop shadows, as opposed to a smooth shadow.
We recommend saving as a .PDF. You may also send the file in the following types: jpg, jpeg, tif, tiff, eps, and png.
We prefer that you send .PDF with embedded or outlined fonts. .PDF's are easier to handle and will likely speed up your turn-around. Remember to add crop marks and flatten your files before uploading.
Bleed must extend past the cut-line and will be trimmed from the product during the final cutting phase. When the image is required to extend all the way to the edge, bleed is needed to preserve the finished look and the quality of the final product.
Please keep all text at least 0.16" inside the cut-line.
- The bleed for Standard Products is 0.16".
- The bleed for Booklets and Presentation Folders is 0.25".
Made In Print requires Print Ready files with proper rotation. Files submitted are printed HEAD to HEAD as-is based off your files.
Make sure to set up your files so that when we print them HEAD to HEAD the final product will read the way you would like. Also, front and back files need to be set up either both sides vertically or both sides horizontally.
For files not properly set up, Made In Print will use our best judgment and will not be responsible for improper rotation.
All large format products are non-refundable upon receipt, product inspection is required by the client and signed off for approval during product pickup. If you believe your print job is defective or has not otherwise met your requirements please contact Made In Print, IN WRITING via email, by phone or in person, within five (5) business days of receiving your order. If you do not contact us within this time frame we will assume that your job was satisfactory upon receipt and will be under no obligation to provide a refund or reprint. Once you have contacted us, we will then have five (5) business days to determine if a reprint or refund is appropriate, or to advise you that more information is needed to process your inquiry. If we request additional information to verify an inquiry and it is not provided within a reasonable time, we will be under no obligation to provide a refund or reprint. If we determined that a product is in fact defective or has not otherwise met our obligations, one of the following two resolutions will be offered:
- We will reprint the print job with rush production.
- We will refund in the form of in-house credit toward your next print.
Once a solution has been reached, the entire original print order must be returned to us. We reserve the right to request samples of any allegedly defective merchandise prior to either of the above resolutions being agreed to.