Category :Tips and Tricks

Dealing with Big PDFs

We print and copy a lot of architectural and engineering plans here at Copy Express. Most of our clients come to us to get them printed because while pdfs are great to send around to...

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How can NCR books work for you?

NCR (No Carbon Required) books are one of the more interesting things we produce for our customers. We see them used still today where people use them to create recipes, invoices, work logs, and all manor...

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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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Five truths about Printing

At Copy Express we consider ourselves a very flexible and dynamic small business marketing and printing service, able to cover every step of the production process of printed material from concept, design, production, to distribution....

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A Look at the Future of Marketing

I’ve been writing articles about marketing for nearly 3 years on this blog and I thought it was about time to have bit of a talk about the what the future of marketing for a...

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Getting TWO for the price of ONE – why Gift Vouchers can help in acquiring customers

We have talked about Gift Vouchers before but with Christmas coming this is a good time to expand on it. If you hit our blog you will see in the tags section that we have...

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Design Tips & Tricks: Six simple steps for small space design

From business cards to address labels, there are countless small printed items that businesses use every day. The challenge is getting those items to be clear when you don’t have room to spread things out...

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Design Tips & Tricks: Design a direct mail piece

We have talked about Direct Mail no doubt wetted your appetite for it, now come the question on how to design material to make the best use of it. What may surprise you is that...

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Lets talk about Online Printing Companies

We have seen those companies on TV or in the banner of the websites we visit - the online based printing companies. They offer you painless printing, just upload your files or use their templates...

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Using Gift Vouchers to improve your sales

With Mother’s Day coming up we thought it would be good to talk some more about Gift Vouchers and how they can help your business in so many ways. If you haven’t already I would recommend reading...

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Stuck on labels

Beer bottle labels is one of the cool things we have done this year. Why would this be cool?  A label is a label isn’t it? No it’s not when it’s on a beer bottle....

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Technical terms explained: Fonts, Typefaces, and other wordy matters

Fonts, font families, typefaces, weights, serif, sans serif, points, em & en sizing, headline and body faces, glyphs and dingbats. What do those strange terms that have to do with putting words on to a...

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6 easy steps to planning your marketing

Recently I’ve been dealing with a several customers who have wanted to have quick response with their marketing to an external event. In couple of those cases we could not do it. We were able...

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How to design a Gift Voucher

Gift vouchers are a different kettle of fish to your normal flyer or stationery because they are usually a form of legal tender for your business. People are going to pay you money for a...

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Improve your cash flow with Gift Vouchers

Gift vouchers are everywhere these days. Stand in any checkout line and you see the 'loadable' plastic cards. Gift vouchers aren't just for big companies, they are for anyone who supplies goods or services and...

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