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Advertising Specifications


Trim Size

8 1/8" X 10 7/8"

1Page Bleed

8 3/8" X 11 1/8"

1 Page Non-bleed

7" X 10" 2/3

Page Vertical

4 ½" X 10"

½ Page Vertical

4 ½ " X 7 ¼"

½ Page Horizontal

7" X 4 7/8"

1/3 Page Square

4 ½" X 4 7/8"

1/3 Page Vertical

2 1/8" X 10"

1/3 Page Horizontal

7" X 3 3/8"

¼ Page

3 3/8" X 4 7/8"

1/6 Page Vertical

2 1/8" X 4 7/8"

1/6 Page Horizontal

4 ½" X 2 ½"

Printing

Sheet-fed offset. Saddle stitched. Page is 3 columns, each column 13 picas wide. Depth of column is 10 inches. All essential elements should be kept 3/8" in from edges.

Printed Materials

Black and white and two color - recommended 133 or 150 line screen, maximum 175 line screen. Negative film, right reading, emulsion side down. Process color films, preferred 150 line screen, maximum 175 line screen.

Inks

Exact duplicates of proofs provided on special stock or with altered inks cannot be achieved. For best results, follow S.W.O.P. recommendations when preparing material.

Electronic File Specifications

  • Send on CD's, Zip 100 or 250, Optical or Jazz Disk or CD.
  • Use PC or Mac version of Quark, Pagemaker, Freehand 8 or lower, Illustrator or Photoshop.
  • Save as PDF, EPS, tiff, pic, giff, or jpeg if no alterations will need to be made to file - and only film output. Otherwise send in program chosen above.
  • Include fonts and graphics
  • SEND HARD COPY COLOR PROOF, ALONG WITH FILE - FOR CHECKING PURPOSES

Shipping Instructions

For advertisements running in all nine Dodge Construction Publications, film should be sent to three different production departments:

1)

Trudy Ung

Magazines: California Construction

 

(tel 626-932-6193)

Northwest Construction

 

Dodge Production Dept

 

 

1333 So Mayflower Ave.

 

 

Monrovia, CA 91016

 

  trudy_ung@mcgraw-hill.com  

 

 

 

2)

Jay Hartwell

Magazines: Intermountain Contractor

 

(tel 801-974-2846)

Southwest Contractor

 

McGraw-Hill/Production

Colorado Construction

 

1743 W Alexander St

 

 

Salt Lake City UT 84119

 

  jay_hartwell@mcgraw-hill.com  

 

 

 

3)

Maelane Rhodes

Magazines: New York Construction

 

(tel 225-292-8980)

Louisiana Contractor

 

Louisiana Contractor/Production

Texas Construction

 

4000 S. Sherwood Fkorest Blvd. Ste 202

Midwest Construction

 

Baton Rouge LA 70817

South Central Construction

  maelane_rhodes@mcgraw-hill.com

Southeast Construction

For advertising rates, click on the publication below:

California Construction

New York Construction

Colorado Construction

Northwest Construction

Intermountain Contractor

South Central Construction

Louisiana Contractor

Southeast Construction

Mid-Atlantic Construction

Southwest Contractor

Midwest Construction

 

 


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