The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP Partnership) has released the criteria on how to become a sustainable green printer, which help to guide printers on how to work towards sustainability. Printers who meet the criteria and are verified will be listed on the SGP Partnership website which is hoped will become and important resource for print buyers. (more…)

Looking for a business card design that’s a bit different?

After reading the book “Magic Moving Images”, a designer from the Netherlands developed his own business card using the techniques he’d learnt.

The business card is inserted into a sleeve. The special design on the card and the sleeve causes an animated effect as the business card is pulled in and out of its sleeve.

The animation should catch more attention than a standard business card and is more likely to be kept. (more…)

Your PC is rubbish and can’t handle full scale artwork?

Neither can mine, so the best thing to do is to scale it down to half or even quarter size when youre designing it. When you give the file to the printers they will scale it up at their end without much loss of quality (none if its all vector!). As long as your original pictures and images are of a decent quality, your scaled output shouldnt be too bad. (more…)

People who have bought cheap business cards often feel the need to ask for their cards to be laminated. Older printing systems have historically produced cheap business cards with low quality print in which the ink was not dry before the cards were delivered. This meant that the ink would rub from one card to the back of another (called set-off).

Everydayprint.co.uk produce high quality, low cost business cards on a digital system which fuses the toner into the paper, ensuring that there is no risk of the print either smudging, or marking the back of the next card in the box. And at a really good price and quick delivery Everydayprint.co.uk offer a brilliant service.

Print ready artwork can be saved from the following software programs: Adobe Photoshop® CS,
Adobe Illustrator® CS, Adobe InDesign® CS, Macromedia Freehand®, QuarkXpress®.

All images must be saved as High resolution DPI (dots per inch) this describes the number of dots that fit horizontally and vertically into a one-inch space. Generally, the more dots per inch, the more detail captured and the sharper the resulting image. (more…)