As a professional manufacturer of cards in Shenzhen, Shiny, found in 2003, has both kept innovating constantly and kept improving. Shiny has become the biggest factory of Video brochures, Video greeting cards and Musical greeting cards in Shenzhen nowadays.

When we receive the artwork from customers, our designer will check if the template is the size of 1:1 at first (as shown in the figure). If not, then we cannot get it printed.

When we force it to be zoomed, the picture will be distorted.

In addition, our designer will check whether the frame and the die-line of video brochure were set to be a picture or not. We need to remove the die-line before getting artworks printed and that’s why separate vector graphics are needed. The printing factory will print them out together otherwise.

The die line needs to be separated by a solid line and a dotted line. The solid line will be the die-line, and the dotted line will be the indentation. When we don’t distinguish between solid lines and dotted lines, it is likely that some lines that needed to be created will be cut off. That would cause unnecessary loss and waste of time.

Another vital detail is “fold ear”, Why Shiny’s designer always adds this tiny ear in the artwork? because it is better to cover the internal materials and keep a beautiful exterior.

No fold ear

And with fold ear

The template includes solid lines and imaginary lines. The solid lines mean the parts that we need to cut them down. The imaginary lines are the positions of the folding.