Introduction

The artwork for your order that you submit to woodencoin.com is used to print the ink onto the coins. Depending on the format the artwork has been submitted in, woodencoin.com does perform some computer processes on the artwork to make the artwork printable.

• Artwork (graphics, text) needs to fit on the coin that is 1 ¾ inches (4.4 cm) in diameter.
• For graphics files attached to an email, the accepted formats are: bmp, pdf, jpg, tif. If you want to submit a file in a different format, please call and ask.
• Artwork files can be sent as an attachment to an email and sent to woodencoin.com or be sent as hard copy (paper) via standard post. The postal mail address can be found here. Hard copy artwork must be suitable for scanning.
• Artwork processes better if it is done as a black and white image. Since multi-colour printing is not available, extra colours in the artwork may not produce expected results.
• If you are submitting the artwork as a PDF file, fonts should be embedded in the file. Your software may also provide the option to convert text to curves. This is recommended also.

Simple example for someone who is not a Graphic Artist

For those of you that have the graphics artwork on their computer (PC) as a displayable image but do not know how to use sophisticated graphics programs to export the artwork in one of the accepted file formats, there is a simple way to get the artwork to woodencoin.com. The following describes how you can do that on a standard PC compatible computer. Note that MS Windows XP is the PC's operating system in this example.

1) Display your artwork on the computer screen using a program that you are comfortable with. If possible, zoom into the image so that it takes up a large portion of your display screen. See Fig1 for an example. Zooming in is required so that a high enough resolution image will be captured for woodencoin.com to be able to derive coin print information.


Fig 1: Note logo almost fills screen

2)Next, do what is known as a screen capture. This is done by pressing the "Print Screen" (aka "PrtScn", or "Print Scrn") button on the upper right area of your keyboard. An image that is a copy of your computer screen is sent to the computer's clip board.

3) MS Windows comes with a simple image editing program called Paint. You will use this program to load the screen capture and then save the image as a jpg file. To open the Paint program, click your mouse on the Start button at the lower left corner of your computer screen to open up the Start window. Click on the item "All Programs" to open up a menu of programs. Click on the menu item "Accessories" to open up another menu of programs. Click on the menu item "Paint". This will start the program "Paint".

4) In the Paint program, click on the top menu item Edit and select Paste. This should cause a picture of the computer screen you just captured to appear in the window of the Paint program.

5) To save the screen capture image to a file, click on the Paint programs top menu item File and select Save As. In the dialog box that opens, select "jpg" from the list of file types in the "Save as type" edit box. You may want to pay attention to where the file is going to be saved as you will email that file to woodencoin.com. You may want to change the name of the file you are about to save. Click on the "Save" button.

6) Email the file to woodencoin.com (email address: info@woodencoin.com). Please provide some information in the email so that woodencoin.com knows who the coin will be for, and any other info that is relevant to your order.