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| Digital Printing: A better avenue for quality four color printing by Marlon D. Ludovice For the past few years with the rampant discovery of various electronic devices, the application of photographic processes has expanded greatly, together with the development and enhancements of copiers a new age in printing technique has been introduced. Furthermore, now that the use of personal computers is highly demandable, improvement in quality color printers are now being offered on the market worldwide. Today, digital printing operations amazingly transcend the procedures of reproduction in various printing applications. Now with Digital Imaging Technologies, you can now dramatically produce a four color printing projects in very small quantities, within as fast as an hour time. You might be thinking that with this kind of application another burden will add to your budget…basically true to those businesses with tight budget allotments especially businesses having a small scale of operations. This is quite amazing with digital printing, because now that it has improved so much over for the past five years, the option to have a beautiful, high-quality four color work is now within reach without having to spend as much as you used to. Good news isn’t it. On the practical side, the variation in quality is not enough to affect the appearance of your brochure or any printed piece. To set the topics well, the quality is not as high as a litho press. But if you are thinking of your return on investment (as you always be), the cost savings you'll see with digital printing makes up for the quality limitations. Undoubtedly, because of its outrageous features that allows you with quality printing outputs with a cost saving value, this modern digital printing opens a great opportunity to businesses who has a lower budget reserves. Having a four color printing works gives you high quality photo-like images. For all we know high quality four color offset printing is expensive and can take many days to produce. In sharp comparison, digital printing means you can now afford color for all your communication needs. Its ability to produce short run color also means that you can now customized your printed materials to reach niche markets and target specific audiences. With this full color digital printing, you can now afford to use color for all your promotional needs, because this application eliminates films, plates and expensive proofs needed for offset printing. Now if your business is in a small or medium scale and you wanted to have a competitive printing material for your communication needs, take your worries free. Digital printing offers a fair deal to everyone! About the author: For additional information and comments about the article you may log on to http://www.digitalroom.com |
| Guidelines for Printing Great Photos at Home by Kelly Paal Guidelines for Printing Great Photos at Home Kelly Paal So you have this great digital camera and you’ve taken lots of great photos. Now what Well you could go to a store and have them print your images for you, but isn’t that what you did with film The point of all this great digital technology is that you can print your own photos at home without having to pay someone else to do it. Here are some tips to help you get started: 1. It’ll seem like a lot of money at first but spend the money to get a good printer. Six color at least. Ink jets are wonderful for printing snapshots. You won’t need more than that. Also look around at the computer brands that sell computer packages for digital printing, the printer that they recommend is perfect for printing photos at home. 2. Buy some photo editing software. There are lots of brands out there many of them for pros but you can easily find software under one hundred dollars that will have lots more options than you will ever use. Look for software that has automatic settings so that the computer can automatically color correct, auto focus, brighten, or darken, etc. At least until you learn number 3. 3. Learn your equipment. Take the time play with the settings. Don’t try to print perfect photos right away. Most people with a little time and practice can learn to do basic photo special effects. Give yourself the time to learn. 4. There is one place that you are going to have to spend some money and it’s on paper. You can have a great image but unfortunately you cannot skimp on paper. Get the nice thick glossy paper, it’s worth it. I’ve tried the cheaper paper, which is good for test prints, but you need the high quality stuff for good prints. 5. DPI, dots per inch. Depending on your printer and your software you may be able to print up to 1200 dpi which is probably unnecessary for what you’re doing. For up to a 4 by 6 inch print you only need about 300 dpi. Most people cannot see the difference between a 300 dpi an a 600 dpi at 4 by 6 inches. For 5 by 7 or 8 by 10 you can go up to 600 dpi. These steps will help you on your way to printing great digital photos at home. Remember though make sure that you have fun printing all those memories. FYI Just so that you have a frame of reference, I’m a professional photographer and I have a six color ink jet that I paid less than $300 for and photo editing software that I paid less than $100. I print my 5 by 7 images for shows at 600 dpi.
About The Author Copyright 2004 Kelly Paal Kelly Paal is a Freelance Nature and Landscape Photographer, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Recently she started her own business Kelly Paal Photography www.kellypaalphotography.com. She has an educational background in photography, business, and commercial art. She enjoys applying graphic design and photography principles to her web design. |
| Let Those Digital Photos Out! You Don’t Have To Print Them Yourself by Liz Beresford Let Those Digital Photos Out! You Don’t Have To Print Them Yourself Liz Beresford What have you done with the photos you’ve taken with your digital camera Hands up if they are languishing on your hard drive waiting to be printed. If your hand is up you are not alone. Well I have my hand up too! But I’ve promised myself that two years worth of digital photography will see the light of day before Christmas. The problem is that we expect to do out own digital printing. Its supposed to be a feature. This “feature” puts many people off buying a digital camera in the first place. For one thing its not cheap. First you may need to upgrade your printer, or buy a photo printer. Then there are the running costs, which come as a shock to most new printer owners. The price of inkjets and photo paper doesn’t encourage much trial and error. Having assembled all the equipment we then have to spend some time working out how to use it. Suddenly we have a hobby that we really didn’t want and don’t have time for. We just wanted a nice easy way to take fantastic photos. How much simpler it was to take a roll of film into the photo shop and collect the prints an hour later! Well, here is the good news, you can still take you photos to the photo shop. Not only that but you can delete the duds first. Now that’s an improvement on film. Even better you can email your digital images to an online photo lab and receive the prints back in the post. If you have Microsoft Windows XP you can just click on “Order Prints” in the My Pictures folder and off they go. What could be simpler Ok so what about all the cool stuff you can do with digital images You can do that too, but you don’t have to. The best thing for non experts to do is very little. You can crop and usually adjust the contrast and brightness with a single click using the software that came with your camera. If the software can manage red eye removal too, that is a trick worth learning-its easy. The thing to remember is that digital images are free. Take lots. You can ditch the duds and still have one or two that are good for printing. Then you won’t need to bother with a lot of tricky time consuming editing. Another option, useful if you do not own a computer, is to use one of the self service kiosks that are springing up in urban and tourist centers. These machines allow a little simple editing and you get your prints instantly. Over the next 12 months these are likely to be more widely available. For more information about printing your digital photos check out http://tinyurl.com/4fm3q .
