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Self Cover refers to a book’s or booklet’s cover. Most covers have a thicker stock, whether it be a hard cover or a paper cover.  Sometimes, a booklet will have a minimal amount of pages, and in this situation a booklet would simply not lay flat if it had a thicker cover. Thus, it would be necessary to have the cover be the same thickness and type of stock as the inside pages, which is conveniently called a Self Cover.

Self Cover can also be recommended for those clients that are wanting to save money. Logically, if the cover of a book or booklet is thicker, it needs to be collated with the inside pages at a later time, resulting in a higher service cost. A Self Cover project can be run at the same time as the inside pages, so long as both are either color or black and white (again, having a difference in color will require the job to be collated because it would be run on two different printers).

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The history of printing goes back to some years, but it has developed very fast in recent years. Along with the advantage of new technology and easy printing, the most important thing is how much is understood about the client and their needs. There are some basic ways to understand clients. It doesn’t matter how beautifully or accurately something is written if the customer’s desire is not fulfilled. So the first thing is to listen to the client carefully. Half of the problems are solved just by listening, as the customer feels that someone cares about their problems. The next thing to do is to answer each and every query about products or services. If there is a suggestion box, they must be read because sometimes clients might suggest improving services.

 

There is one more thing that should be taken into account and that is keeping a watch on the work going on in the company. The working in the company should go on smoothly and the work ethics taken care of properly.  The employees should be easily approachable to the clients so that if there is any complaint about the service or work done, the staff should be easily available. If possible, provide a customer support service well informed and well equipped. The customer support should have an email address, a phone number and the website must have complete information regarding the products and services.

 

Printing is an age-old weapon for businessmen to leave their details with people so that their business spreads some more. This makes people are other firms aware of your business and the various services that you have to offer.

 

When it comes to printing postcards there are two types of printing, one is digital printing and the other is offset printing. Digital printing is quite popular among those who have low budget because prints are made directly from the computer and can only print CMYK images and the whole thing can be said to be of low quality. The only advantage of digital printing is that you can get the cards in very less time but a limited number of copies. If you need them in urgency and have run out of your cards you can easily have them with the help of digital printing.

 

In offset printing inked images are transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. It brings out clear images and print outs but is affordable when the printing is to be done on large scale. Both printing methods are good enough to fulfill your purpose of propagating your business.

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Some clients get put off by being asked about the quantity of their project. It could be that they feel the broker is judging them.

The fact is that quantity determines how a broker (that is to say, a good broker) is going to handle the job in a price competitive manner. Generally speaking, any job under 1000 units will be taken to an iGen printer (a color copier on steroids). Any job between 1,000 and 10,000 units will most likely be taken to an Offset printer (the most typical printing method). Then, any job over 10,000 units will most likely go to a Web printer, that specializes in high quantity and quality.

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“Dirty Jobs” on the Discover Channel had a great episode that included a printing press (June 27, 2006). Although not quite interesting to the regular person, it is a great example of the work involved for those in the marketing industry. It truly helps one to understand all the intricacies of the offset printing business (i.e. setting up machinery, manually mixing colors, running paper through perfectly, etc.), and why spot color work should never and probably will never reduce its market pricing.

We could not find video of this episode online, but if anyone is interested in buying it, here it is: 

http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Channels-Dismantler-Terracotta-Decorator/dp/B000OPVQM2

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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.