Resources

Full Size Booklet
Program Page Size 8.5” x 11”

Ad sizes available
Business Card [ landscape or portrait ]
3.5”w x 2”h
1/4 Page [ portrait only ]
3.875”w x 5.125”h
1/2 Page [ landscape only ]
8”w x 5.125”h
Full Page [ portrait only ]
8”w x 10.5”h

1/2 Size Booklet
Program Page Size 8.5” x 5.5”
 
Ad sizes available
Business Card [ landscape or portrait ]
3.5”w x 2”h
1/2 Page [ landscape only ]
3.5”w x 7.75”h
Full Page [ portrait only ]
5”w x 7.75”h

 

Sports Poster Advertising 
Ad sizes available
Business Card [ landscape or portrait ]
3.5”w x 2”h
Double Business Card [ portrait ]
3.5”w x 4”h
Quad Business Card [ landscape ]
7”w x 4”h 

 

 

File Formats

PDF IS THE PREFERRED FILE FORMAT. We also accept JPG, PSD, and TIF files. When exporting a PDF from InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator, please choose the Press Quality preset. Please FLATTEN all layers in Photoshop or Illustrator before making a PDF.
 
A hard copy original can be scanned in to be used for your ad if you don’t have digital ready art. We can’t guarantee the quality of your ad if we have to scan it into the program.
 

Resolution

IMAGE RESOLUTION SHOULD ALWAYS BE 300 DPI OR BETTER. Any artwork supplied lower than 300dpi or smaller than the ad space may print blurry, pixelated or degrade the quality.
 

Color

All elements in your ad design MUST be set to the appropriate color space: grayscale or CMYK. RGB photos and Pantone swatches will be automatically converted to CMYK. This process can produce unintended colors. Finished color ads that have to be converted to run in grayscale will often print very dark. FOR BEST RESULTS PLEASE TREAT YOUR OWN ARTWORK IN THE COLOR SPACE YOU INTEND IT TO RUN.

 

Size and Cropping

No crop marks, bleeds, or margins are necessary in preparing your ad. Please crop your own ads to the final correct size before submitting.  

DELIVERY METHODS

EMAIL
If your ad is less than 10 MB, it can be emailed to printshop@grantspass.k12.or.us.
PLEASE CC YOUR ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE. PLEASE INCLUDE: the name of the ADVERTISER, the SIZE of the ad, a CONTACT name, and the PHONE NUMBER of the sender and publication you are advertising in.
 
OTHER DEVICE
If your ad is MORE than 10 MB, it can be submitted on a thumb drive or CD.
PLEASE give this to your ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE.
 
HARDCOPY ORIGINAL
PLEASE give this to your ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE.
 
The Printshop and Graphics department supports the Grants Pass School District Staff, Athletic Teams and Extracurricular Clubs. We strive for producing high quality products. However, if the above guidelines are not met, we can not be held responsible for wrong dimensions, color variances, resolution quality or scanned items.

The Printshop will not be able to create new or adjust ads for advertisers.

The Print Shop prefers PDF documents. PDF files are easier to handle and will likely speed up your turn-around time. Below are instructions on how to convert your file to a PDF:

Microsoft Word

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button, choose Save As > PDF.
2. Specify a name and location for the file.
3. Next to Optimize for, click Standard (publishing online and printing).
4. Click Publish.

Microsoft PowerPoint

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button, choose Save As > PDF or XPS.
2. Specify a name and location for the file.
3. In the Save as type list, click PDF.
4. Next to Optimize for, click Standard (publishing online and printing).
5. Click Publish.

Microsoft Publisher

1. On the File menu, point to Pack and Go, and click Take to a Commercial Printing Service.
2. In the pane at left, in the How will this publication be printed? list, click Commercial Press.
3. Click Printing Options.
4. In the Print Options dialog box, select the options that you need. Click OK.
5. Under Select an item to fix, repair any problems that Publisher has identified.
6. Under Export, select the Create a PDF check box.
7. Click Save.
8. In the Pack and Go Wizard, select the location to which you want to export the file, and click Next.

Microsoft Excel

1. Choose File> Save As > PDF or XPS
2. Specify a name and location for the file.
3. Next to Optimize for, click Standard (publishing online and printing).
4. Click Publish.

Adobe InDesign

1. Choose File > Export.
2. Specify a name and location for the file.
3. For Save As Adobe PDF Preset, choose [Press Quality]
4. Click on Marks and Bleeds, add check mark to Crop Marks box and offset to 0.125”
5. Change Bleed to 0.125” for Top, Bottom, Left and Right
6. Select Export.

Adobe Illustrator

1. Choose File > Save As.
2. Specify a name and location for the file.
3. For Save As Adobe PDF Preset, choose [Press Quality]
4. Click on Marks and Bleeds, add check mark to Crop Marks box and offset to 0.125”
5. Change Bleed to 0.125” for Top, Bottom, Left and Right
6. Select Export.

