The following information covers our basic submission requirements.

pdf All of our downloadable documents, including
Distiller settings etc can be found here.

Full page image area for Torch, Review and Valley Times: 38 cm x 261.4mm
Screen ruling: Stochastic 36 - dot gain @ 20%-30%
No bleed available


Full page image area for Northern Beaches Weekender: 33 cm x 261.4
Screen ruling: Stochastic 36 - dot gain @ 18-25%.
Bleed available (please contact us for further information).


If Torch is required to scan photographs on your behalf, these photos MUST be free of copyright. Photos lifted from other publications, books, catalogues, etc, or anything marked with a copyright notice, will be queried and, if no permission for use is obtained, we will be forced to refuse them for scanning.


TORCH, REVIEW and VALLEY TIMES

All our papers are sold in a modular format. A standard module is 2 columns wide x 4.5 cm deep (EGN) or 2 columns wide x 6 cm deep (Real Estate). Single column ads are only available in the classifieds section.

General Advertising
1 column - NA
2 column - 63.4
3 column - NA
4 column - 128.8
5 column - NA
6 column - 194.2
7 column - NA
8 column - 259.6 mm (Full Page Width)

Note: To ensure perfect fit of your advertisement on the finished page it is advisable to allow 1 mm clearance top and bottom of the ad. This will prevent its border touching the next ad on the page. e.g. If your ad it 200mm deep, make it up to 198 mm. ALL papers are 38 cm deep. All ads are calculated as column/centimetre or modular measure.

Colour Output Requirements

Torch use the standard Fairfax colour settings when producing papers.

Fairfax colour settings file can be downloaded here


As our papers are electronically paginated, we prefer to receive all supplied ads or content electronically - either by disk or e-mail. Please refer to the section on sending electronic material later in this document.


TORCH SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
As all Torch Publishing papers are electronically paginated we only accept advertising material supplied on disk or via e-mail or ftp.
OUR PREFERRED FORMAT IS PDF Files, created by Acrobat Distiller
Due to font licensing issues, we no longer accept material in native formats eg. Quark, InDesign, Word, Powerpoint, MS Publisher etc.
NOTE: Customers are not allowed to supply a typefaces to an individual or company who do not already own valid licenses for the typefaces, customer may be liable and printer could also be liable without owning their own license. Customers are allowed to submit a font with a print job IF AND ONLY IF the individual or company already owns a valid license for all of those typefaces. This allowance is to ensure that the job images exactly as the customer created it.

We also accept jobs via Quickcut
Disks can be sent to: Torch Publishing, 47 Allingham St, Condell Park NSW 2200 or you can e-mail files under 3 megabytes.

You can, however, FTP files of any size to our FTP server. You can contact us regarding guest access or, if you will be dealing with us frequently, we can set up a private directory for you. Contact us for further information.

When sending files electronically, please include a short e-mail confirming the details of the file. The issue date, publication, size of ad, client and agency information should be considered a minimum requirement. Also include a contact phone number so we can reach you in the event of a problem.