Design / Pre-Press Production

Azure’s innovative and creative design team can make the task of putting what sometimes appears to be a jigsaw into a highly creative design and communication solution.

A complete bespoke design can be created or a client’s existing idea can be taken and further developed into something more creative and imaginative. Alternatively a customer’s own art work may be used after verifying it is press ready.

Investment in the latest technology and up to date industry software allow the skilled design/pre-press production staff to produce artwork that ensures accurate reproduction of colours, images and fonts.

To maximise the printed quality of a design Azure’s computer to plate technology ensures superb accuracy of image and colour definition time after time.

Customer artwork submission notes

Computer to plate output and small volume printing from many of the leading design based software packages is generally not a problem. We can accomodate files from the following software packages:

Adobe Indesign CS3 (or earlier)
Adobe Illustrator CS3 (or earlier)
Adobe Pagemaker 7 (or earlier)
Adobe Photoshop CS3 (or earlier)
Quarkxpress 7 (or earlier)
Macromedia Freehand MX (or earlier)
Corel Draw 12 (or earlier)
PDF format (Press ready or PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) or please seek advice as to how to prepare pdf's)
Microsoft Publisher 2003 (or earlier)
Microsft Word 2003 (or earlier)
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003 (or earlier)