Adobe Photoshop

1. Choose File > Save As.
2. Specify a name and location for the file.
3. For Format, choose Photoshop PDF
4. For Save As Adobe PDF Preset, choose [Press Quality]
5. Click on Marks and Bleeds, add check mark to Crop Marks box and offset to 0.125”
6. Change Bleed to 

The Print Shop prefers PDF documents. PDF files are easier to handle and will likely speed up your turn-around time. Remember to add crop marks before sending.

We also accept jpeg, psd, tiff, ti, eps, indd and ai file types. Files formatted in Microsoft Word, Publisher, and Powerpoint are not typically suitable for print and may require additional pre-press time and fees may apply. When creating in these programs, please export to a PDF before submitting for print. Below are some commonly used file extensions and their definitions:

ai (Adobe Illustrator)

Drawing created with Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics editing program; composed of paths connected by points, rather than bitmap image data; commonly used for logos and print media. Since Illustrator image files are saved in a vector format, they can be enlarged without losing any image quality. Some third-party programs can open AI files, but they may rasterize the image, meaning the vector data will be converted to a bitmap format.

eps (Encapsulated PostScript)

EPS is a format that wraps all artwork (vector and bitmapped) in PostScript code. EPS is the standard format for the graphics industry because of it’s scalability and excellent print quality. When you place an EPS file in an application, it’s protected from any major changes to its structure: You’re able to scale the artwork, but you cannot down-size the resolution, change the type or colors in the art, or crop correctly.
 

gif (Graphics Interchange Format)

Gifs are common format for Web graphics, especially small images and images that contain text, such as navigation buttons. Gif files lack the color range to be used for high-quality photos.
 

 jpeg or jpg (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

Jpegs support up to 24-bit color, which makes them a good format for storing digital photos. Jpegs are the best format for compressing photographic images.

indd (Adobe InDesign)

Professional page layout project created with Adobe InDesign; includes page formatting information, page content, linked files, styles, and swatches; used for creating and formatting books, magazines, newspapers, flyers, brochures, etc.

pdf (Portable Document Format)

A PDF is useful for saving artwork featuring precise layout and a significant amount of formatted text. PDF’s preserve fonts and formatting electronically across multiple platforms and appear the same on the screen as they will when printed on paper. PDF documents will save layers in your artwork, making it easy for you to return to applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to edit your artwork.

psd (Photoshop Document)

Adobe Photoshop’s native file format. You must have Adobe Photoshop to open this type of document. Psd’s may include image layers, adjustment layers, layer masks, annotation notes, file information, keywords, and other Photoshop-specific elements. Photoshop documents support RGB, CMYK, grayscale, monochrome, duotone, indexed color, Lab color, and multichannel color modes.

tiff or tif (Tag Image File Format)

Tiff is an industry standard designed for the handling of raster or bitmapped images. It can save black-and-white, grayscale, index color (256 color), RGB, LAB, and CMYK images. Just about any application that can read bitmapped art will open TIFF files. The attractive aspect of TIFF files is that once placed in a program, you can edit, scale, and manipulate all aspects of the artwork.

zip (WinZip)

“Zipping” files compresses them allowing for smaller file sizes for sending, also known as “zipped.” A special kind of zipped file is self-extracting and ends with a “.exe” extension. Windows users can create ZIP archives by right-clicking a file and selecting “Send to > Compressed (zipped) Folder.” Mac OS X users can create ZIP archives by right-clicking a file and selecting “Compress [filename].”

We advise you to send 300 dpi files. This resolution will ensure that your design is sharp instead of blurry. High resolution means more image detail. 

Digital images are those images that come from a digital camera or a scanner. They are made up of tiny dots known as pixels. If the resolution used to make a print of the image is too low we will “see the dots,” just as you sometimes do in a photograph reproduced on low quality newsprint.

The box to the right shows the Image Size dialog box in Adobe Photoshop, the premier photo editing software. This information at the top of the box tells us that the photo was taken at 1936 pixels wide by 2592 pixels high. The size of the image is 14.4 Megabytes.

The section of the box below shows that the current setting is for an image that is 6.453 inches wide by 8.64 inches high and that the resolution is 300 pixels per inch.

Images downloaded from the Internet do not typically print clearly because their dpi is usually 72 dpi instead of the standard 300 dpi. Always use images with a dpi of at least 300.

Go to www.ilovepdf.com for the free webpage to work with your PDF files.

This program will allow you to Unlock secured PDFs, Extract pages, convert to word, merge PDF files and so much more.

Elementary teachers that are using TEACHER PAY TEACHER or JOURNEYS PDFs, this will really make working with your files much easier and you can submit the pages you want instead of huge files.

 Enjoy and have fun using it.  If you have questions, give us call.

Synthetic paper products are built to last, yet are flexible with properties similar to those of regular paper. The paper may be more expensive but outweighs the cost of the time spent laminating and trimming.

It’s perfect for situations where moisture or wear are of concern. Some uses for Synthetic paper are; maps, posters or signs.

Highlights:

• heavy weight
• durable
• tear proof
• moisture proof
• unparalleled lamination strength and eliminates the need for laminating
• will not peel
• ability to write on it. (Dry erase markers will not work with this. Can't be wiped off)
• great for punching
• can be cut

Synthetic paper is more expensive than a regular cardstock so we ask that you please use it cautiously.