Step 1)
Open your InDesign or Illustrator file 

Step 2)
Make sure your Document contains no errors, such as missing or modified links

Step 3)
Set up your document with 5 mm bleeds, and make sure you cover your bleed area with your background colour or image. Please do not add any relevant information, such as text or logos, to this bleed section, as it’ll be cropped off after being printed.

Step 4)
Go to ‘File’ > ‘Export’ on the top menu bar. Export your PDF as a ‘[High Quality Print]’, as individual pages*, with Crop Marks & 5 mm Bleeds.

*Most files should be exported as individual pages, and not as spreads, apart from a few exceptions (e.g. tri-fold leaflets), as it makes the whole printing process much simpler and trouble-free, even if the final product is a double-sided brochure composed of spreads of two pages.

Step 5)
Send us your print-ready file to city@abcimaginguk.com or quotes@abcimaginguk.com, via normal mail or via WeTransfer link (if the file is larger than 25MB).

If you are wondering why Photoshop is not included in this tutorial, the reason is, unlike InDesign and Illustrator which work with vector graphics, Photoshop is raster-based and uses pixels to create images, and therefore it is not suited to create print-ready PDF files.

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Step 1)
Create a New Document in InDesign; with ‘Facing Pages’ and a number of pages that is a multiple of 4, and set up your document with 5 mm bleeds.

Step 2)
Design your document, making sure you cover your bleed area with your background colour or image. Please do not add any relevant information, such as text or logos, to this bleed section, as it’ll be cropped off after being printed.

Step 3)
Go to ‘File’ > ‘Export’ on the top menu bar. Export your PDF as a ‘[High Quality Print]’, as individual pages*, with Crop Marks & 5 mm Bleeds.

*Most files should be exported as individual pages, and not as spreads, apart from a few exceptions (e.g. tri-fold leaflets), as it makes the whole printing process much simpler and trouble-free, even if the final product is a double-sided brochure composed of spreads of two pages.

Step 4)
Send us your print-ready file to city@abcimaginguk.com or quotes@abcimaginguk.com, via normal mail or via WeTransfer link (if the file is larger than 25MB).

‍Give us a call on: 020 7253 4311‍
city@abcimaginguk.com

Step 1)
Open Adobe Acrobat.

Step 2)
Go to ‘Tools’, at the top of the screen and then ‘Combine Files’.

Step 3)
Select ‘Add Files’, which will open a window to your desktop. Find and select all the files that you wish to merge into one single PDF file.

Step 4)
Once they’re imported in, click on the blue button that reads ‘Combine’, on the top right side.

Step 5)
If you’re happy with the order of the pages you can export it to PDF (please see Step 6).

If you wish to tweak the page order, go to ‘Tools’ and select ‘Organise Pages’, drag the pages around accordingly until you're happy with their organisation. This setting also allows you to delete, duplicate or rotate each page if needed.

Step 6)
Finally, export your PDF by going to the top menu bar and selecting ‘File’ > ‘Save As’;In the new window that'll pop up, choose the folder that you want to save your files to, and rename your file.

Although Acrobat, in terms of software, is not as good as InDesign or Illustrator to edit content, you can make small tweaks to your document’s text (in case you have any typos) or even move some images or text boxes around. In order to do this, simply go back to ‘Tools’ and select ‘Edit PDF’. Once you’re happy with the changes, click on the grey button that reads ‘Close’, and save your document as mentioned above, in step 6

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Step 1)
Open the File in InDesign or Illustrator.

Step 2)
Make sure that all the Text in your document is Unlocked.

Step 3)
Select all of your Text elements.

Step 4)
Go to the top menu bar, and select ‘Type’> ‘Create Outlines’

Step 5)
Export your PDF as a ‘[High Quality Print]’, as individual pages, with crop marks & 5 mm bleed.

Step 6)
Send us your print-ready file to city@abcimaginguk.com or quotes@abcimaginguk.com, via normal mail or via WeTransfer link (if the file is larger than 25MB).

‍Give us a call on: 020 7253 4311‍
city@abcimaginguk.com

Step 1)
Open one of our Roller Banner templates or create a new Document in InDesign or Illustrator. Remember to set your document up with 5 mm bleed.

Roller Banners usually have the following measurements:

‍Width:
‍800, 850 or 1000 mm
‍
‍Height:
‍This needs to be 2100 mm.
‍
*Please note that your visible area will only be 2000 mm; however, you must add an extra 100 mm section, at the bottom, which will be placed inside the Roller Banner mechanism.

Step 2)
Design your document, making sure you cover your bleed area and the extra 100 mm section, at the bottom, with your background colour or image. 

Please do not add any relevant information, such as text or logos, to any of these sections, as the bleed area will be cropped off after being printed, and the 100 mm section will be hidden inside the mechanism.

