When uploading photos, logos, or finished art, here are the acceptable and recommended file types.
Markful accepts the following file types in the Online Editor:
- PDF (Portable Document Format)
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
And, the following in the file uploader fields on our forms:
- AI (Adobe Illustrator)
- EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
- PSD (Photoshop File)
- INDD (In Design File)
- PDF (Portable Document Format)
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
- PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
These are the formats we would recommend:
- For photography: high-resolution JPEGs, 300DPI at full size(preferably un-compressed)
- For Graphics or Text: print-ready, vector-based PDFs
- For a mix of graphics and photography: print-ready PDFs
Color Space
Because we print in CMYK, we recommend all provided art and images to be in this CMYK color space. Providing files in an RGB color space may create unwanted color shifts in your prints.
Design file formats
Graphics and text designs (all things that are not a photo) are best submitted as vector-based files. This will ensure your lines and text are nice and crisp. If you upload JPEGs or PNGs, there may be some fuzziness around your text.
You should also make sure that there are no cut or crop lines, all transparencies have been flattened, overprint is switched off and any fonts used are embedded, before saving your designs. For best results, we recommend using the following preset to preflight your designs: Adobe PDF/X-1a:2001.
Photo file formats
You can upload photos in the same format you import them from your digital camera (normally JPEG). We do however accept the following file formats: JPEG, PNG, and PDF.