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- Non Profit Printing & Raising Money - Non-profits, religious and charity organizations depend on donors for survival. Direct mail and printing...
- The Effect of Digital Printing on the Printing Industry - The start for the sake of argument started with the Xerox Docutech and...
- Building Bleed into a Bitmap Program - If you use a bitmap program like ("Adobe Photoshop") beware of subtle differences from the page layout programs...
- Offset Printing Color on Glossy Paper - If you are trying to make your print job jump off the sheet you should print in color on a glossy...
- Graphic Printing and Distribution Services - Graphic printing and distribution services are when you incorporate printing whether it be...
- Variable Print Programming - Variable printing by definition is where either image or text changes from one impression...
- Online Printing Services - There are many online printing services now available over the internet...
- Pros Cons Print on Demand - More and more these days people call and ask the question of what are the pros cons of print on demand...
- Job Requirements of Digital Printing - What are the requirements of printing a digital print job...
- Turn of the Century Offset Printing - Offset presses can cock the cylinder or laterally move any one plate through computer controls on the console...
- Define Digital Printing - The most common definition for digital printing is going to be taking an electronic file and going straight to a digital press...
- Offset Printing vs Digital Printing - Offset is usually looked at as the higher quality choice, although, digital printing has vastly improved to where the difference is pretty small now...
- Pros and Cons of Digital Postcard Printing - The good about doing postcards digitally is you can do very small quantities and you are not dealing with setups like you do on offset printing...
- Digital Postcard Printing - Postcards or direct mail pieces can be printed on a digital press in very short runs...
- Political Campaign Printing - Political campaigns use several different types of printing to get their candidates messages across...
- Spot Color or Spot Coating in Digital Printing - Digital printing continues to try and do more things that close the gap between digital printing and normal offset printing..
- Commercial Printing Tips-Gradient Screens - A gradation in printing jobs is taking a certain area and taking screen percentages from one % to...
- Commercial Printing Tips-Screen Tints - Screen tints or screen percentages can help give an illusion of having additional colors in commercial printing jobs...
- Commercial Printing Tips-Reverse Type - Graphics software has made it so easy to do things that were once very difficult to do in commercial printing...
- What is the job of a Printing Salesman? - Like any job in this world, printing sales for a commercial printer is only successfully done by about 20% of the people that try it...
- All brochures are the same - A brochure usually entails folding. If there is no folding most people call it a flyer...
- Dallas Commercial Printing Market - The Dallas-Ft Worth commercial printing market is the largest in the state of Texas...
- Dallas Printing Company, Since 1923. - The Odee Company was established in 1923 by a man named Will Odee...
- Critical Deadline!! Will your printer deliver? - I see hundreds of print jobs every month and the vast majority has a critical deadline, some of which are extremely quick turn times...
- Digital Printing Dallas - Digital printing is made for print on demand type situations...
- Dallas Commercial Printing - Another large Dallas printing company has declared bankruptcy...
- Building Bleed into a Layout Program - When creating your design in a page layout program like QuarkXpress or InDesign if you want to create a bleed...
- Building Bleed into a Bitmap Program - If you use a bitmap program like ("Adobe Photoshop") beware of subtle differences from the page layout programs...
- Building Bleed in a Vector Program - If you use a vector program like ("Adobe Illustrator"), set the new document size to the trim size...
- Building a Bleed on Printed Pieces - Let me start with the term trim because it is the primary factor in using bleed on brochures, flyers, doorhangers ...
- Doorhanger Printing - Many ad campaigns use door hangers as effective tools for creating awareness through direct marketing...
- Printing Digital Business Cards - First of all, I would not recommend printing business cards digitally on a gloss cover...
- Articles about Graphic Arts - All processes of offset printing, web printing, digital printing and the finishing industries are discussed...
- Full Color Commercial Printing - Full color printing usually means printing in the primary colors of CMYK...
- Software Programs in Printing - As a commercial printer we get files from all kinds of software programs...
- Debossing vs Embossing - Both of these terms are letterpress terms that describe the pushing of paper to a level not equal to the original surface...
- What is a Full size printing press? - A full size printing press is one that is capable of printing up to a 28"x40" printed sheet...
- Perfecting Presses - A printing press that can print both sides of the sheet in one pass is called a perfecting press...
- Line Screen in Printing - In theory the more lines per inch the more detailed your photos...
- What is a Small Format Press? - A Small Format press is a printing press that feeds a 14"x20" press sheet and is made for the short quantity market for printed products...
- What is a Half Size Press? - The term half size press represents a press that will feed a 20" x 28" sheet or smaller...
- Converting Printed Envelopes - The printing is not limited because of a ready made envelope...
- All Digital Printing is not the same - First of all, there is black and white digital printing and color digital printing...
- Alterations in Printing - An alteration in a print job is where there is a customer change that is a billable item beyond what was originally quoted...
- What is a Press Check? -
So you've given your first brochure, pocket folder or other print job to a printer you have seen a proof and everything looks fine...
