Production Notes

Press Specifications: The Florida Music Director is printed using offset lithography on 70lb coated enamel stock. All covers and some interior pages are printed using four-color process with the remaining pages printed in black ink.

Color: All color will be reproduced using four-color process. Advertisers may indicate a specific PMS color to be matched with four-color process.

Trim Size: 8.5 x 11 inches

Bleeds: Allow for 1/8 inch for any artwork that bleeds

Special Position/Premium Page: Guaranteed special placement requests are considered on a space-available basis for ads half-page or larger at an additional fee of $25 per insertion. Inside Front Cover, Inside Back Cover, Outside Back Cover are guaranteed with the price of the ad and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Inside guarantees must be page specific (e.g. facing President's page, facing table of contents, etc.) Due to design and layout considerations, placement guarantees cannot be made for "front 1/2 of magazine," "far forward," etc. We will make every attempt to honor such requests, but they cannot be guaranteed.

Acceptable Electronic Formats: Preferred ad format is either as composite High Resolution PDF, Tiff (Photoshop document) or EPS with all fonts outlined. Our production department is Mac-based and uses the following programs: Adobe PageMaker 6.5, Quark Express 4.0, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, and Adobe Photoshop 7. Ads must be in a format that can be read by one of these programs. All applicable fonts and images must be provided. Images must be at least 300dpi resolution at 100% of the size. Ad art should be submitted by email to . Ad art may also be submitted on CDROM to the FMD office.

Unacceptable Electronic Formats: We cannot accept electronic ads in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Powerpoint, Corel Draw or Microsoft Publisher.

Acceptable Printer-Ready Artwork: Camera-ready veloxes will be accepted if printed at 1200 dpi or greater. Negatives should be composite film 150-line screen, right-reading emulsion side down, accompanied by a proof. All hard copy submissions will be transferred to digital media, and the advertiser will be billed the cost incurred for transfer.