Mechanical Requirements - Print Advertisments
File Format We no longer accept filmwork for publication.
Adobe® PDF format – High Resolution PDF
(minimum 300dpi). Internet Transfer
Line art scanned at 1200dpi. Email files to Heather Lackey at hglackey@globalsmt.net
or, for files over 25MB, upload them to our Advertiser Drop
We also accept the following files:
Box at www.globalsmt.net/dropbox.htm
• Adobe® InDesign (PDF)
Creation of Advertisements
• Adobe® Photoshop (JPEG, EPS, TIFF)
Please contact: Design & Production
• Adobe® Illustrator (EPS)
Heather Lackey at hglackey@globalsmt.net
Files must be CMYK, images should be high
Submitting technical articles
resolution 300 dpi, with ALL fonts embedded.
To submit technical articles, please send a 60-100 word
Please ensure that ALL elements are CMYK
Abstract to editor@globalsmt.net
before preflight.
Final articles should not exceed 3,000 words, less 150
Any file supplied non-CMYK, may print with
words per image, table or graph. Author’s should also send
unexpected results, due to possible colour
6-8 Keywords and a 40-60 word biography of the principle
shifts during CMYK conversion.
author’s (max. 3)
File must NOT contain any transparent elements
Submitting news articles
and must be flattened.
To submit news items to Global SMT & Packaging, please
send your press releases to news@globalsmt.net. Images
Files must contain crop marks and show bleed.
should be sent separately as 300dpi jpg files.
Live Matter
Disclaimer
This should be at least 10mm for the trim edges.
While every effort is made to ensure that advertisements
are produced to the highest standards, Global SMT
Size Chart
& Packaging will not accept responsibility for the
it is important to ensure that your document is
reproduction of adverts that have been supplied
supplied to the correct size, failure to do so may
without a proof or not to our specification.
result in your document not been reproduced
as required. All dimensions shown are described
as (W) Width x (H) Height.
Artwork Delivery Method
For identification purposes the file name must
include the advertisers name, and issue date.
Please also send email with your name, contact
number and confirmation that ad has been
uploaded to the advertising materials dropbox.
A colour printout or Acrobat® PDF file for
proofing purposes should accompany all
artwork that isn’t submitted as PDF
Email
PDF or compressed (ZIP/SIT) file, to:
production@globalsmt.net (Max. 25 MB.)
File Upload
Upload your PDF or compressed (ZIP/SIT) file to
our advertising dropbox: http://www.globalsmt.
net/dropbox.htm (Max 1.5 GB.)
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