About The Author Liz Beresford owns and operates the web site Digital Cameras and Accessories, which provides information and resources for digital camera buyers, particularly new buyers. You can find the best value digital cameras, equipment and accessories online at the Digital Cameras and Accessories shop. http://www.digital-cameras-and-accessories.com/ |
| Digitalize It! : Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel by Grannys Mettle Digitalize It! : Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel Grannys Mettle Then it was a choice among crayons, paints and palettes for an artist and designer to create art. It was a box of crayons that make one happy designer during his early years of formation. Nowadays, designing has gone to the new age of advanced technology that utilizes computers and programming. As a designer used to handling tangible products such as the ever reliable crayons, computer technology is oftentimes scary and heart palpitating. With all that computer code and HTML tags and styles, its no wonder that most designers break out in cold sweat every time they are forced to put computer code around a text in a Word document to get the layout they want. To help designers and artists alike to make their lives simpler, Adobe offers a complete package that brings designs straight from concept to the online world. On the other hand, Corel has also introduced new programs to help ease the burden of creating works of art with the use of the computer. The new applications ensure that every designers nightmare will be gone, helping him/her to sleep more soundly at night. These programs can help designers utilize simple sites quickly and effectively. The CS Advantage… The new Adobe Creative Suite combines Adobes graphics applications and an efficient workflow that answers the needs of nearly every creative professional, from conceptualization to implementation, from print to Web. Not only do designers get one program at a time; rather, a whole suite of the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive software. It also includes the new Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software to Acrobat Professional. The Creative Suite is Adobes attempt to bind the applications together. Now, Adobes creative products use not only the same graphics engine but also the same type and color-management engines. Files that are created in one application can open easily in others with all their features intact. With a consistent user interface, moving from one application to another is easy. And holding it all together is the new file-management and version-tracking technology Version Cue. The Version Cue lets you create and publish content for print and the Web faster, more easily, and more affordably. Thats why Adobe is introducing this one whole package as "the complete design environment for print and Web publishing". Adobe Photoshop for image editing- easily manage your images with the improved File Browser, quickly share design variations with Layer Comps, and instantly improve contrast with Shadow/Highlight correction; perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images and monitor changes to your image in the Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments. Adobe Illustrator for drawing and vector graphics- with powerful new 3D features, advanced typographical controls, and a host of groundbreaking new design tools, this powerful upgrade from Illustrator 10 delivers the performance you need to make the most of your creativity; import Photoshop image compositions directly to Illustrator- or create drawings in Illustrator and import them directly into Photoshop; create native Adobe Portable Document Format PDF files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software and get fast, consistent print results with features like Fit to Page, Print Preview, and support for Print Settings. Adobe InDesign for page layout and design, and Adobe GoLive for Web layout- import your native vector and bitmap artwork directly into InDesign CS software for sophisticated print layouts or into Adobe GoLive CS software for powerful web pages. With the support of Adobe PDF and XML, you can easily output your pages to both print and the Web. The Corel Advantage… With the introduction of Corel Painter IX, commercial designers, photographers, and professional artists are able to use their natural talents and techniques to create breathtaking works of art. Corel ensures that the new program is a must-have software for creative professionals, whether theyre in film making, game development, commercial design, illustration, photography, or even fine arts. With regards to performance and productivity, the Corel Painter IX boasts of significantly improved speed, new and enhanced Brush Control Palettes, Frames-per-Second Control, and Customizable Shortcut Keys. Professional users can extend their creative possibilities with new enhancements that include Artists Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, improved Digital Watercolor, and Quick Clone. What is exciting about this new software is that the Corel Painter IX is more compatible with other professional technologies, providing enhanced support to Adobe Photoshop, Wacom including the Wacom Intuos3, and Color Management. Whats more, getting started is easier than ever. Corel has provided various support guides to help end-users control their fear of tackling a seemingly intricate world of softwares and programs. Corel has provided a revitalized User Guide, the Painter IX Handbook that includes tutorials from leading creative professionals, access to free training videos, and academic courseware specifically designed for educators. With powerful applications such as the Adobe CS and Corel, artists and designers alike can now combine both worlds of traditional art and sophisticated technology. The intricate tones of traditional art skills and techniques theyve developed during their formation years as artists can be integrated with the incredible benefits that digital media can provide. Every creation can now be worthy of the exaltations and awe reserved for those found in galleries and exhibits. In addition, these art forms are now made at a faster and quicker rate than their original counterparts.
About The Author For questions and comments about the article you may contact Grannys Mettle through The Digital Printing Company Moderator at 310 575 4440 or visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com carmelo@digitalprintingcompany.com |
| Designing Digital Pieces for Digital Presses by Grannys Mettle Designing Digital Pieces for Digital Presses Grannys Mettle Designers value the litheness of digital presses that let them print shorter four-color runs. But choices of paper and preparation of files require special care. This is why designers are taking advantage of the versatility of digital printing more than ever. The ability to print four-color on shorter print runs gives them an imaginative freedom their budget might not have allowed on offset presses. As more digital papers enter the market and more print options become accessible, there are more things to consider. You can choose any paper that the printing company guarantees will work with their digital press for the type of job you want to print. Each digital press manufacturer evaluates and recommends paper selections coated and uncoated for their line of equipment. Some printing companies experiment and are willing to guarantee work done on papers they recommend, in addition to the papers the vendors recommend. One of the most significant tips for designing an efficient, artistic, high-quality, and cost-efficient variable data piece is to bring all parties involved in the project together from the start. You have to discuss first what components of the piece are variable -- is it text, graphics, images, or all three. Also, the number, size, and location of the variable data fields should be clarified. These measures will aid define the production resources required and the type of digital color press and variable data system that can be used. A point to remember when designing for variable date printing is to resist the temptation to over personalize and over design. Do not show off. Each element should have an unyielding purpose underneath the marketing strategy behind the piece. Well designed variable data projects are transparent to the receiver. The goal is not to impress the receiver of the marketing piece with what the technology can do; rather, it is to get the recipient to act and buy something. Most digital presses convert Pantone colors to their CMYK equivalents and print them that way. Some will allow you to specify the conversion formula yourself or tolerate the press operator to do so. Since Pantone-to-CMYK conversion is also a technique used for offset printing, you may have no problem with the print quality of a converted color. The print resolution of digital presses is improving constantly, so you might be more anxious about how well people can read, the type rather than how well the press can image it. Type sizes of 10 and 12 point, the usual size of body text, will be fine. Avoid using type smaller than four points. What resolution to use, in the capture or scan of a photographic image, is one of the most bewildering specifications in the graphic arts because scanning equipment and imaging equipment have evolved over the years Some printers and graphic artists are still using standards that were applicable years ago with older equipment, but are now passé. Combining offset with digital printing sounds like an exact science, and in fact, each application needs to be run like an experiment. Sound scientific procedure calls for controlling all of the variables, and in this print application, its fundamental for consistent success. If youre doing strictly black-and-white variable information, and already have offset equipment available, then combining digital printing with lithography makes a lot of sense.
