TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS for Print material

Time Limits

  • Daily

    • 3 business days, before 12 am

  • Carrières

    • Ads on text page or ear piece - Order and materials lead time: Tuesday 9 am
    • Classifieds - Order and materials lead time: Wednesday 9 am

  • Sortir

    • Order lead time: 1 week before publication, Thursday 10 am
    • Materials lead time: Monday 12 am

  • Week-end Section and Samedi culturel

    • Order lead time: 1 week before publication, Friday 10 am
    • Materials lead time: Wednesday 12 am

  • Obituaries

    • The day before not later than 19 pm by+41 (0)22 888 59 91 or e-mail

Format Specifications

  • Minimum total for advertisements and réclames: 40mm(1 col40mmor 2 col 20mm)
  • Maximum total millimetres (number of columns x height) for advertisements: 3,000mm.
  • Advertisements over 400mmhighwill be invoiced at the total page height.

Reproduction Specifications

  • Le Temps

    • Newsprint 45 g/m2
    • Stochastic screening. The correct resolution is 200 dpi for images, 1,270dpi for a logo or a drawn element.
    • UCR/GCR 240%(maximum CMYK coverage)

  • Hors-Séries

    • Magazine paper 65 g/m2
    • Screen 60l/cm. Image resolutionmust be 300dpi.
    • UCR/GCR 280% maximum

Digital Printing Materials

  • Format PDF/X3

    • Data mus tbe transmitted in high-end PDF/X3 format in accordance with Print Online SA specifications. The Adobe Acrobat Distiller (from version 3.01) is required to produce PDF/X3 files.

    • Format *.txt

      • Texts for advertisements to be composed may be delivered in unformatted Word file (.txt).

    • Important

      • We do not accept Truetype characters.
      • Advertisements prepared on office software (MSWord,MS Excel, etc.) need to be processed by our DTP system.
      • Always attach a 1:1 colour print of the advertisement.

    • Data Transmission

      • Via PrintOnline

        • PrintOnline is the best solution for the digital transmission of your files. POLDIRECT transmits your advertisements quickly and safely to connected publishers. Information on request or under www.pdfx-ready.ch.

    Pantone Colours Converted into Quadrichrome (CMYK)

    • Le Temps is entirely printed in four colours. For all advertisements ordered in black + one Pantone colour, a filemust be supplied converted into 4 colours (CMYK). Theremay be variations between Pantone colours and quadrichrome. Advertisersmust accept such variations.

    Data Transmission

    • Composition

      • Time limit for advertisement proofs: 4 days.
      • Proofswill not be supplied for advertisements of less than a quarter of page.
      • Subject tomodifications.

      encarts

      • Recommandations pour la palettisation des encarts

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