The Spectator Magazine Production Details

Wednesday, 26th September 2007

MECHANICAL DATA

Electronic submission of advertising material is required - PDF format only.

Software

Adobe Acrobat PDF

Electronic Movable Medium

• CD-Rom

Electronic Transfer

Email:    production@spectator.co.uk
or
FTP:    ftp://ftp.spectator.co.uk
Username:    spectator56
Password:    spectator56

When sending documents via e-mail you may need to compress the files using either Zip / Stuffit applications to protect file integrity. If either format is used please rename to .txt before sending and include a note in your email.

Copy Requirements

• High Resolution PDFs only. All images/graphics embedded as either EPS or TIF composite CMYK with all fonts embedded.

• All materials supplied must be composite CMYK (no Pantones or RGB files accepted).

• All embedded images must be a minimum of 300dpi

• In all instances, a good quality colour-match is desirable for us to pass on to our printers for accurate colour-matching.

• Please ensure all fonts are embedded and subsetted.

Dimensions / Depth x Width

DPS
Type    250 x 400mm
Trim    276 x 420mm
Bleed    282 x 426mm

Full Page
Type    250 x 185mm
Trim    276 x 210mm
Bleed    282 x 216mm

Half DPS
125 x 395mm

Half Page Horizontal
125 x 185mm

Double Column
250 x 122mm

Half Double Column
125 x 122mm

Single Column
250 x 59mm

Half Single Column
125 x 59mm

Copy Deadline

All advertisement copy to be supplied eight days prior to issue date with a colour/mono proof.

Contact

Please send disks, hard copy and proofs to:

David Brabin
Production Department
The Spectator
22 Old Queen Street
London SW1H 9HP

Contact number: +44 (0) 20 7961 0242
Facsimile: +44 (0) 20 7961 0250
Email: production@spectator.co.uk

The Spectator is printed litho heatset web offset, and is produced CTP (computer to plate). All advertisements must be supplied as PDFs. It is the responsibility of the client to supply an accurate guide at the time of transmission. The Spectator cannot accept liability should documents received electronically be faulty. The Spectator will not be liable for any consequential loss or damage resulting from failure of any advertisement to appear from any cause whatsoever, nor does it accept liability for errors in any advertisement published nor is failure to appear on a given date.

Colour Profiles

Clicking on the this link will start downloading The Spectator’s colour settings file. To import the colour settings please do as follows:

Open Photoshop
Go to Edit > Colour Settings
Click the CMYK tab (as per the screengrab above)
Click “Load CMYK”
Locate the filed called ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI).icc and press OK.