- Overs and Unders in Printing - Many people don't understand when a printer says he can deliver +/- 10% of the quantity ordered...
- Variable Data Printing - Variable data printing is also called "one to one marketing" or "personalization"...
- Labels and Stickers - Printed labels and/or stickers have many choices when it comes to the types of adhesives and backers you can choose from...
- Ganging Print Runs - As an example let's say we are printing 8-8.5x11 brochures printed process on both sides...
- Indigo Digital Press Inks - The HP Indigo is a brand of digital press that uses a unique liquid ink called ElectroInk...
- Starting Small, Growing Big. - Digital Printing has enabled you to have that opportunity. You don't have...
- On Demand Printing - The term on demand printingis used to describe printing brought into the JIT(just in time)...
- What is a Page to a Printer - A page to a printer is one side of a sheet that is the finished size of the document...
- Printing Metallic Inks - When someone is printing metallic inks they are trying to get a metallic look or a shine...
- Full Color Printing - To a commercial printer, full color printing is printing in CMYK...
- Printing Postcards - Printing postcards and dealing with the post office doesn't have to be scary..
- Commercial Printing and PDF Workflows - PDF workflows have the ability to streamline commercial printing and enable more throughput in automated workflows...
- Trapping in Printing - The term trapping to printers means printing ink over ink...
- What is rich Black? - In printing the term rich black represents printing 100% of black and some combination of another color behind.
- CMYK No-No - Here is something that we see beginning designers do that is not reproducable in the print world...
- Digital Printing PMS Colors - Most knowledgeable printing veterans even believe that you can't print PMS colorswhen printing digitally...
- A chronological production of Pocket Folders - The pocket folderwill however need a dieline that shows the place where the diecutting occurs...
- Online Print Procurement System - Online print production workflows have gained considerable ground in popularity as their versatilities have grown...
- Coatings or Varnishes - Coatings and/or varnishes are used for different reasons in printing jobs...
- Offset Printing - What does it mean? - The term offset printing or offset lithography is one of the most common methods of commercial printing today...
- Sizes of Printing Presses - Although not totally comprehensive here are the most common sizes of offset presses...
- Brochure: A definition - A small booklet or pamphlet, often containing promotional material or product information......
- Picking A Printing Company - While it is not as critical as choosing who you are going to marry, choosing a printer does hold similarities.....
- Kisscutting in Printing - When printers talk about kisscutting they are not referring to anything to do with kissing....
- Diecutting in Printing - Ever wonder how printers cut odd or irregular shaped products like pocket folders out of paper?...
- Printing with Duotones - ...there can be considerable savings when printing only two colors if Duotones are incorporated...
- Folding of Printed Products - Here are a few thoughts on folding brochures or any other printed products...
- Print or Photocopy? - This article could also be called digital printing or offset printing...
- Printing Terms - Abrasion Resistance- The resistance to scratching or scuffing of a surface of paper...
- Bindings for Printed Products - How many different ways can you bind printed products?...
- Envelope Sizes-People are Always Asking - Here is a list of common size preconverted envelopes...
- Health and Environment (Printing related issues)
- Printing Articles from other sources
- Promotional Products
- Directory of Promotional Products Pages
- Promotional Products Blog
- Promotional Products Articles
- Promotional Products Articles from other sources
- Advertising - Advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas...
- Advertising Specialties - Advertising Specialties or Promotional Products is the imprinting of company logo...
- Bags - A bag is a container that is usually used for storing or holding something...
- Brand - In marketing, a brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a product or service...
- Calendars - A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days...
- Clothing - Humans nearly universally wear articles of clothing...
- Drinkware - Drinkware is a general term for the class of vessels from which people drink...
- Embroidery - Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials...
- Foam Hand - A foam hand, also known as a foam finger...
- Gifts - A gift or present is the transfer of money, goods, etc., without the direct compensation...
- Hat - A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear...
- Logo - A logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand...
- Magnets - A magnet is an object that has a magnetic field...
- Marketing - Is the process of planning and executing the pricing...
- Merchandise - In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered...
- Pen - A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to some surface...
- Promotion (Marketing) - Promotion is one of the four aspects of marketing...
- Promotional Items - A promotional item is merchandise given away free of charge to the public in an effort to promote ....
- Promotional Products - Promotional Products or Advertising Specialties is the imprinting of company logo...
- Publicity - Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public's perception of a product.
- Public Relations - Public relations is, simply-stated, the art and science of building relationships between
- Publishing - Is the industry of the production of literature or information...
- Sales - Sales, or the activity of selling, forms an integral part of commercial activity.
- Sales Promotion - In marketing, sales promotion is one of the four aspects of promotion.
- Silkscreen - Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique...
- T-shirts - A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt, usually buttonless, collarless and pocketless, ...
- The Odee Company - Is a commercial printer and promotional products company headquartered in Dallas ,Tx.
- Tradeshow - A trade fair (or trade show) is an exhibition organised so...
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