To make the process as easy as possible for our valued clients, Postcard Portables can handle the graphic design for any sign product. Our professional graphics department can utilize your logos, images, and color palette to come up with eye-catching and effective creative, or they can adapt artwork created by your design team and reformat it as needed.
If utilizing our design team, please send us the highest resolution images and logos possible, or send us vector files if you have them. In most cases, we suggest that images more than 1 MB in size should be used if you are sending non-vector files. The reason we prefer this is that we always want your sign to look outstanding, and don’t want the image to be pixilated or ‘fuzzy’ when printed. Any images that are low quality will likely portray a very unsatisfactory image on the actual sign, which will not be ideal. Our ultimate goal is always to have 100% customer satisfaction.
Acceptable images formats are: .jpg, .png, .gif, .tif
As for logos, vector files are preferred, such as .ai, .eps, .pdf
You can always share general ideas of your preferred layout with our designers by simply drawing on a sheet of paper or using one of the mini-billboard templates, which you can download here:
Sign Template 5×1
Proof Template 5×10
Sign Template 5×8
Proof Template 4×8
Proof Template 4×4
If you already have a finalized design that you would like to use for one of our products, please supply editable source files so that our design team can ensure proper formatting for our templates. In this case, some changes may be needed so it’s important that the files are editable. You can send us artwork in any of the following formats: .psd, .ai or .eps (with fonts and images included), .pdf (with enabled editing capabilities), or .indd
You can also send us print-ready files for the standard mini-billboards only (5×10, 4×8, 4×4) if your design team created them strictly according to our templates and you are sure that you won’t need any changes to them. The templates can be downloaded here:
Sign Template 5×1
Sign Template 5×10
Sign Template 5×8
Sign Template 4×8
Sign Template 4×4
The top locked layers show the rounded corners as well as a “safety keyline” at 3 inches from the edges so that there is no risk of copy / logos falling off the edge of the board. No bleeds are required.
Print-ready files for standard mini-billboard designs should be saved as as a .tif file, at resolution 50 dpi, with all layers merged, using LZW compression. The top locked layers should be switched off when saving a .tif file. It’s vital that blacks be specified as “rich blacks” (CMYK mix of 50/50/50/100) and that the file is saved without any color profiles attached to it (SWOP / ISO Coated / etc.)
Please contact your franchise representative to obtain their private upload folder instructions. Alternatively, you may also use sites such as WeTransfer.com to share your files.
Thank you for doing business with Postcard Portables.
