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Magazines

A magazine’s design and stock choice sets the scene; it tells a story before it’s even opened.

Full-colour magazines and booklets are available in a variety of styles.

We offer a standard saddle stitched, A4 gloss magazine, as well as more specialised options. Separate covers, different stocks, PUR and burst binding – these all give you the flexibility to customise your look for each and every client.

Printing Options

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Printing Options Artwork Guidelines Artwork Templates
  • A3, A4, A5, A6, DL
  • 8 – 200 page format depending on your selected stock weight
  • Full Colour one or both sides printed
  • Black and White / Grey Scale
  • Covers can be Matt or Gloss Celloglazed depending upon stock weight
  • Celloglazing available on one or both sides of covers only
  • Burst Binding and Perfect Binding
  • Other options are available on request
  • 80gsm through to 200gsm
  • Gloss and Bond stock
  • Recycled stock options also available
  • Not all stock types are available in every gsm
  • Next Day dispatch available on a wide range of Offset Magazines. Contact us for more details.
5mm for all sides.
5mm for magazines/booklets.
PDF version 1.4 or higher formats only.
300 dpi for all images and artwork at full size; 800 dpi for all text as an image.
CMYK or grey scale only.
All fonts are embedded or converted to curves so they print correctly.
Overprint must be turned off

 

 

 

General Instructions:

  • Artwork must be correctly sized with required amounts of bleed
  • All transparency effects are to be flattened
  • Overprint must be turned off
  • All colour profiles are to be removed
  • Ensure all images are at correct resolution
  • Registration marks, keylines, dielines and other non-printing items must be removed
  • Crop marks, if required, are to be positioned outside bleed area
  • We recommend keeping text and non-bleed images at least 10mm from trim line as Booklet “creep” will occur during finishing

Should we need to contact you regarding your artwork, you will be contacted by email only. LEP Colour Printers do not correct, modify or proofread artwork. All files are printed as supplied to us.

  • DL Magazine Saddle Stitched
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  • DL Magazine Perfect or Burst Bound
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  • A5 Magazine Saddle Stitched
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  • A5 Magazine Perfect or Burst Bound
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  • A4 Magazine Saddle Stitched
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  • A4 Magazine Perfect or Burst Bound
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Next-day dispatch magazines? Yes, that’s right. NEXT day!

LEP is the only printer in Australia that offers a magazine range guaranteed to be despatch within 24 hours. Add to that our excellence in offset printing quality, and it’s a service that’s hard to match.