Artwork & Design

MG Signs offer a Design – Artwork - Layout service.

Understanding great design is essential to creating a positive first impression.

The design process is often a juggling act and is one of our valued professional practices.

We can help with this process, with years of successful signage manufacturing, developing effective visual solutions MG Signs can point you in the right direction.

Our art department utilises current versions of prepress and design software, enabling us to use most graphics files sent to us.

Artwork Guidelines

Naming Files

Please use word names as opposed to code numbers etc. all discs and their cases/sleeves should be clearly marked with the file names, company and contact details.

Naming Files

Please use word names as opposed to code numbers etc. all discs and their cases/sleeves should be clearly marked with the file names, company and contact details.

Naming Files

Please use word names as opposed to code numbers etc. all discs and their cases/sleeves should be clearly marked with the file names, company and contact details.

Fonts

All fonts must be supplied or converted to curves/ paths.

Please use native font variations as opposed to applying font style attributes from style menus, for example use the font “century schoolbook italic” rather than using “century schoolbook” and selecting “italic” from a pull down menu.

Hardcopies

It is necessary that you provide a scaled hardcopy with your job to ensure accurate reproduction. This enables our art department to detect any file corruption etc.

Please include notes on PMS colours etc if applicable.

ICC Profiles

Please do not embed colour profiles in your artwork files, your graphics programme should have any colour management options turned off before you save your files.

Please ensure your artwork has CMYK attributes.

Proofs

We offer a proof of each job to ensure quality, asking MG Signs to proceed without approval of a proof waives our responsibility for costs of any rework.

Supported file types
  • CDR, EPS, AI, Tiff, PDF - PC files only as we cannot support Apple Mac Files
  • Corel Draw X3 - MG Signs predominately uses Corel draw x3
  • Illustrator CS2 - Please link (not embed all artwork)
  • Jpeg - Not a recommended option please supply artwork at a high resolution only.

It is recommended that your artwork be saved at a percentage of the final size (50%, 25%, 10%), when doing this. Please indicate the final out put size.

We accept files on Cd’s or Email