Category :Printing

How to get better cellphone photos for printing

These days everyone has a cellphone on them that can take pretty good photos that you can use for marketing. The trick is not taking “pretty good,” you want to take “great” photos that will...

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Explaining Digital Photo Terminology

We have talked about digital photography several times in the blog over the years. While we have done our best to keep the technical terms to a minimum, and explain it in plain English where...

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Just In Time Printing – Doing Smaller Runs More Often

Not so long ago printing was a labour intensive time consuming process. Laying out documents by hand, etching printing plates, print and letting the ink dry on the page, doing finishing like trimming by hand,...

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The A B C’s of Paper Sizes

Why is A4 smaller than A3 paper? Why is there a still a Foolscap refill pad size for school? Why does the printing company squash my flyer or not print it at all when it...

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Paper Terminology – the sequel

Paper, the life blood of the printing industry. Coated and uncoated, matte, silk, gloss, boards, card, translucent, plastics, raw and recycled, digital, off-set, laser; we bandy about these terms while talking to you about your...

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Quick Guide to Designing for Wide Format

So you want to design a big poster or banner. We all know that most computer programs like Office or Publisher have problems dealing with something as big as an A1 sheet of paper. There’s...

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Your display options for Wide Format

So you have just had a big poster or banner printed and want to stick it on the wall or a fence so everyone can see it. Maybe you are going to a trade show...

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What is Wide Format Printing?

In answer to the question posed by the article headline, essentially wide format is printing on material larger than A3 in size that uses ink-jet technology (squirting) rather than toner & lasers or ink and...

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The 5/15/60 Second Rule for Marketing

We live in a fast pace world. Everyone has to do more with their limited time. There are countless more things demanding their attention. It has been found that people now tend to spend their...

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When things go wrong and how we can put it right for you

I’ll have to be honest here, while we try our best to produce the best printed material for your needs, sometimes things go wrong. We are human and mistakes get made. Sometimes we get more...

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