Sep 22, 2010
Print finishes include a wide range of processes for designers to investigate and use, but generally spoken print finishes can intensify the aesthetics and tactility of a printed product by adding a decorative aspect to a piece, or a textural quality. In this article I would like to give you …
Aug 25, 2010
Brochures (also called pamphlets) or flyers, hand-outs in common, can be very effective marketing tools.There are many purposes why to print a brochure or a flyer but whatever the purpose may be, you want to create a design that looks professional and attractive. Brochures almost always act as the face …
May 25, 2010
For designing digital files intended for offset printing, it’s essential that all of the images and photographs in your files are of high resolution, ensuring you a high quality print-job. Probably you have seen printed brochures or other printed marketing material that contain blurry or blocky images? This always provides …
Mar 1, 2010
Printdesign requires certain specifications to make sure that your work will be printed correctly. If graphics or images in your layout make contact with the border of your graphic document, you’ll need to use ‘bleed’. The term bleed is used for all graphic objects overlapping the border of your document, this is the area of artwork that is …
Sep 13, 2009
Mixing colors on the computer can be quite frustrating, if those colors are expected to translate to a 4-color printing press. The name of the game here is “color compromise.” The problem is that the range of available colors in CMYK, or process, printing just isn’t very big, compared to …
