Archive for the ‘Printing’ Category
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
In a world now becoming quickly dominated by online printers how can you be sure the one that has the flashy website and big impact, really does get the job done? Many online printers are exactly NOT that. They are brokers who markup the cost of the print and sell ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
In printing, lithographically only, ink is tacky as it is transferred onto the paper. If there is a lot of coverage, i.e. a 4-colour black (CMYK - Mentioned in this article) of e.g. 100% of all colours, this would make that area of the print particularly tacky to touch and ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Obvious you might think? Not necessarily. There are things that need to be considered when you supply artwork for print, you have to consider the whole process. You see, print work is printed more than 1-up on a sheet, depending on the size of the flyer or leaflet. As a ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
For that extra professional finish, you can choose you have your flyers or usually business cards Laminated. This process involves a heated roll machine which heats up a thin layer of "laminate" film and sticks it to the material. It's available in two finishes aswell, Matt or Gloss!
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
I have been asked many times why I think flyer printing is such an effective advertising medium so here a couple of reasons why I think flyer printing is so good at selling.
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Well hopefully one of these you will be familiar with, but the other perhaps not? Folding is the process of simply "folding" paper to make it into different shapes, usually in half or into 3rds. Creasing goes hand in hand with folding as it's also termed as a "score". It's ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
We wondered when you were going to ask that. Well it's not an industry standard process that's for certain, but it is done with the customer in mind. To enable us to offer excellent prices and service we need to waste as little paper as possible. With this in mind ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
A lot of people we speak to know that they want some Flyers, or Leaflets, but they don't know what size is best. Often bombarding them with different sizes is intimidating and they are not really sure what they mean. Well, everyone knows what A4 is, just think of a ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
It's a common one. Unfortunately, software like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign aren't easily available to some, due to their price, what is usually more mainstream is the Microsoft Office suite. Let's face it, everyone who's everyone knows how to use Microsoft Word, and as such we get a lot ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Invented by Adobe, Portable Document Format (PDF) is the published specification used by standards bodies around the world for more secure, reliable electronic document distribution and exchange.
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