Mechanical Data
Mechanical data for advertising materials
Please note the following information carefully, FIRST Magazine is not A4 standard size.
| Full page (trim) | Depth 297 mm x Width 220 mm |
| Full page (type) | 265mm x 177mm |
| DPS (trim) | 297mm x 440mm |
| DPS (type) | 265mm x 396mm |
| Bleed | 3mm on each edge |
| Colour Screen | 150 |
| Mono Screen | 133 |
| Screen angles | Black 15, Cyan 75, Magenta 45, Yellow 90 |
| Machine printing sequence | Black Cyan Magenta Yellow |
| Printing process | Sheet fed litho |
| Binding | Perfect |
| Ink | To European standard 4666 |
| Dot gain | Allow for 12% dot growth |
Supplying electronically
Ads created in QuarkXpress must be supplied in a Mac compatible format. The images (a minimum of 300 dpi and CMYK, saved as jpegs, tiffs or eps) and fonts (printer and screen fonts) used in the advert must accompany the QuarkXpress document. We can also accept high resolution pdf files (a distiller file is available with our printers' settings). Please email material to production@firstmagazine.com or post a CD or zip disk to Rachel Dipper, FIRST Magazine, 56 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RN, UK.
Supplying by film
We must be supplied with positive sets of film. They should be emulsion side down, right reading and polyester based. They should have hard contact dot and if duplicated, match exactly in value the previous master positives.