Color Flyer Printing

Color flyer printing is a specialty at TigerPress. With small, medium and large printing presses, we have the right equipment to suit your flyer's print production needs. This ensuresyour flyer project stays on deadline and within your budget. Check out our print and pre-press tips below for getting the best results for your print project.

We often been heard saying there is no job too big or too small at TigerPress. That's especially true printing color flyers. We feature small presses for one- and two-color short print runs up to 11x17 inches.

If your printing 4-color flyers, or a longer print run for 2- to 3-colors, we feature our Komori 4-color press with a sheet size up to 20x28 inches.

Our Komori 6-color press handles sheets up to 28x40 inches and features inline aqueous coating for an exceptionally smooth glossy, matte or satin finish for printing color flyers.

Include The Fonts–This seems so obvious, but you will be amazed how often fonts are missing when print jobs are delivered to the printer.

Missing fonts will bring your flyer project to a screeching halt, possibly causing AA charges for another round of flightchecking your files.

If in doubt which fonts are needed (especially you PC users) then burn a disk with all your fonts and send that along.

A common problem transferring Mac fonts arises when PC networks or PC formatted disks delete the resource fork that contains the Macintosh font information rendering the fonts unuseable.

To compress fonts with Mac OSX for transfer via FTP, email, CD-R or DVD-R, right click (control-click) the folder and "Create Archive". Mac OS9 users should compress fonts into an SIT file using Stuffit.

Include All Artwork-Sometimes missing fonts can be substituted by your printer, but missing art cannot be corrected, unless it's a regular job that the printer has done before, and keeps common artwork on file.

Low resolution artwork isn't recommended, but if that's what you send, that's what you'll see on the final brochure. Minim DPI recommended is 200. Anything less than 200 dpi risks pixellation of the image.

Bleed Artwork-Art, color blocks and photos need to extend beyond the page size (.125 of an inch is recommended) if bleeds are part of your flyer's design. Better to leave a gap between photos and the edge than to align the photo directly on the page edge.

Create Print-Ready PDFs-PDF documents are great. We appreciate, and even prefer using them in the pre-press process, but only if they are created print ready.

Print ready means the PDF includes all fonts, all artwork is embedded and not downsampled less than 300 dpi, spot colors, if used, are retained, and the pages contain bleed. Contact us if you need assistance creating print-ready PDF files for your color flyer printing project.

Know Your Printer's Capabilities–Printing a 4-color flyer job on a 2-color press can be done, but we don't recommend it. 6-color? Forget it.

If you do leave your 4-color flyer with a shop that doesn't have a 4-color press, chances are that printer will broker your flyer out to another printer with a 4-color press, or possibly a wholesale gang run printer, which is fine, but now you will be paying a surcharge for the print broker.

Learn more about color brochure printing. Learn more about digital color printing. Learn more about annual report printing. Learn more about color catalog printing.