How To Whitelist our Online Proofing Email Address
If you advertise in one of the Impact Directories and you are not receiving an email in your inbox from Impact Directories in regards to you ad or listing proofs, check you Junk mail or Spam filters. Unfortunately "Spam Filters" can be a bit of a bother, filtering out e-mail you want to receive and allowing e-mail to get through you don't want to receive.
Here are some easy ways to guarentee you receive our email when it is your time to proof.
Yahoo!
To make sure Impact's email is delivered to your Yahoo Inbox (not the Bulk Mail folder), simply instruct Yahoo to filter it to your Inbox. Here's how:
First open your Yahoo e-mail box. On the right hand side of your screen you will see "Mail Options." Left click on this. In the right hand column, under Management left click on "Filters." Then left click on "Add Filter."
Since this filter concerns receiving mail from Impact, you can call this filter "Impact." I suggest you type this in as the filter name.
Underneath the heading "if all of the following rules are true ..." go to the top row labeled "From header." Next to this you will see drop down menu. Make sure to select "contains." Then simply type in
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At the bottom, where it says "Move the message to:" simply select Inbox from the pull-down menu. Then left click on the "Add Filter" button at the bottom and you
Environmental Facts About Impact Yellow Pages
We Care Too
At Impact Directories, we strive to be responsible stewards of the environment. That's why we use recycled content, sawmill waste, soy-based inks, and water soluble glues in the production of our directories.
Soy-Based Inks
We use only the safest inks in the printing of Impact Directories. Soy based inks and non-heavy metal pigments mean the books won't damage the environment if they find their way into the landfills.
Water-Soluble Glues
Water-soluble glues make our books recyclable. The books can be redissovled into the slurry that is made to produce the new paper. This makes the recycling more efficient and profitable.
All of our paper is made from recycled content or saw mill manufacturing waste products
Impact uses only recycled paper and sawmill waste to make the paper we use to produce our phone books. Square boards are cut from round trees. What is left over, branches and other trim waste are chipped up and then turned into pulp to make our paper. If those waste products were put into land fills it would take them years to decompose.
Due to the pagination software we use, ads MUST BE saved as follows:
Save ads as Illustrator EPS, v.12.0.0 or older. High resolutions Photoshop files can be used also. Other file formats, including pdf, will be recreated in Illustrator.
Please send native Illustrator or Photoshop files whenever possible. PDFs will be recreated.
Convert ALL fonts to outline/curves/vector, or include Mac fonts with art files. PC fonts are not useable.
We cannot open files saved in FreeHand, Publisher, Photopaint, Corel Draw, Powerpoint, etc.
Ads must be inclusive! Art files with links or missing fonts will have to be recreated.
Artwork must not extend beyond the ad size as specified below, even if masked, or it will be recreated.
Include white background for knock-out.
Use only high resolution photos, 300 ppi minimum. Web graphics are generally 72 ppi and should not be used.
Convert ALL elements to CMYK.
All ads received will be checked for missing fonts & graphics, incorrect colors and unlabeled bitmaps. Any variation from these specs will require that the ad be repaired or recreated in-house.
Determine Image Quality from Source
The following is a comparison of good quality image sources vs. low quality image sources
Good Quality Image Sources
2.4 MegaPixel or better digital camera
High resolution / high quality stock photography
High resolution / high quality scanner (true high resolution, not interpolation)
Low Quality Image Sources
2.0 MegaPixel or lower digital camera
Screen capture or video frame
Low resolution / low quality stock photography
Low resolution / low quality scanner
Image lifted off a Web page
Contact Information For Submitting Artwork or Questions
1251 N. Cole Rd. · Boise, ID 83704
Ads and artwork may be mailed to the above Boise address or email to Jean Hogle .
If you choose to e–mail files to use remember that they can get stripped of vital code that identifies them as valid TIFF's or EPS's or whatever the original file types. Without compressing your files, you run the risk of sending us incomplete or "corrupted" digital files. Remember to compress them with a compression program. We prefer .zip or .sit files. Currently, any messages over 8MB might be too large to send due to email server restrictions. If file size exceeds this, consider mailing artwork in or uploading it to our FTP site. For information on how to access our FTP site, contact Jean Hogle.
Impact Directories publishes directories for 7 different areas. Please reference company name, phone number and target directory.
Why does my proof look different than what was printed in the book
Impact Directories supplies proofs for many of it's clients. These proofs are printed on an in-house office printer. The printing process from this in-house office printer from that of the Web Press that creates the directories differs dramatically. The media or paper used for supplying proofs also is different than that of the newsprint used in the directories and color will display differently on both. Based on these uncontrollable variables, color accuracy from our in-house printer to what will be printed in the directory will be impossible to reproduce.
To confront this issue, Impact employs a team of skilled graphic designers who understand these limitations and how the final product will look through experience. Many times these designers will make decisions on how color and type are used on your display ad to help ensure a better overall final product. If color accuracy is a concern for your advertisement, please consult with your sales representative about options to control color accuracy on your final product. One of the best solutions is to choose a swatch of color used in one of the Impact Directories as a reference to the color you might be requesting. The Impact designers will have access to all previous advertisers display ads and can use similar color mixtures on your ad to control color accuracy.
Why is my icon marker on the Impact maps in the wrong place?
All of the Impact Online Directories use the Google Map API for it's mapping functionality. Google supplies an excellent product, but various problems still may exist in it's mapping abilities used on the Impact Online Directory.
Does not map my address at all
Your location on the map is derived from Google's data reflecting your street address, city and state. If the Google map is not mapping your location at all, one of these three elements of data are probably not correct or missing. For example, if your address is 123 Lake Shore Dr. and Google has "Lake Shore" spelled as "Lakeshore," you may not be mapping correctly. Many times, part of the address data is missing and only a general location is supplied. An example of this would be "Serving the Treasure Valley" or "Located on the Airforce base." Neither of these are addresses that can be properly mapped by Google.
My icon marker is in the wrong location
The source of data Google uses for the maps supplied on the Impact Online Directory is TeleAtlas. If the data that TeleAtlas has supplied is incorrect, your icon will not display in the correct position. Two things can be done to fix this problem on the Impact Online Directory.
Call or email Impact with your correct location. We can use this new location to supply our Google Maps with your exact Latitude and Longitude coordinates and force the icon into the right position on our Directories.
To speed up the process, you may find your location's latitude and longitude yourself to supply to us using this free service, getlatlon.com. There are many others to choose from, we just find this one easy and to the point.
The good people at TeleAtlas have a website dedicated for corrections to their pool of data. This includes new street names and map icon locations for addresses. Once your location has been updated with TeleAtlas, the next time data is sent to Google on your location, your icon will be fix globally with everyone using the Google Map API. Here is the link where you can fix this data: TeleAtlas