About The Author For questions and comments about the article you may contact The Digital Printing Company Moderator at 310 575 4440 or visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com carmelo@digitalprintingcompany.com |
| Which is Better: Digital or Offset Printing by Brett Curry Which is Better: Digital or Offset Printing Brett Curry As technology continues to improve, the quality of digital prints also improves. Technology advancements have also made it easier for more and more businesses to enter the printing industry. Good digital printers cost a few thousands dollars…good offset printing presses may cost a few million dollars. For those companies interested in conveying the best possible image at all times, it is important to evaluate which printing process will bring the greatest result. Let’s compare the two processes briefly: Digital Printing: If you want a sample of digital printing, simply look at a piece that you print from your inkjet printer at your home or office. Digital printing uses a series of dots printed on top of the paper that form an image. Offset Printing: Offset printing is done on large presses that use plates and ink. As your piece is printed on an offset press, the ink bleeds into the paper and bonds with it. Because of the plates used, and the way the ink is absorbed by the paper, most people feel that offset printing provides deeper, richer, fuller color saturation than digital printing. While digital printing has certainly improved over the years, most printing experts would agree that it still hasn’t reached the quality level of offset printing.
About The Author Brett Curry is a professional Marketing Consultant and the Marketing Director for Brochures.com. Brochures.com is the home of top quality, full color brochures, business cards, post cards and more at up to 70% off of retail. http://www.brochures.com This article may be reproduced provided that the above bio is listed with the article. marketing@brochures.com |
| Guidelines for Printing Great Photos at Home by Kelly Paal Guidelines for Printing Great Photos at Home Kelly Paal So you have this great digital camera and you’ve taken lots of great photos. Now what Well you could go to a store and have them print your images for you, but isn’t that what you did with film The point of all this great digital technology is that you can print your own photos at home without having to pay someone else to do it. Here are some tips to help you get started: 1. It’ll seem like a lot of money at first but spend the money to get a good printer. Six color at least. Ink jets are wonderful for printing snapshots. You won’t need more than that. Also look around at the computer brands that sell computer packages for digital printing, the printer that they recommend is perfect for printing photos at home. 2. Buy some photo editing software. There are lots of brands out there many of them for pros but you can easily find software under one hundred dollars that will have lots more options than you will ever use. Look for software that has automatic settings so that the computer can automatically color correct, auto focus, brighten, or darken, etc. At least until you learn number 3. 3. Learn your equipment. Take the time play with the settings. Don’t try to print perfect photos right away. Most people with a little time and practice can learn to do basic photo special effects. Give yourself the time to learn. 4. There is one place that you are going to have to spend some money and it’s on paper. You can have a great image but unfortunately you cannot skimp on paper. Get the nice thick glossy paper, it’s worth it. I’ve tried the cheaper paper, which is good for test prints, but you need the high quality stuff for good prints. 5. DPI, dots per inch. Depending on your printer and your software you may be able to print up to 1200 dpi which is probably unnecessary for what you’re doing. For up to a 4 by 6 inch print you only need about 300 dpi. Most people cannot see the difference between a 300 dpi an a 600 dpi at 4 by 6 inches. For 5 by 7 or 8 by 10 you can go up to 600 dpi. These steps will help you on your way to printing great digital photos at home. Remember though make sure that you have fun printing all those memories. FYI Just so that you have a frame of reference, I’m a professional photographer and I have a six color ink jet that I paid less than $300 for and photo editing software that I paid less than $100. I print my 5 by 7 images for shows at 600 dpi.
About The Author Copyright 2004 Kelly Paal Kelly Paal is a Freelance Nature and Landscape Photographer, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Recently she started her own business Kelly Paal Photography www.kellypaalphotography.com. She has an educational background in photography, business, and commercial art. She enjoys applying graphic design and photography principles to her web design. |
| Let Those Digital Photos Out! You Don’t Have To Print Them Yourself by Liz Beresford Let Those Digital Photos Out! You Don’t Have To Print Them Yourself Liz Beresford What have you done with the photos you’ve taken with your digital camera Hands up if they are languishing on your hard drive waiting to be printed. If your hand is up you are not alone. Well I have my hand up too! But I’ve promised myself that two years worth of digital photography will see the light of day before Christmas. The problem is that we expect to do out own digital printing. Its supposed to be a feature. This “feature” puts many people off buying a digital camera in the first place. For one thing its not cheap. First you may need to upgrade your printer, or buy a photo printer. Then there are the running costs, which come as a shock to most new printer owners. The price of inkjets and photo paper doesn’t encourage much trial and error. Having assembled all the equipment we then have to spend some time working out how to use it. Suddenly we have a hobby that we really didn’t want and don’t have time for. We just wanted a nice easy way to take fantastic photos. How much simpler it was to take a roll of film into the photo shop and collect the prints an hour later! Well, here is the good news, you can still take you photos to the photo shop. Not only that but you can delete the duds first. Now that’s an improvement on film. Even better you can email your digital images to an online photo lab and receive the prints back in the post. If you have Microsoft Windows XP you can just click on “Order Prints” in the My Pictures folder and off they go. What could be simpler Ok so what about all the cool stuff you can do with digital images You can do that too, but you don’t have to. The best thing for non experts to do is very little. You can crop and usually adjust the contrast and brightness with a single click using the software that came with your camera. If the software can manage red eye removal too, that is a trick worth learning-its easy. The thing to remember is that digital images are free. Take lots. You can ditch the duds and still have one or two that are good for printing. Then you won’t need to bother with a lot of tricky time consuming editing. Another option, useful if you do not own a computer, is to use one of the self service kiosks that are springing up in urban and tourist centers. These machines allow a little simple editing and you get your prints instantly. Over the next 12 months these are likely to be more widely available. For more information about printing your digital photos check out http://tinyurl.com/4fm3q .
