Magazine production guidelines

On Site is printed by United Litho Inc. on 60 lbs. #3 coated text stock .

Press specifications

• CMYK only; PMS or other spot colors are not available
• Maximum ink density: 270%
• Line screen: 150 lpi
• Minimum photo resolution: 300 dpi
• Minimum bitmap/rasterized text resolution: 2,000 dpi
• Dot gain: 20%

Camera-ready files

• All camera-ready ads are required to be submitted as industry standard PDF/X-1a files (see below for more information.)
• Files must be prepared in a layout program such as InDesign or QuarkXPress. Type must remain vector and the fonts embedded. PDF files created by Adobe Photoshop are not considered camera-ready.
• For ads that do not bleed, the document size of the PDF should be set to the actual ad size. On Site ad sizes are here. Files should not contain crop marks, registration marks or slugs.
• Full page or larger ads that bleed should have a minimum of 0.125 inches of bleed on all sides. Use crop marks, but keep the crop marks out of the bleed image area Files should not contain registration marks or slugs.
• Color ads should be CMYK only. Color ads with an ink density higher than 300% will be automatically converted which may result in an unexpected color shift.

PDF/Distiller settings

To set up InDesign or Distiller to make PDF/X-1a files:

Adobe InDesign: From the File menu, select Export... Specify a file name and click the save button. In the next dialog box, from the list of choices in the Adobe PDF Preset selector, choose [PDF/X-1a: 2001]. In the Advanced section, change Subset fonts when percent of characters used is less than: from 100% to 0%.

Distiller: From the list of choices in the Default Settings pulldown box, select PDF/X-1a:2001. From the Settings menu, select Edit Adobe PDF Settings... Under the Fonts tab, change Subset fonts when percent of characters used is less than: from 100% to 0%.