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PRINT SPECIFICATIONS

Advertising material requirements
Material format – PDF file (version 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 only)
Visit this page for PDF setting files for Illustrator, QuarkXpress, InDesign and Acrobat Distiller.

Note: if white space is required in an advertisement without a border, create system generated crop marks. The crop marks should exactly define the booking size.

PDF specifications
• Resolution: 300dpi
• Mode: CMYK
• All fonts embedded
• All transparencies should be flattened
• The PDF file should match the exact booking size without any extra white space
• PDF files should not have crop marks, trim marks, document header or any other information
• The dimensions of the PDF file for bleed artworks should match the exact bleed size without crop marks or extra information
• Information regarding crop marks, trim marks, document header or any other information should be provided only in the printout and not in the PDF file

File naming
Please do not use any special characters (e.g. / : !.. % etc) in the filename.

Overprint attributes
Only black text can be ‘overprint’ on colour ground. Colour text should be ‘knockout’.

Not accepted at any stage
• DCS, multitone, multichannel (more than 4 channels i.e. CMYK) and duotone images.
• Advertisements fully done in Photoshop containing text with only raster data.
• Advertisements with RGB images or RGB workspace or Spot colours.
• Advertisements with outline text.

Bleed advertisements
Keep live matter 10mm from trim edges — head, face, foot and scuff. Additionally, for double page spread bleed advertisements, keep live matter 5mm from the spine.

Colours
All colours must be built from process colours (CMYK). Spot colour advertisements, two and three colour advertisements should be built from CMYK. For information on BIA Enterprises’ colour profiles, visit this page

Sizes (all dimensions in millimetres — width X height)
Middle East & Africa and Asia Pacific magazines
Outside Front Cover: Print Area — 216 x 303
Outside Back Cover: Print Area — 216 x 303
Inside Front Cover: Print Area — 216 x 303
Inside Back Cover: Print Area — 216 x 303
Double Page Spread Colour: Print Area — 396 x 266; Trim Area — 420 x 297; Bleed Area — 426 x 303
Full Page Colour: Print Area — 183 x 266; Trim Area — 210 x 297; Bleed Area — 213 x 303
Half Page Colour Vertical: Print Area — 183 x 127
Half Page Colour Horizontal: Print Area — 88 x 266
MEDFA
Outside Front Cover: Print Area — 250 x 250
Outside Back Cover: Print Area — 250 x 250
Inside Front Cover: Print Area — 250 x 250
Inside Back Cover: Print Area — 250 x 250
Double Page Spread Colour: Print Area — 530 x 350; Trim Area — 560 x 380; Bleed Area — 566 x 386
Full Page Colour: Print Area — 250 x 350; Trim Area — 280 x 380; Bleed Area — 283 x 386
Half Page Colour Vertical: Print Area — 123 x 350
Half Page Colour Horizontal: Print Area — 250 x 170

Booking deadlines
20 Days before date of publication

Material deadlines
15 Days before date of publication

Cancellation
Cancellation deadline is the same as booking deadline. Ad materials received after deadline may not be accepted. In such cases, the publisher reserves the right to charge full rate for advertisements cancelled or material received beyond deadlines.


WEB SPECIFICATIONS

Sizes (all dimensions in pixels — width X height)

Leader Board: Size — 728x90; Creative Format  — swf/gif; Max Weight — 45 kb; Length of Animation — 15 seconds; Amount of Animation Loops (times) — Multiple Loops Within 15 seconds

Space / Super Space Banner (Right Hand Banners): Size — 300x250 / 300x600; Creative Format  — swf/gif; Max Weight — 45 kb; Length of Animation — 15 seconds; Amount of Animation Loops (times) — Multiple Loops Within 15 seconds

Horizontal (Home Page Only): Size — 468x60; Creative Format  — swf/gif; Max Weight — 45 kb; Length of Animation — 15 seconds; Amount of Animation Loops (times) — Multiple Loops Within 15 seconds

Email Weekly Newsletter Banner: Size — 468x60
 

Terms & conditions
• HTML tags: Third party tags acceptable. We can accept version up-to Flash 9, and action script 3.
• Format: GIF and JPG (landing URL to be sent separately) or Flash (in case you use flash, refer to the attachment within the email/syntax, as click tags need to be inserted in the flash file "as is").
• 45kb is the acceptable size limit of the banner artwork
• Rich Media material cannot be hosted on our server
• Upload to email
• All positions are subject to availability

Booking deadlines
The Media Booking Order/Payment should be received one month before the launch date of the advertising campaign.

Material deadlines
The material should be provided 15 days before the launch date of the advertising campaign.

Cancellation deadlines
Cancellation deadline is the same as booking deadline. Ad materials received after deadline may not be accepted. In such cases, the publisher reserves the right to charge full rate for advertisements cancelled or material received beyond deadlines.

Note: Launch of banner is subject to testing material and confirmation.

Conditions of acceptance of advertisements
BIA Enterprises reserves the right to refuse or alter any advertisement or change its position without prior notice and providing any reason for doing so. While every care is taken in compiling the advertisements, neither BIA Enterprises nor its agents accept responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissions or for any consequences arising from the publication of any advertisement, or for any loss or damage to any advertising material submitted to the publisher. The advertiser agrees to indemnify BIA Enterprises against any damages, losses or claims by third parties arising from publication of the advertisement. All advertisements must comply with all government and other statutory regulations and stipulations, and is solely the responsibility of the advertisers or their representatives and or advertising agencies. Any discounts, commissions or contract rates offered are subject to payments being received by the publisher within the stipulated credit period last announced by the publisher. BIA Enterprises reserves the right to charge the casual rate and levy a surcharge in the event of payments not being received within the stipulated credit period.

Advertorial terms and conditions
Should the advertiser avail of the benefit of advertorial, this must be submitted prior to the deadline given by BIA Enterprises. In the event that advertorial material is submitted after the deadline, BIA Enterprises reserves the right to, at its sole discretion, refuse the advertorial or replace the advertorial with another advertorial of the advertiser. BIA Enterprises also reserves the right to alter any advertorial without prior notice and without providing any reason for doing so. Advertisers, unable to submit advertorials before deadline will not be able to withdraw or cancel their advertisement booking and will still be obliged to submit the advertising material and pay the appropriate advertisement costs.