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Compatibility List


If you would prefer to produce your own artwork and/or supply it to us, then the following may act as a guideline.

Operating Systems

We can read disks in the following operating system formats:

  • Macintosh (compatible with System 8.5)
  • Windows (all FAT versions and NTFS)
  • Unix (Linux, Solaris, BSD and others)

Disk Formats

We can read the above formats on the following disk types:

  • Floppy disk (3.5 inch only up to 1.44mb)
  • Iomega Zip disk (up to 100mb)
  • CD-Rom
  • CD-Writable
  • CD-Rewritable

Programmes / Applications

We can output files from the following programmes (categorised by operating systems).  Please note that although we can not output as we require from every programme, we are able to convert them to a format that is compatible.

Macintosh

Windows
Quark XPress (up to version 4.1) Quark XPress (up to version 4.03)
Adobe Photoshop 5 Adobe Photoshop 5
Macromedia Freehand 7  
  Corel Draw! version 8
Adobe Illustrator 6 Adobe Illustrator 7
Adobe Acrobat (up to version 4) PDF Adobe Acrobat (up to version 4) PDF
  Microsoft Office 97 (Word & Excel only)
Adobe Postscript (raw, up to level 3) Adobe Postscript (raw, up to level 3)
Encapsulated Postscript (up to level 3) Encapsulated Postscript (up to level 3)
  Adobe Pagemaker (up to version 6.5)

We may also be able to output other formats.  Please speak to a member of our prepress staff beforehand.  We would prefer jobs to be un-imposed.   Please include all necessary fonts for the job, as due to the vast number available, it is possible we may not have some (or all) of the fonts.

Images supplied with the job should be in either CMYK (400dpi or greater), Greyscale (400 dpi or greater) or line art (B/W 1200 dpi or greater).   Image resolutions are given as a rough guide (for example 250dpi is just adequate for CMYK and Greyscale).  Lower resolutions will result in a 'blocky' appearance.   We prefer images to be in TIF format for compatibility.  Please bear in mind that RGB images will not convert accurately into CMYK.  We can accept drawings in a variety of formats including encapsulated Postscript, or raw Postscript.

If the information here is not clear, or you have another type, then please contact us.