Carmel Magazine Advertising Specs
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An important message to advertisers: Ad material must meet explicit requirements in order for Carmel Magazine, Inc. to deliver the high quality our advertisers deserve. Please review all advertising copy policies against your ad to ensure quicker processing and avoid unnecessary processing charges. For information on having Carmel Magazine, Inc. prepare your ad, please contact your representative.
Carmel Magazine pages are printed using web press with Sunday technology with four-color process inks (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). Carmel Magazine covers are printed offset on coated stock with four-color process inks. The outside covers are UV-coated while the inside covers are not. Carmel Magazine is perfect bound and over-runs are saddle stitched.
Mechanical Specifications at a Glance:
Trim size is 8.375” x 10.875”
Safe or Live area is 7.715” x 10.215”
(Text should not appear outside this area to avoid clipping.)
FILE FORMATS FOR SUBMISSION
Versions at or below:
Quark XPress 7, InDesign CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and
Adobe Illustrator CS3 ONLY. Use Stuffit or Zip for compressing files. If submitting
a PDF, only High Press/ High Quality and PDF/X-1a PDFs will be accepted.
NOTE: For Illustrator files, please convert fonts to outlines.Although Carmel
Magazine, Inc. makes every effort to use the latest versions of design software,
we cannot guarantee that all releases and formats submitted by clients will be
compatible with current applications used by Carmel Magazine, Inc.
Carmel Magazine, Inc. does not accept ads built in Freehand, Pagemaker, Corel,
Publisher or MS Word files.
STORAGE FORMATS FOR SUBMISSION
For submitting ads electronically, please email ruben@carmelmagazine.com for
the current FTP site information.Ads submitted by FTP, must have an acceptable
color proof sent by mail to accompany the ad: (Examples of acceptable proofs:
Fuji Pictroproof, Scitex Iris, Kodak Approval, Rainbow Dye Sub, 3M Digital,
and Matchprint).
MECHANICALS
2-Page Spread — Bleed 17" x 11.125" (includes 1/8" bleed)
2-Page Spread — Non-Bleed 15.875" X 10"
Full Page — Bleed 8.625” x 11.125” (includes 1/8” bleed)
Full Page — Non-Bleed 7.5” x 10”
2/3 Page — 4.875” x 9.875”
1/2 Page Horizontal — 7.375" x 4.875"
1/3 Page Square — 4.875” x 4.875”
1/3 Page Vertical — 2.3” x 9.875”
1/4 Page — 3.6” x 4.875”
1/6 Page Vertical — 2.3” x 4.875”
1/6 Page Horizontal — 4.875” x 2.3”