About The Author Liz Beresford owns and operates the web site Digital Cameras and Accessories, which provides information and resources for digital camera buyers, particularly new buyers. You can find the best value digital cameras, equipment and accessories online at the Digital Cameras and Accessories shop. http://www.digital-cameras-and-accessories.com/ |
| Digitalize It! : Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel by Grannys Mettle Digitalize It! : Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel Grannys Mettle Then it was a choice among crayons, paints and palettes for an artist and designer to create art. It was a box of crayons that make one happy designer during his early years of formation. Nowadays, designing has gone to the new age of advanced technology that utilizes computers and programming. As a designer used to handling tangible products such as the ever reliable crayons, computer technology is oftentimes scary and heart palpitating. With all that computer code and HTML tags and styles, its no wonder that most designers break out in cold sweat every time they are forced to put computer code around a text in a Word document to get the layout they want. To help designers and artists alike to make their lives simpler, Adobe offers a complete package that brings designs straight from concept to the online world. On the other hand, Corel has also introduced new programs to help ease the burden of creating works of art with the use of the computer. The new applications ensure that every designers nightmare will be gone, helping him/her to sleep more soundly at night. These programs can help designers utilize simple sites quickly and effectively. The CS Advantage… The new Adobe Creative Suite combines Adobes graphics applications and an efficient workflow that answers the needs of nearly every creative professional, from conceptualization to implementation, from print to Web. Not only do designers get one program at a time; rather, a whole suite of the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive software. It also includes the new Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software to Acrobat Professional. The Creative Suite is Adobes attempt to bind the applications together. Now, Adobes creative products use not only the same graphics engine but also the same type and color-management engines. Files that are created in one application can open easily in others with all their features intact. With a consistent user interface, moving from one application to another is easy. And holding it all together is the new file-management and version-tracking technology Version Cue. The Version Cue lets you create and publish content for print and the Web faster, more easily, and more affordably. Thats why Adobe is introducing this one whole package as "the complete design environment for print and Web publishing". Adobe Photoshop for image editing- easily manage your images with the improved File Browser, quickly share design variations with Layer Comps, and instantly improve contrast with Shadow/Highlight correction; perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images and monitor changes to your image in the Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments. Adobe Illustrator for drawing and vector graphics- with powerful new 3D features, advanced typographical controls, and a host of groundbreaking new design tools, this powerful upgrade from Illustrator 10 delivers the performance you need to make the most of your creativity; import Photoshop image compositions directly to Illustrator- or create drawings in Illustrator and import them directly into Photoshop; create native Adobe Portable Document Format PDF files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software and get fast, consistent print results with features like Fit to Page, Print Preview, and support for Print Settings. Adobe InDesign for page layout and design, and Adobe GoLive for Web layout- import your native vector and bitmap artwork directly into InDesign CS software for sophisticated print layouts or into Adobe GoLive CS software for powerful web pages. With the support of Adobe PDF and XML, you can easily output your pages to both print and the Web. The Corel Advantage… With the introduction of Corel Painter IX, commercial designers, photographers, and professional artists are able to use their natural talents and techniques to create breathtaking works of art. Corel ensures that the new program is a must-have software for creative professionals, whether theyre in film making, game development, commercial design, illustration, photography, or even fine arts. With regards to performance and productivity, the Corel Painter IX boasts of significantly improved speed, new and enhanced Brush Control Palettes, Frames-per-Second Control, and Customizable Shortcut Keys. Professional users can extend their creative possibilities with new enhancements that include Artists Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, improved Digital Watercolor, and Quick Clone. What is exciting about this new software is that the Corel Painter IX is more compatible with other professional technologies, providing enhanced support to Adobe Photoshop, Wacom including the Wacom Intuos3, and Color Management. Whats more, getting started is easier than ever. Corel has provided various support guides to help end-users control their fear of tackling a seemingly intricate world of softwares and programs. Corel has provided a revitalized User Guide, the Painter IX Handbook that includes tutorials from leading creative professionals, access to free training videos, and academic courseware specifically designed for educators. With powerful applications such as the Adobe CS and Corel, artists and designers alike can now combine both worlds of traditional art and sophisticated technology. The intricate tones of traditional art skills and techniques theyve developed during their formation years as artists can be integrated with the incredible benefits that digital media can provide. Every creation can now be worthy of the exaltations and awe reserved for those found in galleries and exhibits. In addition, these art forms are now made at a faster and quicker rate than their original counterparts.
