• Please email all files to mateo@bocasystems.com

•  All files must contain the job#  in the subject line of the email.  Files without the job# will be difficult to track, resulting in delays and possible loss.

Unacceptable artwork formats:   Microsoft Office,  JPEG and GIF.  Files provided in these formats will require a $150.00 re-draw fee.  We will be unable to provide the clarity of a properly formatted art file when using these file types.

Acceptable artwork formats:

All artwork is to be created in layers for easy manipulation.  Locked or flattened files will require a $150.00 re-draw fee.

Text and Line Art Images - Illustrator or Freehand

• All parts of vector line art should be referenced to an uncoated Pantone color.

• All fonts used in artwork should be provided. Otherwise convert type to vector line art.

Pictures and Process Images - Photoshop

• minimum image resolution - 300 dpi

• TIFF or EPS format  (NOTE: TIFF's created from JPEG's are not acceptable.)

Ticket Layout - Quark, In-Design or Pagemaker

• All fonts used in artwork should be provided.  Otherwise convert type to vector line art.

• Non-compressed text should be 4 points or greater ; compressed fonts must be at least 6 point.

• Inverted text should be 6 points or greater to avoid fill in.

• Use bold and/or non-seriffed fonts when using small or reverse type (under 13 point) to provide better print quality.

• Four-color process text should be non-seriffed and greater than 12 point.  NOTE: Best results are obtained with solid text.

• NOTE:  All of the font specifications assume non-compressed fonts.  Compressed fonts need to be at least 2 point sizes larger.

 General

• Colors – the press can print a maximum of nine colors.  These colors may be divided between the front and rear of the ticket in any combination.

• Color Restrictions – there can be no black printed in the path of the black sense mark.  (Refer to the Ticket Specification sheet, located on the Thermal Ticket page of our website (http://www.bocasystems.com), for additional information.

Specifications (Minimum Values):

• Pictures, process images and line art screens should not be less than 8%.

• Text screens should not be less than 70%.

• Serifs and fonts under 10 point should be avoided when using screened text.

• Boca outputs all plates at 150 LPI.

• Line thickness must be 0.006 inches minimum. (0.50 point)

Ways to receive Ticket proofs

• All proofs will be sent via email as a .pdf.

• A hardcopy "press proof" will be provided after .pdf proof approval.

Revised 06-22-07