LASERABLE PRODUCTS

OVERALL AWARD LAYOUT

With all the publishing programs available, you may want to design the exact layout of your award.
While we can easily match the overall concept of your design, using the exact layout is not recommended.
It is actually more difficult to produce and may incur additional charges.
The look of a printed layout on white paper appears different when engraved.
Usually words engraved the same size as printed will appear much smaller when engraved.
See below on how to provide an exact font.

Most awards require the award layout and formatting to be completed in our engraving specific program.
We use some special vector line fonts but can vector line fill any true-type font.
Any provided layout on paper or application file will have to be entered in this program.

This is not a printing program and uses decimals of inches instead of points.

Artwork provided in eps or corel draw version 11 or lower can be used for laserable items only.

The Page Size must be set to the actual size of the item to be laser engraved with only one item per file.

All fonts should be converted to curves since we may not have the font you used. We will not be able to
make any text changes later.

Colors will be converted to greyscale. Solid colors of grey will be reproduced by converting to a dot pattern.

Gradients can not be reproduced.

Save in PC format

TRUE TYPE FONT INFORMATION

You can send us your special font (.ttf only) used in your logo or a font you want used in a layout. We cannot use MAC Fonts

How to give us a copy of your true type font.

To copy to a 3 1/2 disk,zip drive or cd: (Normal copy and paste methods will not work with system files.)

1. Place a disk in the drive.

2. Go to c:/windows/fonts in "windows explorer"

3. Select the font with the left mouse button, hold down and drag to the drive with your disk in it.

To e-mail: ( you CANNOT attach the file directly from the windows/fonts folder.)

Create a new or use and existing folder and make a note of the path. Open the folder.

Open a second window to C:/WINDOWS/FONTS and locate the desired font.

Use the RIGHT mouse button to select, click, hold down and drag to the other folder.

Release and select COPY HERE. ( CAUTION: IF YOU DRAG THE FONT WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON YOU MUST HOLD DOWN THE

CONTROL KEY OR YOU WILL MOVE THE FONT AND IT WILL BE REMOVED FROM YOUR FONTS FOLDER.)

Use the e-mail attach file option to select the created file and e-mail to logojohn@swbell.net