Please send us content files only as single pages in the PDF/X-4 standard. Covers with spine, fold-out pages and inserts must be supplied as an assembled surface “in one strip”, i.e. on a single PDF page. The cover and content should be submitted as separate files.

For correct export from InDesign, you can download our presets under "DOWNLOAD".

Please upload your print files via the following link:

https://sportflieger.upload.print.family

If you do not have a customer or order number, please name the file with your full first and last name or your company name.

We generally check all submitted print files solely for their technical suitability.
If we notice any errors during the technical check, we will inform you.

You will receive a low-resolution preview PDF to review the result and approve your order for printing.
This allows you to verify that everything fits correctly after our data processing.

For the best possible print quality at an appropriate file size, we recommend an image resolution of 300 ppi. For graphics with particularly fine lines, vector files are ideal, while very complex graphics (e.g. line drawings) benefit from an increased resolution of 1,200 ppi.

If your files contain pre-screened image data (e.g. scans of printed originals), please let us know as early as possible! Together, we can avoid moiré patterns.

Please supply PDFs only in the following colour profiles:

for coated papers: PSO-coated_v3
for uncoated papers: PSO-uncoated_v3_fogra52

You can download the profiles under "DOWNLOAD". If your files are not created in the specified colour profiles (e.g. RGB elements), they will be converted automatically. This may cause unwanted colour deviations.

For our production we only require crop marks. Please do not export any additional marks such as colour control strips, registration crosses or page information.

Please also add fold marks if we are producing covers or other folded products for you.

Crop and fold marks must always be placed outside the print image and bleed area.

To avoid white streaks on the cut edges, your document should should be trimmed with 3 mm bleed on the outer edges.

If finishing is to be applied after printing, please create it as a spot colour that is visually distinct from the layout. Name it clearly according to the type of finishing.
Please use the following naming:
Die-cut
UV spot varnish
UV relief varnish
Perforation
Crease
Punching
Hot foil embossing
Blind embossing – raised
Blind embossing – recessed

Please ensure that these finishing elements are set to overprint and that the printing ink beneath is not knocked out. If the printing ink should be knocked out under the finishing, you must define this in the CMYK data.

The thickness of a brochure depends on many different factors. To ensure that the spine text is centred in the finished product and that image and colour edges align correctly, it is important to set the correct spine width in the files beforehand and indicate it with fold marks.

Please have the spine width determined by our project managers. For hardcover productions, they will also provide you with the measurements for a book cover in the form of a template.

If an image or other graphic elements extend from the inside cover (pages 2 & 3) onto the following first content page, part of the image may disappear into the spine due to adhesive areas (side gluing when attaching the cover to the book block). This must either be taken into account in the design or important image elements in this area (inside cover page 2 & content page 1, or last content page & inside cover page 3) must each be shifted 6 mm away from the spine to achieve a better transition.

If you have any questions regarding implementation, please contact our prepress department.

Everything that also applies to designing covers for brochures with a 4-page cover must be considered. However, for French brochures the outer cover pages should be set 1 mm wider than the book block width of the content. From a cover weight of 300 g/m² upwards, the cover pages should be set 1.5 mm wider.

In addition, the design should allow some tolerance for the placement of the creases at the transition to the flaps.

To avoid problems, all fonts used should be embedded in the PDF document. Please ensure that black text is created in single colour only.

The line weight used for positive lines should ideally not be less than 0.1 pt. For negative lines (e.g. white on black), a minimum of 0.2 pt applies.

1. Exposed thread stitching
   Glue can seep into the puncture holes of the stitching and, in particular, between the signatures, causing pages to stick together near the spine.
   Because of the good lay-flat behaviour, this adhesion can later be released, which may damage the design in those areas. It is therefore advisable to avoid placing motifs into the gutter – especially across spread transitions.

Uncoated paper is preferable to coated paper.

Cumulative folding and stitching tolerances are slightly higher than with brochures with covers.

2. Swiss brochure
   The gauze strip covers part of the text area on the front cover, and the cover of the finished brochures retracts slightly in relation to the content.

Depending on the stiffness of the cover material, it may not lie as flat as with normal brochures.

With Swiss brochures without a gauze strip (exposed thread stitching), the glue of the book block may tear at the inside of the cover, damaging the printed image there. To minimise this risk, we recommend using uncoated cover material on the inside.

3. OTA-bound brochure (free spine brochure)
   On the inside front and inside back cover, this binding method includes one additional decorative crease each. The overlap of the cover onto the first and last content page is around 10 mm, which is somewhat wider than with normal brochures.

Because the spine is hollow, slight tearing may occur in the spine area at the head and tail during final trimming.

4. Wire-O brochures
   The layout file must already be created as single pages so that the exported PDF has the correct bleed on all four sides.

5. Flip-back brochures
   In flip-back brochures, the rear section must be rotated by 180° and set up in reverse page order.

If this is not possible for you, please send us two separate, conventional, and clearly labelled PDFs.