About The Author For questions and comments about the article you may contact Grannys Mettle through The Digital Printing Company Moderator at 310 575 4440 or visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com carmelo@digitalprintingcompany.com |
| Designing Digital Pieces for Digital Presses by Grannys Mettle Designing Digital Pieces for Digital Presses Grannys Mettle Designers value the litheness of digital presses that let them print shorter four-color runs. But choices of paper and preparation of files require special care. This is why designers are taking advantage of the versatility of digital printing more than ever. The ability to print four-color on shorter print runs gives them an imaginative freedom their budget might not have allowed on offset presses. As more digital papers enter the market and more print options become accessible, there are more things to consider. You can choose any paper that the printing company guarantees will work with their digital press for the type of job you want to print. Each digital press manufacturer evaluates and recommends paper selections coated and uncoated for their line of equipment. Some printing companies experiment and are willing to guarantee work done on papers they recommend, in addition to the papers the vendors recommend. One of the most significant tips for designing an efficient, artistic, high-quality, and cost-efficient variable data piece is to bring all parties involved in the project together from the start. You have to discuss first what components of the piece are variable -- is it text, graphics, images, or all three. Also, the number, size, and location of the variable data fields should be clarified. These measures will aid define the production resources required and the type of digital color press and variable data system that can be used. A point to remember when designing for variable date printing is to resist the temptation to over personalize and over design. Do not show off. Each element should have an unyielding purpose underneath the marketing strategy behind the piece. Well designed variable data projects are transparent to the receiver. The goal is not to impress the receiver of the marketing piece with what the technology can do; rather, it is to get the recipient to act and buy something. Most digital presses convert Pantone colors to their CMYK equivalents and print them that way. Some will allow you to specify the conversion formula yourself or tolerate the press operator to do so. Since Pantone-to-CMYK conversion is also a technique used for offset printing, you may have no problem with the print quality of a converted color. The print resolution of digital presses is improving constantly, so you might be more anxious about how well people can read, the type rather than how well the press can image it. Type sizes of 10 and 12 point, the usual size of body text, will be fine. Avoid using type smaller than four points. What resolution to use, in the capture or scan of a photographic image, is one of the most bewildering specifications in the graphic arts because scanning equipment and imaging equipment have evolved over the years Some printers and graphic artists are still using standards that were applicable years ago with older equipment, but are now passé. Combining offset with digital printing sounds like an exact science, and in fact, each application needs to be run like an experiment. Sound scientific procedure calls for controlling all of the variables, and in this print application, its fundamental for consistent success. If youre doing strictly black-and-white variable information, and already have offset equipment available, then combining digital printing with lithography makes a lot of sense.
About The Author For questions and comments about the article you may contact The Digital Printing Company Moderator at 310 575 4440 or visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com carmelo@digitalprintingcompany.com |
| Which is Better: Digital or Offset Printing by Brett Curry Which is Better: Digital or Offset Printing Brett Curry As technology continues to improve, the quality of digital prints also improves. Technology advancements have also made it easier for more and more businesses to enter the printing industry. Good digital printers cost a few thousands dollars…good offset printing presses may cost a few million dollars. For those companies interested in conveying the best possible image at all times, it is important to evaluate which printing process will bring the greatest result. Let’s compare the two processes briefly: Digital Printing: If you want a sample of digital printing, simply look at a piece that you print from your inkjet printer at your home or office. Digital printing uses a series of dots printed on top of the paper that form an image. Offset Printing: Offset printing is done on large presses that use plates and ink. As your piece is printed on an offset press, the ink bleeds into the paper and bonds with it. Because of the plates used, and the way the ink is absorbed by the paper, most people feel that offset printing provides deeper, richer, fuller color saturation than digital printing. While digital printing has certainly improved over the years, most printing experts would agree that it still hasn’t reached the quality level of offset printing.
About The Author Brett Curry is a professional Marketing Consultant and the Marketing Director for Brochures.com. Brochures.com is the home of top quality, full color brochures, business cards, post cards and more at up to 70% off of retail. http://www.brochures.com This article may be reproduced provided that the above bio is listed with the article. marketing@brochures.com |
| HOW TO GO ABOUT DIGITAL VARIABLE DATA PRINTING? by Jinky C. Mesias Digital variable data printing has opened up some of the most creative opportunities in used in the industry of digital printing. It has provided an additional means of printing things. However, enough knowledge is required is you want to have quality outputs. So this article will tackle some tips on how to go about digital variable data printing.In digital variable data printing images are likely to come out differently when printed. The reason for this is that sometimes the resolution of the supplied images may be too low resulting in a not so great image. Nonetheless, there are cases wherein the resolution of the images supplied is too high. In this case the resulting image will tend to have more data on it. Most digital printers are at 600 dpi nevertheless your digital variable data printing provider can give you specific specs for images that you want printed.Another consideration in digital variable printing is the paper stock. The paper stock to be used must adhere on a digital press. Make use of uncoated papers since they print well in digital presses however be careful since uncoated stocks usually amplify the deficiencies of a toner-based system especially in areas of heavy coverage. On the other hand, a glossy stock does not necessarily imply that you’ll be getting a glossy result but don’t dismay because there are digital presses that have gloss-enhancing features.When it comes to printing projects containing large areas of solid black be careful because it won’t be easy to print it on a digital press. Nonetheless, it is still much better to consult your digital variable data printing provider to help you to come up with the formula for creating the shade of black you desire. And also it is important to note that a bleed must always consider the printer’s image area. In addition, in digital variable data printing a product just cannot be trimmed, folded or bound since the layout does not accommodate the binding. That is why print jobs must be set up in such a way that would accommodate the final format as well as the available cutting and also the binding equipment. You must not worry for this is the job for the prepress department of your print shop.Digital variable data printing also involves the used of toners. Toners are known to behave differently from ink. To be sure that the print output is good kindly run a test to see what works best with your design. Another thing to watch out for is the odd word breaks in the variable text. The reason for this is that sometimes the variable text is too long and the text container is too small. To prevent such from happening variable layouts have to be tested with sample data that contains the longest anticipated text string. Also avoid too much variable information on a page because it causes RIP errors. Lastly, be mindful of the fonts you use. Use appropriate fonts for every specific project. For suggestions and comments kindly visitDigital Variable Data Printing About the Author Jinky C. Mesias is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Business Administration Major in Business Management. She is at present an Associate Manager of a Life Insurance Corporation and a freelance writer. |
