PHYSICAL MEDIA ACCEPTED:
DATA FILES:
- 9 TRACK TAPE, 1600 BPI or 6250 BPI
- IBM CARTRIDGES 3480, 3490
- CD-ROM
- IOMEGA ZIP DISKS (PC) 100/250M
- OTHER MEDIA ACCEPTED ON CASE BY CASE BASIS, CONTACT YOUR ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE
GRAPHICS / LAYOUT FILES:
- CD-ROM (preferred)
- IOMEGA ZIP DISKS (PC) 100/250M (MAC) 100M
- 3.5" DISKETTES MAC OR PC
- SYQUEST DISKS
- EMAIL FILES WITH PO# AS STUFF-IT (SIT) ARCHIVE TO prepress@nwmail.com
ELECTRONIC DATA TRANSFERS ACCEPTED:
- EMAILFILES (TO YOUR ACCOUNT REP @nwmail.com)
- FTP FILE TRANSFERS TO US AT ftp://bertha.nwmail.com CONTACT YOUR ACCOUNT REP FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND PASSWORD.
- FTP FILE TRANSFERS FROM YOUR SITE, PROVIDE US SITE ADDRESS, USER NAME AND PASSWORD
- SQL DATABASE QUERY (ORACLE, mySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL) PROVIDE US HOST ADDRESS, DATABASE/TABLE NAME, USERNAME, PASSWORD, ALLOW fw.nwmail.com
- DIRECT MODEM TRANSFERS (SECURE) CONTACT YOUR ACCOUNT REP FOR PHONE NUMBER
DATABASE FILE FORMAT REQUIREMENTS:
MAGNETIC TAPE FORMATS:
- FIXED LENGTH FIELDS/FIXED LENGTH RECORDS
- ASCII OR EBCDIC
- NO PACKED OR SIGNED FIELDS, NO CONTROL CHARACTERS IN FILLER FIELDS
- STANDARD IBM LABELS OK, NOT REQUIRED
- MUST PROVIDE FILE FORMAT/RECORD LAYOUT SHEET DESCRIBING FIELDS WITH STARTING AND ENDING POSITIONS IN RECORD
- PROVIDE DUMP OF FIRST 50 RECORDS OF FILE
DISKETTE, PC, AND ELECTRONIC FILE TRANSFER FORMATS:
- DBASE (.DBF) FILES PREFERRED
- SDF OR FIXED LENGTH FILES ACCEPTED WITH FILE FORMAT/RECORD LAYOUT SHEET DESCRIBING FIELDS WITH STARTING AND ENDING POSITIONS IN RECORD
- ASCII TAB DELIMITED FILES ACCEPTED WITH FILE LAYOUT INDICATING MAXIMUM FIELD LENGTHS, FIRST RECORD SHOULD INCLUDE FIELD NAMES
- EXCEL SPREADSHEET FILES
- MS ACCESS DATABASE FILES
- OTHER FORMATS ACCEPTED CASE-BY-CASE
- PROGRAMMING CHARGES MAY APPLY
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MONOCHROME GRAPHIC FILE FORMAT
REQUIREMENTS:
FOR LASER AND INKJET APPLICATIONS:
- QUARK FILES (preferred) PAGEMAKER, INDESIGN AND ILLUSTRATOR FILES WITH ALL FONTS AND IMAGES COLLECTED
- ACROBAT PDF/PDFx FILES OPTIMIZED FOR PRESS
- POSTSCRIPT2 AND EPS FILES FOR GRAPHICS WITH ALL FONTS EMBEDDED
GRAPHIC LIBRARIES:
- SCITEX(INKJET): BITMAPPED PCX FILES AT 240 DPI RESOLUTION
- SHEETFED LASER: BITMAPPED OR GRAYSCALE TIFF FILES AT 600 DPI
- CONTINUOUS LASER: BITMAPPED PCX FILES AT 300 DPI
COLOR GRAPHIC FILE FORMAT REQUIREMENTS:
same as monochrome plus:
LAYOUT:
- INCLUDE LASER PROOFS FOR COLOR SEPARATION
MOCKS-UPS:
- BLEEDS SHOULD EXTEND .125"
HIGH RES GRAPHICS:
- CONVERT ALL COLORS TO CMYK FOR DIGITAL
- USE SPOT COLORS FOR OFFSET
TYPE 1 FONTS:
- MUST INCLUDE ALL SCREEN AND PRINTER FONTS
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