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Durability: Ink on pucks will wear with use. The NHL changes pucks every 2 minutes in game action, ink on those pucks last 15-20 minutes in game play. We've had testing on our pucks at different levels, in Men's hockey, after 65-70 minutes of play, the logos had minimal ink wear. We use anti-abrasives and hardners in our inks to help reduce wear. Multi-color logos tend to wear better than single color.
Submitting Your Logo or Artwork:
After making your order you need to contact us with the design of your puck. Email us the artwork, description, and any special requests you may have. We will reply back to you in 24-48 hours with the proof that will be printed on your pucks.
Make absolutely sure that you have the correct number of colors and the correct quantity. In case of doubt about the number of colors, contact us first and place your order after we confirmed the correct number of colors.
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Our program of choice is Illustrator EPS (Adobe Illustrator) files .ai files. We use PC's and the software programs CorelDraw 12, Adobe Photoshop CS, and Adobe Illustrator 10 as our primary graphics software. We accept most artwork files that can be imported in any of these programs.
When you are sending art to be used for printing, we prefer vector type files. These are files that have been created in programs like CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand. Bitmap files, e.g.: Photoshop .psd or .tiff files saved at 300 dpi or greater should also produce an acceptable result.
If you are an Adobe Illustrator user, please save your files as Illustrator EPS files. Also convert all text to OUTLINES. This can be done simply by selecting the text and choosing the "Create Outlines" selection under the "Type" menu. It is very important that you do this, as we may not have your fonts on any of our computers.
We also can use files created in Adobe Photoshop in their native .psd format. Try to keep file sizes under 5 meg. You can compress your files using a compression program like WinZip or Stuff-It and we'll unzip them on our end.
Here are the type of files that we can accept: (We use PC's, not Mac's.)
Ideal Files:
CorelDraw .cdr
Adobe Illustrator EPS or .ai
Windows Metafile .wmf
Photoshop EPS or .psd
Adobe .pdf
Tiff files
Less than Ideal Files (May incur an art charge):
JPG
BMP
GIF
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To be more accurate, a 'Color' is really a screen. For example, if white is found on both sides of the puck, that's two different screens and hence, two colors. We tend to use the terminology number of colors instead of number of screens because most customers can better relate to how many colors their job has then how many screens it requires.
2 sided: When quoting 2 sided jobs all you need to do is add total number of colors used (even if you use the same color on both sides it counts as 2 colors). If the logo is 3 colors and they want it on both sides, it's a 6 color total. Refer to the 6 color total on the chart for pricing. A clear coat will add another color to the total. 3 color logo both sides with clear coat both sides - 3+3+2 = 8 color total.
Durability: Ink on pucks will wear with use. The NHL changes pucks every 2 minutes in game action, ink on those pucks last 15-20 minutes in game play. We've had testing on our pucks at different levels, in Men's hockey, after 65-70 minutes of play, the logos had minimal ink wear. We use anti-abrasives and hardners in our inks to help reduce wear. Multi-color logos tend to wear better than single color. We can put a clear coat on the puck to further reduce wear. We don't use a clear coat often but it would add another color to the total cost.