After making your order
please to contact us with the design of your printed hockey puck. Email
us the artwork, description, and any special requests you may have. We
will reply back to you in 24-48 hours with the proof that will be
printed on your pucks.
Make sure that you have the
correct number of colors and the correct quantity. In case of doubt
about the number of colors, contact us first and place your order after
we have confirmed the correct number of colors.
Our program of choice is
Illustrator EPS (Adobe Illustrator) ".ai" files. We use PC's and the
software programs CorelDraw 12, Adobe Photoshop CS, and Adobe
Illustrator 10 as our primary graphics software. We accept most artwork
files that can be imported in any of these programs.
When you are sending art to
be used for printing, we prefer vector art files.
These are files that have been created in programs like CorelDraw,
Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand. Bitmap files, e.g.:
Photoshop .psd or .tiff files saved at 300 dpi or greater should also
produce an acceptable result.
If you are an Adobe
Illustrator user, please save your files as Illustrator EPS files. Also
convert all text to OUTLINES. This can be done simply by selecting the
text and choosing the "Create Outlines" selection under the "Type"
menu. It is very important that you do this, as we may not have your
fonts on any of our computers.
We also can use files
created in Adobe Photoshop in their native .psd format. Try to keep
file sizes under 5 Mg. You can compress your files using a compression
program like WinZip or Stuff-It and we'll unzip them on our end.
Here are the types of files that we can accept: (We use PC's, not
Mac's.) Ideal
files include:
CorelDraw .cdr
Adobe Illustrator EPS or .ai
Windows Metafile .wmf
Photoshop EPS or .psd
Adobe .pdf
Tiff files
Less
than Ideal Files (May incur an art change):
JPG
BMP
GIF
Explanation
of Colors and Screens
To be more accurate, a
'Color' is really a screen. For example, if white is found on both
sides of the puck, that's two different screens and considered two
colors. We tend to use the terminology number of colors instead of
number of screens because most customers can better relate to how many
colors their job has then how many screens it requires.
2 sided: When quoting 2
sided jobs all you need to do is add total number of colors used (even
if you use the same color on both sides it counts as 2 colors). If the
logo is 3 colors and they want it on both sides, it's a 6 color total.
Refer to the 6 color total on the chart for pricing.
When ordering a two sided puck, we will do our best to perfectly align both sides but cannot guarantee this.
Please
also see ourCustom Hockey Pucks Information page for
more information on submitting your custom hockey puck artwork and
other useful information.
We
ship all custom hockey pucks UPS ground. Emailus
for a quote.
Standard Lead Time is
three weeks. For an additional fee, orders can be expedited to within a
week from order date. We do offer overnight shipping, but please
remember that a case of hockey pucks weighs about forty pounds - so
overnight shipping is not recommended. Please Email
us if you would like to use your UPS account number and we can offer a
reduced price for expedited shipping.