The Frog Blog

Are you fed up with the colours of your finished print looking different to how it looks on screen when you design it? Do you know the difference between CMYK and RGB?TRY THIS!Download and print this PDF on your colour printerand compare the printed colours on paper to the colours you see on your screen.Notice how the RGB (Red, Green & Blue) colours in the top row are luminous and vibrant on screen but less vibrant when printed.This is because standard screens and monitors produce colours in RGB …

So, I thought I'd write a bit today about supplying your artwork to us in Word for printing your leaflets, flyers, posters, postcards, whatever! If you are creating your artwork in Microsoft Word please, please PLEASE, save your document as a PDF.  As all our design and repro team use Apple Macs and .doc and .docx files are of little use to them.  This applies to Office 2007 and Office2010.  For Office 2003 (and I think 2000), follow the instructions a bit further down thi …

When producing a document which is to be trimmed with a colour, text or graphic right up to the final edge it is important to add 'bleed' to the outer edges.  We normally work to a 3mm bleed around each edge, as shown below.. As you can see the graphic is overrunning the page 3mm from the edge. The reasons for this are to do with small movements of the paper, mainly from the final cutting on the guillotine after it has already been printed, and ensures that your final print is exa …