[Boss Hog]

The customer won't need the business card at 72dpi, you should supply them with the vector source file if you want them to be able to edit your design at a later date themselves, or, by using another designer, and a high res PDF version that is print ready.

The logo is the only item that is really needed in different formats, for website display, for print etc etc.

Originally Posted by Pixels Ink

In CS3 you need to chose the Export option to get jpeg mate, CS4 is probably the same.. You'll also find the TIFF option in there as well.

Yep this is also the case in CS4.

[Xenonsoft]

Cheers for the help lads, it's helpful (surprising eh?)

@ Pixels, cheers for the export help all done on that front now. Is it worth offering a TIFF file, and what use would it serve?

@ Damon - So I'll give him these for the business card designs:

• 300dpi JPEG
• .ai Illustrator file
• .pdf Acrobat file

And these for the logo file:

• .ai illustrator file
• .eps
• .jpeg 300dpi
• .jpeg 72dpi
• .pdf Acrobat file

Sound about right? Getting there gradually

[Boss Hog]

Don't really think the 300dpi JPEG of the business card is neccessary.

With regards to the logo, Amanda had it right earlier in the thread, and she knows her stuff

Vector PDF
Vector EPS
300dpi JPEG
Three different sizes of 72dpi JPEG

Obviously, a good note to the customer would be if you ever need anything different then do not hesitate to get in touch.

[Xenonsoft]

Cheers Boss, I'll do that, although not sure about the 3 sizes of JPEG. I would have thought them not to be amazingly useful, PNG's more so due to the transparency.

[Pixels Ink]

Jpeg/Gif is still more widely acceptable than PNG.

Why not include a PNG and Some JPG sizes :)

[Xenonsoft]

May well do Pixels cheers!

I'm gonna send that off tomorrow, got a meeting with a man from Yell first.

[Xenonsoft]

Should I remove the border from the designs I send the client so that it doesn't print it with the black edges?

[Boss Hog]

What black edges?

[Xenonsoft]

Sorry Damon.

These:

[pcbranding]

Hi,

The files you send them of the card artwork should be without black edges (unless they are part of the design). The files should show trim marks and should have 3mm bleed (though by the look of it, there is nothing that bleeds off the edge.)

The reason you should only really be sending vector/eps/pdf versions of the file is that the printer can then remove the trim marks by deleting the relevent colour ink plate, leaving the grey and blue Pantone colours. Bitmap/JPEG files don't contain this specific colour info.

If your client decides to have them printed in four colour (CMYK) then the JPEG will suffice, but the printer can convert the Pantone ref into CMYK, but you will notice a shift in the colour unless you've been clever and issued the JPEG with a matched version of the blue pantone ;)