1st Quarter 2005 - BIC Pens - Imprinted with your Name, Logo or Message - NO Set-up Charges
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Artwork and Proof Information
The quality of your imprint begins with your artwork. All orders requiring production art should include black and white line artwork. We recommend camera-ready and digitally produced art for the cleanest, sharpest imprint. Your graphic designer or advertising agency can supply this. At no additional charge, BIC can set copy and do light touch-ups. BIC reserves the right to delay or reject any order based on artwork received.Camera-Ready Art used to be "shot" with a camera onto photographic paper to make a stat or PMT. Now, it is usually a laser print with a resolution of 600 dpi or more.
  • It should be black & white line art withno halftones or screens.
  • Multi-color imprints need color separations for each color with registration marks and a color composite.
  • You can also try letterhead, business cards and printed pieces on flat, smooth surfaces. Please note that these usually need to be touched up to work well, which can cause delays.
  • NOT USABLE AS ART:faxes, copies of faxes, and products with curved surfaces.
Digital Art - also called electronic art, can be sent on a 3.5" disk, zip disk, CD-ROM and by e-mail. For the best results, create your art as vector art in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, save as an EPS (encapsulated postscript file), and convert your fonts to curves in CorelDraw and outlines in Adobe Illustrator.
  • Include all files that have been placed, embedded, nested or imported into your art.
  • Always send a hard copy of your artwork along with your purchase order by fax or mail.
  • STAY AWAY FROM scans of faxes, Quark files with Mac-based fonts, Microsoft multi-color files and any file with a resolution of 300 dpi or less.
  • For compression, we recommend Stuffit.
Artwork Standards
In order to give you the highest quality imprint, we have developed some artwork guidelines, which include minimum line weights. All copy should be 6 points or larger. Lines should be no thinner than .5 pt. We will redraw halftones and screens, filling them in or outlining them, and reset copy when necessary. BIC reserves the right to modify your art if it does not meet these quality standards.

Typesetting
  • Specify typeface, point sizes and case. For example:

ABC Company
1234 Abbey Rd., Our Town, FL
(000) 123-1234 		Futura Bold, 11pt., Upper/lower case
Futura Reg, 8pt., Upper/lower case
Futura Bold, 8pt.

Imprint should look like this:

  • When typestyles are not specified, our typesetters will set your copy for the best effect.
  • Remember that all copy should be at least 6pt type.example: This is 6pt. Times Roman. This is 6pt. Helvetica.
  • When you choose script fonts, they are only legible when set in Upper/Lower case.
Proofs
Proofs for BIC® writing instruments are provided upon request and include free overnight delivery or fax.Charges for proofs are as follows:
  • Layout proof (faxed): $7.00(G) per color, allow 3 additional working days for proof.
  • Product sample (per color): $25.00(G), allow 5 additional working days for product proof.

SCREEN PRINTING
  1. MATCH TRIM COLOR
    For all BIC Color Connection, BIC Billboard Retractables and BIC Mechanical Pencils, stock imprint colors have been developed to match the trim colors or complement cap or barrel colors. Simply request a "match trim" imprint.
  2. ADDITIONAL STOCK IMPRINT COLORS
    In addition to "match trim" imprint colors, the stock imprint colors shown at right are available. These imprint colors are for reference and ordering purposes and may not be exact representations of the actual colors. These colors do not necessarily match the trim color of our writing instruments.
  3. ADDITIONAL STOCK METALLIC IMPRINT COLORS
    Stock metallic imprint colors are available at no additional charge, and are ideal for products that have metal trim.

    Metallic Blue
    Metallic Gold
    Metallic Copper     		Metallic Green
    Metallic Magenta
    Metallic Silver

  4. CUSTOM IMPRINT Color Match
    Custom imprint colors, other than stock colors shown at right, are available at $32.00(F) per color. Please submit PANTONE®Matching System (PMS) number. We will match to the PMS coated (C) stock only (Example: PMS 203C).

LASER ENGRAVING
Laser engraving is available on BIC Citation®Royal Gold, BIC SteelTM Colors, The Worthington®Collection.

* NOTE:Colors may not be exact. Different products and printing processes cause slight variations in final imprint hue. Every effort will be made to match colors as closely as possible. The colors shown throughout this catalog are not intended to match the PANTONE®Color Standards.
PANTONE®is a registered trademark of Pantone, Inc.

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