Resources – PRX Print

F.O.P. (Front of Package) Food Labelling

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:17:46 +0000

Effective starting January 1, 2026, Canada’s FOP (Front-of-Package) labelling is a mandatory black-and-white magnifying glass symbol on food packages, indicating if a product is “High in” saturated fat, sugars, or sodium, designed as a quick visual cue to help consumers make healthier choices. (Certain foods are exempt, including plain fruits/vegetables, milk, eggs, and raw meats.) The […]

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Outlining Fonts

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:17:00 +0000

Outlining fonts in Illustrator converts text into editable vector shapes, which is crucial for ensuring fonts appear exactly as designed on any computer, especially for printing or sharing, by eliminating font substitution issues, allowing infinite scaling without quality loss, and enabling creative reshaping of letters, though it makes the text uneditable as text. It’s essential for professional printing […]

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Creating a White Layer (for Clear or Polychrome Materials)

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:03:30 +0000

Building a white layer in your file is a requirement for printing on clear or metallic substrates to ensure opaqueness of ink on clear substrates and to create contrast between non-metallic and metallic images and text on polychrome materials such as silver metallic or holographic film. A white layer provides the bright, consistent “canvas” necessary […]

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What are Barcodes and How do they Work?

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:03:11 +0000

Barcodes are essential for selling products through most retailers or distributors. In Canada, barcodes are unique numbers for products, not data itself, used for quick entry into retail systems by scanners reading black/white lines; they start with a country prefix (like 0 or 754-755 for Canada), followed by a company prefix, item number, and a final […]

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CMYK vs. Pantone vs. RGB

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:02:43 +0000

RGB denotes Red/Green/Blue and is light-based and used for computer displays/monitors to create colours that are viewed on computer screens. It is also used in some free online software applications. However, RGB files must be converted to CMYK for label printing, and there is a noticeable colour shift, so we recommend using CMYK-based software to […]

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PRX Print Artwork File Guidelines/Checklist

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:02:21 +0000

At PRX Print, we want to make the artwork submission process as simple as possible. Our pricing is based on receiving high-resolution, print-ready pdf or eps files, and we include one pdf proof with all orders. Files not meeting the following requirements may be rejected, or assigned an additional art charge before proceeding. We may […]

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