| HURRAY FOR DIGITAL PRINTING! by Jinky C. Mesias Digital printing is one of technology’s greatest inventions. It has lowered down printing cost significantly that more and more people are changing to digital printing. Digital printers have the speed of 125ppm for black printing jobs and 45ppm for full color printing. This capability of digital printing is very much appropriate to printing manuals and more. Aside from that, digital printing is also great in printing small quantities of print projects. Likewise, digital printing has made the printing process a much easier one since it does not require the used of plates or films. And since it does not use plates and films the run time usually involved in printing is eradicated. The emergence of digital printing has pave way for boundless possibilities that have been impossible in the past. Take for example paperback books which are rather expensive when printed by means of litho printing but with digital printing the same print quality can be achieved at a much affordable price. Digital printing can even go as far as personalizing each printed page through the use of variable digital data within the text. It can also print almost anything starting from small quantities of print projects up to large volume of print jobs. Digital printing has also the capacity to perfectly print indexes and dividers without constraint to the number of texts and images printed on them. And also, digital printing has made reprinting much easier as well as faster and at a much lower price. Digital printing is also great for printing laser sharp images, short run books, printing of various documents, color leaflets, brochures, business cards, invitation cards, personalized training manuals, seminar or conference handouts, posters, display materials, newsletters, bulletins, variable documents like mail shots, price list, catalogues, directories and many more. The list is just endless. For those who are looking for digital printing companies there are many digital printing providers both online and offline. The choice is entirely yours. Although, online digital printing providers are much easier and convenient to reach since all you need is to browse in the internet. Aside from that, most online digital printing providers offer online printing quotes to aid you in knowing the cost of your printing projects before you send your print job to them. There are also friendly online customer representatives that are available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to accommodate all your printing queries. But wait, online digital printing providers also provide free shipping options in which you as the customers have the right to choice where, to whom and when you want your print projects be delivered to you. Isn’t that service deluxe or what?!For suggestions and comments kindly visit 4 Color Digital Printing and Color Poster Printing Services About the Author Jinky C. Mesias is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Business Administration Major in Business Management. She is at present an Associate Manager of a Life Insurance Corporation and a freelance writer. |
| SHOULD YOU PRINT YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOS AT HOME OR USE A PHOTO PRINTING SERVICE? by Valerie Goettsch There are lots of options available for getting your digital photos printed, but which method is the best and most economical choice for you? Let's look at some of the options and the pros and cons of each.PRINTING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOS AT HOMEConvenience and instant gratification are two popular reasons for printing your digital photos at home. Depending on your printer, you can print directly from your camera or from your memory card in most cases. Or if you want to touch up your photos first you can copy them to your computer, use your photo editing software (I like Photoshop Elements 3.0) to enhance your images, and then print right from your graphics program. You don't have to make an extra stop to drop off your photo memory card at the photofinisher or drugstore and then return to pick up your prints, and you save the shipping fees the online photo services charge. However, printing your photos on your home printer may be more expensive than you realized. The per-print price can approach $1 per picture when you factor in the cost of buying a photo printer, high quality photo paper and lots of color ink cartridges. If you print a lot of photos you'll go through ink cartridges and paper rather quickly, which gets expensive, especially if you make mistakes and have to reprint. If you use inexpensive or off-brand paper, you will likely find that your photos may start to fade or discolor within a few months. According to industry experts, if you print at home, use the same brand name paper as your printer manufacturer (i.e. if you have a Canon printer, use Canon photo paper). Your prints will be better quality and last longer. USING AN ONLINE DIGITAL PHOTOFINISHEROnline digital photofinishers like Ofoto and the new PhotoWorks make the process of printing your photos very easy. You can edit your photos either using your own photo editing software or download free software from the online line printing service to crop, fix red-eye, and add special effects or borders to your images. Then simply select the images you want to print, click to upload to the photo site, and you will receive your order, printed on high quality photo paper, in your mailbox in approx. 2-5 days. In addition to prints you can order customized photo calendars, photo cards, photo books, mugs, and other photo items. With some online services, like Shutterfly, you can even try out and order frames for your photos. The downside: you do pay a shipping charge, so you may want to wait and order a number of photos or photo products at one time to make it more economical. Print costs for 4x6 inch photos range from about 19 cents to 29 cents, depending on the company. Wal-Mart.com's prints are inexpensive and the bonus is you can upload your photos to their website and then pick them up at your local store and avoid shipping charges. Photo stores like RitzCamera.com or WolfCamera.com are also good options because you can either upload your photos to their website and pick them up at a local store in as little as an hour, or you can drop off your memory card at the store and pick up your prints later. PRINT YOUR PHOTOS AT THE DRUGSTORE Digital printing is now available at drugstore chains such as Walgreens and Longs. You can bring in your memory stick and use their photo kiosk to crop and edit your images and then print them. The cost is about the same as an online printing service, but you have to stand there at the kiosk and edit/upload your photos. Not something I really want to do, nor do I want to wait in line while someone else finishes their photo order. The good news is these drugstores also offer online photo services so you can upload your photos to their website and you can pick up your prints at their store usually the next day.The other option is you can drop off your memory card or CD at the drugstore's photo department and pick up your prints anywhere from an hour later to a day later, depending on the service selected, just like the "old days" of 35mm film. The print cost is about the same as full service online photo finishers (less the shipping fee). There are frequent sales, so the per-print cost can be relatively low if you hit a sale, but you don't have the option of cropping or enhancing your images unless you edit your photos then burn them to a CD first. My suggestion is to experiment with several methods and find the best one that works for you. Whatever you do, don't just let all those digital photos pile up in your memory card or on your computer, get them printed so you can show them off. Of course you can also share them online with family and friends, but that's another article…. About the Author Valerie Goettsch publishes the digital photography website http://www.digitalphotos101.com featuring reviews of photo editing and album software and digital photo printing services. |
