• The Richmond, Kingston and Elmbridge Magazines
• The Guildford, Woking and Surrey Downs Magazines
• Information for all magazines
• Online Advertising

Information for The Guildford, Woking, Farnham & Haslemere and Surrey Downs Magazines

• These magazines are saddle-stitch bound
• Outside margin: 15mm — Inside Margin: 15mm

Artwork dimensions (width x height)

• Full page with bleed - W: 230mm x H: 307mm
• Full page trim size - W: 210mm x H: 297mm (i.e. A4)
• Full page type area (editorial pages) - W: 180mm x H: 270mm
• Half page horizontal - W: 180mm x H: 132mm
• Half page vertical - W: 88mm x H: 270mm
• Quarter page horizontal - W: 180mm x H: 65mm (by special arrangement)
• Quarter page vertical - W: 88mm x H: 132mm
• Eighth page (available horizontal only) - W: 88mm x H: 65mm

Information for all Magazines

Accepted Formats

Adobe PDF (v7 or lower ~ but please see notes below), TIFF, EPS, JPEG, Adobe Photoshop (CS2 or lower ~ although TIFF or EPS formats preferred)

How to supply your artwork to us

By email: richmond@sheengate.co.uk, elmbridge@sheengate.co.uk, guildford@sheengate.co.uk or surreydowns@sheengate.co.uk

Important notes

• Colour images must be in CMYK mode (please convert spot colours to CMYK equivalents).


• Bitmap image resolution should be 300dpi at final size (higher resolution such as 400dpi is recommended where text is included in the bitmap).


• Vector artwork should be retained in vector format where possible. However, please convert text to outlines to avoid font problems with vector graphics.


• Data format should be Binary where applicable (not ASCII).

PDF files

• All PDFs must be created using Acrobat Distiller, not from the software used to create the artwork.


• Please embed/include all fonts when creating the PDF. Colour mode should be CMYK. Resolution should be 300dpi where bitmap images are included.


• For full page artwork please include printer’s marks (crop marks) and set 10mm bleed when creating PDF file, with paper size in print dialogue box set to W: 235.4mm and H: 322.4mm.


• For half page artwork or smaller please set paper size in print dialogue box to the same as the artwork dimensions (i.e. no white surround on PDF).


• Please ensure all elements necessary to print are supplied (e.g. all linked images are supplied with Quark, Illustrator and Freehand files).

Online Advertisments

• All supplied files should be either jpg, gif or animated gif at 72 dpi.


• Files should be no larger than 0.5MB (512KB).


• All supplied adverts should be the exact dimensions of the online advert. Skyscraper (W:120 pixels x H:500 pixels)
  or Banner (W: 120 pixels x H: 240 pixels)


• It is possible for our design department to create your web skyscraper free of charge if required.