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What is Giclee?

December 16, 2008 in Print, Printing, Twitter Posts by projectcenter | No comments

Giclee is a type of printing that allows art and photography to be printed on materials such as canvas or special photo paper. Designers will often ask, because people sometimes do not understand the term Giclee, if a printer can ‘print on canvas’. Certain machinery is needed for such a print job. Thus, only certain printers offer this service.

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Basic Questions When Requesting A Packaging Quote

December 4, 2008 in Print, Printing, Twitter Posts by projectcenter | No comments

When a client requests an estimate on a packaging project, there are four basic questions to ask:

1) What type of product? - In other words, is this a Straight Tuck End, Reverse Tuck End, Auto Bottom Box, etc (more to come on these, but check out http://www.allpack.com/packagingschool/apcguidetubestylecartonsdefined.html).

2) What substrate or material?- This could be C1S cardstock or Clay Coated News Back (CCNB), etc.

3) What are the dimensions? Always get the dimensions in Length x Width x Depth.

4) What is the quanitity needed?

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Printing: What is PMS?

December 2, 2008 in Design, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Print, Printing by projectcenter | No comments

Slow down Cowboy! I am not talking about what you think I am. Get yer mind out of the gutter.

When I refer to PMS, I am talking about the Pantone Matching System. Pantone, Inc. (www.pantone.com) is a company that creates color, so to speak. In technology, as an example, there are many standards such as IEEE, USB, 802.11 and so on. In the marketing and design industry, Pantone acts as the standard language for color across the world. They create the colors, code them with numbers, manufacturer to color tools like color wheels, etc. Some industries that use color in a critical sense are digital technology, fashion, home, plastics, architecture, contract interiors and paint.

Obviously, this is used in printing as well. Especially amongst larger companies, color for branding purposes becomes important. When these companies deliver a graphic design that needs to be printed, it is common for them to supply PMS color numbers. When these number are supplied, the printer needs to match these colors in the print process. If not, the work becomes garbage.

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ProjectCenter is a single-source service company providing marketing and document solutions to small, medium and large-sized businesses in the U.S. area. ProjectCenter is based in Phoenix, Arizona and its services include graphic design, web design, printing, copying, scanning and mailing. For more information, please call (602) 252-6655 or visit  www.makepapereasy.com.

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Book vs. Text vs. Cover

November 18, 2008 in Print, Printing by projectcenter | No comments

Book, Text and Cover are names referring to the kind of paper used in a printing job. Most commonly, you’ll hear terms like ‘100lb Gloss Book’, ‘80lb Gloss Text’ or ‘130lb Gloss Cover’.

Text and Book are essentially the same paper. It depends on who you talk to. This type of paper stock is typically used for brochures, flyers and posters, which has the thickness of a regular piece of paper, generally speaking.

Cover is a thicker paper stock that verges on the thickness of cardstock. Cover, as its name would suggest, can be used for the outside cover of pamphlets and booklets, as well as postcards and business cards.

 

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ProjectCenter is a single-source service company providing marketing and document solutions to small, medium and large-sized businesses in the U.S. area. ProjectCenter is based in Phoenix, Arizona and its services include graphic design, web design, printing, copying, scanning and mailing. For more information, please call (602) 252-6655 or visit www.makepapereasy.com.

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Digital Printing vs. Offset Printing (Part 2)

November 13, 2008 in Print, Printing by projectcenter | No comments

In continuing the concepts of digital printing and offset printing, from our last article at http://www.makepapereasy.com/blog/digital-printing-vs-offset-printing, we found a more recent blog post at PrintCEO discussing the market-share of both technologies:

http://printceoblog.com/2008/11/digital-offset-cross-over

 

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ProjectCenter is a single-source service company providing marketing and document solutions to small, medium and large-sized businesses in the U.S. area. ProjectCenter is based in Phoenix, Arizona and its services include graphic design, web design, printing, copying, scanning and mailing. For more information, please call (602) 252-6655 or visit www.makepapereasy.com.

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