| Digital printing it your way by Florie Lyn Masarate Getting digital prints in the comfort of your own home is not anymore an impossible option now that modern tools and equipments are affordable and accessible to those who want to do it their own way. Although many printing companies are offering affordable and efficient services today, there is still no comparison to the feeling of having done it yourself, without any help from another. Makes the process more enjoyable and the result more memorable. Not to mention, having that feeling of being patted in the back. One can go about with digital printing on their own as long as they have the right tools and equipments needed. All that needed to know about is how to go about producing the best prints from their digital photos. Having the highest resolution present in your images will determine its turn out in prints. Oftentimes, the poor quality result of the prints is blamed on the printers being used. No matter how ultra modern your printer might be, it would not produce the perfect result if the photos you have taken are not superior. It all boils down to having the best resolution is having the best prints. Using the right printer is also a factor. You would want a printer that gives good quality print output. It should have at least four color inks to provide a wide range of color combination in the photos. The printer does not have to be a “photo printer” to give quality result. Any inkjet printer would be able to produce quality prints as well as the other kinds. But if you only want to have the best of the best, photo printers it is. They have more inks and have advanced photo features not all printers have. After having the quality image you wanted, the next step would be choosing the paper to print it on. Having the right kind of paper is vital to the photo as this is where it will be printed on. The result of the print will depend on the reaction of the ink to the paper it will be printed on. Good results can best be seen on papers especially designed for photographic images. Plain photocopier papers can give good text results but not images. Matte and glossy photo papers can be used for best result if you are after the fine quality photo printing results. Take all of this and you are guaranteed the best digital prints that look as good as those done in a photo lab. That is, without all the waiting and the hassles encountered. All in the comfort of your own home. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com About the author: Florie Lyn Masarate got her first article printed in the school newsletter in the third grade. Her hobbies include reading any book she can get her hands on. |
| Digital Printing for artworks by kay zetkin Digital printing is continuously on the rise in the world of technology with the modern times. Many businesses and art graphic companies have relied on the use of digital printing. This is a breakthrough which has advanced in the foundation of art with the use of computer and printing devices to create clearly and visibly enormous outputs. It has presented art in a very wide variety and concept. Digital art refers to reconstructing, improving and renewing designs in the computer. It is mainly useful in enhancing designs which appears to be dull and the low-contrast graphics. Digital does not only focus on printing but also in the effect of audio, text, video graphics or any art application. Digital printing covers printing images and photos so a scanner is. It allows scanning images at the same time enhancing, modifying, resizing images with precision and can be printed on paper as well. If images appear to be dark or light, contrast can be adjusted. Different software is used to further enhance the quality of digital printing in digital art. It has made art works easy to manage and manipulate its needs and demands. These software have been very functional to the production of new-age art because well-modified images such as 3D and graphics are incorporated. Application of different colors in designs are printed successfully while maintaining it’s correct shade and format as seen on the computer before printing. Digital printing is mainly applied in applications such as printing advertisements, posters, publishing, business cards and logos. Quality designs in printing can be achieved with good digital designers and artists. They should be able to apply expertise in choosing the right colors and materials such as paper, film, cloth, text design for the various printing works. They should carefully choose the right paper product and substance to maintain accuracy to so as to turn ordinary art works to astonishing prints. Printer properties and setting should also be checked regularly to maintain a good printing status and quality. The use of digital printers varies in different usage. Inkjet printers are best for full-color posters, postcard, black and white photography images and other in-door prints. Inkjet printers are very visible and accurate, fast and truly illuminating while thermal printers are mainly used for the purpose of outdoor printing. It covers printing full-color logos and vehicle graphics. Digital printing in the field of art has made designs and prints more presentable and reliable for use. It has marked a change in technology bringing out a breakthrough and challenge in digital printing. So to keep up your printing outputs in the desired shade always check your printer and use it properly. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.graphicdesignsunlimited.com About the author: Kay Zetkin discovered the pleasure of writing through her daily journals as a teen-ager. Writing in it helped sort out her thoughts, relieve her feelings and record what she observes of the world. For her, writing is an effective tool to express your viewpoints... To write is already to choose, thus, writing should be done along with a critical mind and a caring soul. She hopes to become more professional, skilled and mature in her craft. |
| Digital printing makes it reliable by Karen Nodalo Digital printing has been greatly in the line for printing today. Business companies and most advertising companies are switching to go digital with their prints. Professionals and creative designers think that going digital brings them more advantage and it makes helps in keeping up the name of the company they are promoting. It is true that digital printing has brought numerous advantages to them. With digital printing, a company can adjust to the newest changes in the environment. Technology has founded great opportunities to provide companies and the customers as well. Digital printing makes work easier, faster, and reliable and goes for a cheaper price. In the market selling today, most marketing companies have involved in digitally making their layouts and settings. Digital printing has involved much in the press and media. What really is Digital Printing? it is a new method of translating printing methods to the computer. Images and texts are being edited and drawn with the aid of software which enhances the images and text for easy layout. Many people say that digital printing is advantageous rather than following the old method of printing. It saves time and effort. And it makes printing less expensive. Digital printing requires no prepress methods or making plates or templates for printing. You only need a computer and a printer and your layout is done in no time. For some files which are available or some images which are not saved into the computer, it can be saved in the computer through the process of scanning. The image now is then translated into the computer and once it is edited, it can be easily printed on paper. For some images which have low resolution, the computer can make and edit it with a higher resolution. Digital printing uses a special kind of printer. It uses inkjet printers for the production. Inkjets perform the role of printing beautifully and accurately even the smallest part of the image. It is precise because tiny ink drops are spread through the print surface and covers the right colors. It spreads evenly bringing out outrageous stunning colors which are clearly visible as seen in the computer screen before printing. When talking about production, digital printing has made it fast. Multiple prints can now be produced in a quicker time and deadline. Most business establishments and companies have switched to this kind of method because of the fast production and assurance digital printing offers. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com About the author: Karen Nodalo came across writing when she was about 11. The whole craze for writing started when she first wrote her diary during elementary years. After school, she would write in it first before doing homework. She finds it cool and until now she still keeps one. |
