FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is one of the most efficient ways to send large files to a commercial printer.

When you send an art file via e-mail as an attachment, you are limited in several ways. First…Your provider of internet services (IP) will prevent you from sending large files due to the fact these large files clog up their servers and prevent them from handling their other mail traffic. Some providers will not even allow files as small as 1 megabyte to be sent. Furthermore, files go from your computer, to their server, then you are bounced all over the world wide web through various other servers, phones lines and even different countries before it reaches it's final destination. This process can take hours…even days.

FTP is the way around this problem. When you connect to our FTP site, it is as if our servers are directly connected to your computer. You are not limited in the size file that can be transferred. Clients that access our FTP site can transfer up to 10 Gigabytes to our server at 1 time (provided they have a fast connection). It is also real time. When the file is done sending, it is on our server, it is safe, it only transfers from your computer to ours and nobody else has touched it.

Please contact us for more information on how to FTP files to us.

Before you send us a file please check our capabilities and guidelines pages.