ART DEPARTMENT
Contact: artworks@astor.com.au

Our Art Department is equipped to handle all your pre-press needs for hot stamping and pad printing.
We handle everything from design work to finished plate.
Some of the items include:

Pad Printing
Steel plates
Plastic plates (processed and unprocessed)
Film
PMS ink matching
Design and type setting
Hot Stamping
Magnesium dies
Brass dies
Silicone rubber dies
OP4 Brass type holders
OP4 Brass type 2mm, 3mm and 4.5mm
Specialty type apon request
Pad printing and Hot stamping Artwork Specifications
Getting your artwork correct is a key factor to ensure your project can be manufactured within your timeframe.
If you need help getting your artwork correct our art department provides this service at an additional fee.

All artwork must be supplied as a 300dpi vector file PDF or Illustrator 10 with all fonts converted to curves/ outlines. Colours must be saved as spot colour or CMYK (not RGB).

CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black
RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue, These are the colours that make up the images on computer monitors and television screen. They cannot be printed
A Vector file is an image drawn in illustrator
Outlines/Curves is when a font is converted into a graphic