Step 3)
Go to ‘File’ > ‘Export’ on the top menu bar.Export your PDF as a ‘[High Quality Print]’, as individual pages, with Crop Marks&5 mm Bleeds.

Step 4)
Send us your print-ready file to city@abcimaginguk.com or quotes@abcimaginguk.com, via normal mail or via WeTransfer link (if the file is larger than 25MB). 

‍Give us a call on: 020 7253 4311‍
city@abcimaginguk.com

Step 1)
Create a new Document in InDesign or Illustrator. When the ‘New Document’ window pops up, edit your page size to the desired measurements.

Business cards are usually 85 mm (W) and 55 mm (H), but these sizes can vary in accordance to your personal preference.

Set your document up with at least 5 mm margins and 5 mm bleed.

‍Step 2)
Make sure you cover your bleed area with your background colour or image, if you have any.

Please do not add any relevant information, such as text or logos, to this bleed section, as it’ll be cropped off after being printed. 

Step 3)
Go to ‘File’ > ‘Export’ on the top menu bar. Export your PDF as a ‘[High Quality Print]’, as individual pages, with Crop Marks&5 mm Bleeds.

Step 4)
Send us your print-ready file to city@abcimaginguk.com or quotes@abcimaginguk.com, via normal mail or via WeTransfer link (if the file is larger than 25MB).

‍Give us a call on: 020 7253 4311‍
city@abcimaginguk.com

Step 1)
Open your Illustrator file.

Step 2)
Open your “Layers” panel, by going to “Window”, at the top menu bar, and then selecting “Layers.”.Create two layers in your “Layers” panel by clicking on the little square icon with a plus sign in the middle (at the bottom of the “Layers” panel).

The bottom layer will contain your artwork, as you’ve originally designed it.

Then, you’ll create a new layer on top of that, which will have a vector outline of your artwork. This shape will become your “White Ink” layer (please see step 4).
Step 3)
Lock your artwork layer, so you don’t accidentally change it.

Step 4)
As mentioned, this top layer will have a vector shape that corresponds to the outline of your artwork. This shape needs to be set up with a swatch / colour with the following details:

Swatch name: Spot1 (with this exact spelling: capital S, and no space between the word “Spot” and the number “1”).

Colour type: Spot Colour

‍Colour Mode: CMYK

‍All the CMYK levels should be 0% apart from one, which should be 100%; (e.g. C0; M0; Y100; K0).
Step 5)
Go to “Window”, at the top menu bar, and select “Attributes”. Tick the box that reads “Overprint Fill”.

The final result should be a solid colour shape sitting on top of your design; this shape is your “White Ink” layer, that our printer will pick up on and back your artwork with white ink as a result.

On the file preview, your design won’t be visible because it’ll be hidden behind this “White Ink” layer, however, we can confirm that your artwork will be fully visible when printed.

If you wish to tweak the page order, go to ‘Tools’ and select ‘Organise Pages’, drag the pages around accordingly until you're happy with their organisation. This setting also allows you to delete, duplicate or rotate each page if needed.

Step 6) Optional
If you wish for your design to be visible through this “white ink” layer, on the file preview, all you need to do is go to the top, click on the word “Opacity”, and from the drop-down menu (which usually has “Normal” as the default option), select “Multiply”.

This option will make your “White Ink” layer transparent / see-through, so the design can be visible underneath it on the file preview.

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city@abcimaginguk.com

A PDF converter is built into the most recent versions of Word, such as Word 2013 and the newer versions released after that, including the one that comes with Office 365.

Step 1)
Open Word 

Step 2)
Go to “Browse” and select the desired PDF file from your folders.

Step 3)
Once you’ve selected the PDF, click on “Open”.A warning message will pop up saying that Word is going to do ‘its best’ to open the PDF document, and warns you that things might not look exactly like the original, especially if the original file contains lots of graphics. It will also tell you that it will take a while to perform this conversion.

Step 4) Click 'OK'
Once the conversion is done, Word will open your PDF file as an editable document.

Step 5)
Some layout changes might have occurred, therefore you will have to adjust them in Word with the tools at hand.

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city@abcimaginguk.com

Step 1)
Open your InDesign / Illustrator / Photoshop file. 

Step 2)
Make sure your Document contains no errors, such as Missing or Modified Links.

Step 3)
Go to “File” and then “Package…”, on your top menu bar. If your document hasn’t been saved yet, InDesign will ask you to save it. Click on the button that reads “Save”.

Step 4)
On the popup window, click on ‘Package’, on the bottom right. 

Step 5)
A new popup window will appear. Select the folder on your Desktop in which you want to save your package to.

Step 6)
Make sure you tick all boxes at the bottom of the popup window, so the ABC Studio has access to all the Fonts and Linked Graphics used in your document.

Step 7)
When you’re ready, click on the button that reads “Package”, at the bottom right.

Step 8)
Compress / zip your Packaged Folder up, and send it to ABC.

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