Have you ever ordered large quantities of business cards, only to have them go to waste because your mobile number or some other detail has changed?

Traditional printing techniques meant that cards were often ordered by the 1000’s.  However, with digital technology you can order just 100 business cards.  And with our 48 hour turnaround you can order then just as you are running out.  That way very few of your business cards will go to waste as you order them when you need them with your current details.

Monotype Imaging Inc. is a leading global provider of text imaging solutions and has recently expanded its Monotype(R), Linotype(R), and ITC(R) typeface collections with more than 100 designs.

New to the Monotype Library is the Slate Condensed family by Rod MacDonald, which is elegant yet functional. The fonts add six space-saving designs to the original Slate family. Another new addition is the Givens Antiqua family drawn by George Ryan and named in honor of the company’s first president and chief executive officer and current chairman of the board. The Givens Antiqua design employs a generous x-height and open proportions to promote readability.

New to the Linotype Library is the Eurostile Next family designed by Akira Kobayashi, type director at Linotype. This font is an enhanced and expanded version of the widely used Eurostile typeface family. Also new is Calligrapher Gaynor Goffe which brings the Hamada typeface, a script design that captures the feeling of ink on paper. New to the ITC Library is ITC Mattia, a design from Giuseppe Errico and is a distinctive handwriting font with scrawled letterforms.

Sylexiad is a font created by Rob Hillier, a dyslexic graphic designer from Norwich that is helping people with the condition to read more easily. The typeface is designed to accentuate the characteristics that help dyslexics to distinguish between letters.

It is being hailed as a potential breakthrough in enabling people with the condition to read more easily. Hillier found that in 2000, there was a great interest in the Higher Education sector, and particularly art and design, in dyslexia. He started to question his own reading difficulties as a result and found that he was dyslexic. At the time, there was a recommendation by dyslexia organizations for Arial, Times New Roman and Sassoon Primary.

Hillier decided to identify the factors that have a bearing on how easily dyslexics can read different fonts, and then create a new typeface countering these factors. He designed Sylexiad so that none of the letters is a mirror image of another. In the process of developing this typeface, he gained his PhD. Hillier hopes to find as wide a readership as possible for the font and it has already been taken on as Norwich School of Art and Design’s art school’s official font.

Released at the end of June, Adobe Acrobat 9 is the latest version of its primary application for creating and editing PDF files, the dominant platform-independant file format for delivering and archiving print jobs.

Acrobat 9 is already garnering an enthusiastic response from long-term and first-time users in segments including financial services, government, legal, manufacturing, and publishing. It also has the ability to unify a wide range of content into a single document with the new concept of PDF Portfolios. PDF Portfolios enable users to assemble multiple media types into one, compressed PDF file that can be customized with several professional layouts and specific branding.

Sixty middle and high school students participated via distance learning in a free eight-day writing workshop held at Boca Raton High School that was offered for the third year as part of the Oce Future Authors Writing Project, a collaborative effort by Oce North America and the School District of Palm Beach County.

During the summer workshop, students became published authors, learned how to improve their writing skills, gain hands-on understanding of how authors are published, and learn about today’s digital print and publishing opportunities. Students gain insight through interactions with Oce executives, as well as published authors, who lead interactive discussions with the students. Works from each student are compiled and digitally printed in final book form.

Workshop activities made all of the students think about what it takes to be an author. Oce contributes their resources and expertise to further the education process. They are committed to creating an inspiring educational program for youth. Oce believes that the age of digital publishing will open up more opportunities for these aspiring authors.