The weighty matter of GSM

So you’ve sent an email requesting a quote for a brochure or a flyer and we give you the price back describing the paper as a number followed by gsm....

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When printing goes bad: Word tries to save space

Microsoft Office is a good application suite, it can do many things and for most people, it’s all they will ever need to make their life work. It is not...

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When to Time your Flyer Promotion

Flyers: we get them in the mailbox every week, and most of the time they go straight into the rubbish bin. So many of them that we don’t pay attention...

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What’s the Most Important Part of the Flyer?

When designing a flyer - especially one that is trying to sell something, most business owners and designers make a critical failure. It's easy to think that the most important...

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Do More with your Business Cards

Business Cards, boring little bits of card, little labels to tell people who you are. No practical use in promoting your business to potential clients. That’s what some people think....

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Design Tips for Business Cards

We print quite a few business cards, in a wide variety formats. I’ve seen a lot of cards that really sell the person and their business, I’ve seen a lot...

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Coated vs. Uncoated Paper

If you have contacted us about doing printing, you will get a quote back about the job and how it’s going to be printed, often including the term coated or...

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What’s the Right Size for your Flyer?

Flyers are effective way of promoting your business to the greater marketplace. The challenge is to pick one that is the right size for the job. Too big and you’ll...

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Flyers as Art

As a smaller digital print centre, we get a lot of the quirky work for smaller and more dynamic businesses. One trend I’ve been noticing of late is the concept...

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Sources for Images and Fonts

Sources for Images and Fonts Fonts and graphics/images are an important part of design. Finding an image on someone else's web sit and downloading to use in your flyer is...

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What is “print-ready” artwork?

All our prices assume that you provide "print-ready artwork". Yet, surprisingly, many of the files that we receive to print are not print-ready. If a file is not print-ready then...

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Folded Brochures

The most common type of folded brochure or flyer we create is the good-old-fashioned tri-fold. An A4 page folded into three sections, usually with one flap being folded between the...

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Resolution

No, not those horrible New Year's Resolutions that everyone abandons on Jan 3rd - I'm talking about File Resolution. We frequently get graphic images sent to us that look horrible...

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Bleed & Safe Zones

When designing your print job it is important to set it up correctly to get the best results.  All printing has limitations, and designing for those limitations will make a...

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Paper Size

The standard consumer paper size in New Zealand is A4 which is 210 x 297 mm. It is not uncommon for people to format their documents in US Letter size...

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