Best Practices for Designing with Corjl Prints

Designing for Corjl Prints or Corjl Print Fulfillment offers a seamless way to expand your product line into the physical space while leveraging Corjl’s unique online editing experience. To ensure high-quality output and a smooth customer experience, follow these best practices.

🔍 Design Resolution

Use 300 PPI for most print-ready files to ensure crisp output.
Exceptions: For very large-format posters and banners, PPI can be lowered to as low as 150 PPI and still obtain good quality print outputs.

📰 Bleed

Corjl automatically adds the print industry standard bleed size of 0.125" (1/8 inch) bleed on all sides to the design Canvas when viewing and downloading with the Bleed.
Background images uploaded to Corjl that fill the canvas should be created with this bleed already added. This will add a total of 0.25-inches extra to Width and Height measurements to your background images.
Make sure your background image or any photos extend all the way to edge of the bleed whether the bleed is visible to the customer or not.

We recommend keeping the Show bleed setting on while designing to ensure this. You may hide the bleed for the customer when you are done.

🚑 Safety Line

Keep text and important design elements at least 0.25" inside the trim line (or edge of the canvas) to avoid cutoff during printing. This is called the "safety line."
To help keep text and other images inside this area, you will see a thin red line appear on the Canvas when images or text extend past this safety area:

🎨 Color Profile Considerations

Colors on screen may appear more vibrant than in print, especially with bright or overly saturated tones. Slight variation is normal — consider softening bright/neon colors for more predictable results.
In addition, please avoid font colors that are too light or pastel in color. Very light colors, especially for smaller text will be difficult to read on the printed page.

🗃️ File Export Formats

Corjl handles the export process and prepares files for printing for you. No need to manage file formats — just focus on a clean and clear design.