| Digital Printing vs. the Traditional method in photography by kay zetkin For the past years our technology has been continuously evolving and it has completely improved graphics, artworks and printing. This new breakthrough in technology has made printing affordable and easy to use. Printings for photographers have been made very easy and consultative. More photographers have switched from the old style to the modern enlarged printing with the digital use of inkjet. Before photographers used to go through the process of scanning of the negatives from the pictures they have taken while the modern use of digital cameras are now taking it into effect to make perfect digital shots. This is the very reason more photographers have been switching to the digital age. Digital image printing is developed in corresponding softwares like PhotoShop, CorelDraw and may other softwares. But among them all, Photoshop is the commonly used software application to meet the standard and demands of clearer and precise digital prints. So it is now difficult for photographers to sell out the equipments they used in the darkroom. With the growth of printing technology, there are also issues on the rise whether digital printing compared to the old way of printing is useful and lasting. Some have been pondering over that question. They also ask if digital printing will contain the same level like that of the traditional image outputs. For other critiques, they said printing in inkjet is printing sort of an imitation for the original because they are being printed with the use of ink while the old style contained natural mixture for photography purposes. But even with the advancement in digital photo printing, still others appreciate the old way of printing. The issue of this digital printing has started when they began questioning if inkjet prints will give a long-lasting effect as that of emulsion printouts. They have questioned if inkjet prints will endure the exposure longer and still maintain its quality. But some have quite proven that the traditional prints have not lasted that long and have slowly been fading in time and also with the belief that there really will be no image to withstand a long period of time. Since the enhancement in digital technology is ever growing, questions and issues regarding its performance have been lessened for it has played its role. Inkjet prints have contributed much to giving an eventual effect in the uniqueness of images. The printing of inkjets have divided tiny dots into the paper making it appear more realistic and attraction. This is just to say that these new printing technology has done their own way and part to the creativeness and finesse considering their own defined artworks. The acceptance of inkjet prints has been very unpredictable. In some exhibit and art galleries, they allow the inkjet prints for their designs, but some ignore them. Some designers would still prefer the traditional emulsion prints to be part of their artworks. For those who rely on the digital printing, they rather use it for long and not switch back to the old method. It has been found out that in time, when digital printing will continue its rise in the technology, many will be clinging and will switch on to it. The use of digital printing requires refinement with art skills and a little extra effort as that of the traditional method of printing. Accuracy and preciseness should be followed and maintained. To enhance printing abilities, the aid of Photoshop learning is very useful. It has been found out that the use of application of digital printing has made enlarging of prints and images easily which traditional printing cannot perform. Dealing with the newest trend in the new technology of printing has been very time consuming and produce outputs faster but still these issues cannot be overcome easily. But no matter how these issues arise, it is still up to you to make a pick whether to rely and stay in the old darkroom method or advance your way through. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.graphicdesignsunlimited.com About the author: Kay Zetkin discovered the pleasure of writing through her daily journals as a teen-ager. Writing in it helped sort out her thoughts, relieve her feelings and record what she observes of the world. For her, writing is an effective tool to express your viewpoints... To write is already to choose, thus, writing should be done along with a critical mind and a caring soul. She hopes to become more professional, skilled and mature in her craft. |
| Direct-To-Plate Printing versus Digital Printing by Florie Lyn Masarate Direct-to-plate and digital printing have been used by people for a long time now in printing low quantity but full color printing jobs. This full color but low quantity type of prints are the ones done in CMYK. Since many printing companies have quotas in thee print jobs that they cater to, these types of printing have become most useful for those works that fell below the required quantity. These types of printing are created to do just that. What is the difference between these two? Direct-to-plate printing is also known as the computer-to-plate printing. This printing does just that, from the computer directly to the plate. In the traditional printing, film is produced to the image setter and then to a metal printing plate. The plate then goes on to the press and used to make the printed material. In direct-to-plate printing, the printing plate comes directly from the computer file which does not anymore utilize the use of a film. The production of films has been known to cost a lot money and consumes time even in the printing of small quantities only. That is why this type of printing became popular especially for those who want to save time and money in producing low quantity projects. The only weakness direct-to-plate printing has is that in not using films while processing prints, you cannot anymore check or proof-read these prints before printing. You can only get a digital proof that is close to that of the film proof but not exactly of the same kind. Digital printing is considered as closer to color photocopying than to printing. In digital printing, the prints are made directly from the computer file without using films or plates. This method is best useful in printing lower quantities and customized prints compared to those of the direct-to-plate printing. As with the first type of printing, this can only print in CMYK files. Just like in photocopying, you get to pay the same price for the same quantity. Digital printing is the most effective way in having quality prints in the most affordable way. This printing style can even give photocopying a stiff competition in getting it in colors. There are more ways of full color printing now that is best capable to the kind and the need that people have in printing. With these technologies, printing is made more affordable and easier to do. It is now up to the people to decide which is best suitable for their printing needs. They only have to pick their choice. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com About the author: The author got the flair for reading and writing when she received a subscription of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She got her first article published on that same newsletter in the third grade. |
| How to get the picture-perfect photo by Florie Lyn Masarate A photograph is an image or representation created by collecting and focusing reflected electromagnetic radiation; the most common are those created by reflected visible wavelengths, producing permanent records of what the human eye can see. That is the meaning of photograph in technical terms. Photographs are frozen memories of time that people wanted to keep and treasure maybe even for a lifetime. They only want the best quality pictures that they can get in order to remember moments passed. With modern inventions now at everyone’s disposal, photographs are made perfect. Some old photos are even enhanced to appear almost brand new. Not only that printing of these photos have evolved from films to ones straight from a computer. Having the right tools in making all this possible is very vital to attain the required photo that people wanted. It is said that the cameras that should be used in photo taking should be based on the subject matter itself. If one wants a panoramic shot, choosing the right camera that caters to this type of shot is the thing to do. There are cameras that give a sharp look to photos. Details are more pronounced and photos can be magnified to twice its size without affecting its quality. An example of this is the Hasselblad XPan camera. This type should be able to serve people on that purpose. Another thing to consider is the scanning process of the photos. This is almost critical because it will directly affect the outcome you wish to acquire. It is known that scanning takes a lot of time and money, so it should be very wise indeed to have it done right on the first attempt than have lots of errors and trials while doing so. With digital printing, this task is made easy. Time and money is saved in doing it perfect from the beginning. Finally, the right printer and paper should be able to do the final job. Doing the photo printing yourself would mean having initial knowledge and expertise on these things. Seminars, trainings and consultations are available for these would-be experts can help them in getting to their goals. Experience and expertise combined as in assurance in itself. If this does not work, there are many printing companies that are experts on these things that can do the work. Costs are not a hindrance because they made affordable nowadays. The proper tools and equipments they have would definitely mean good results. Photo printing in this age is not anymore an ordeal that people have to go through to get what they wanted in photos. Nowadays, it is just a matter of having the proper tools and the proper help. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.losangelesprintingservice.com About the author: Florie Lyn Masarate got her first article printed in the school newsletter in the third grade. Her hobbies include reading any book she can get her hands on. |
| Printing is not just printing by Karen Nodalo The new age of printing is piling up in the modern technology. The wide application is seen everywhere and nobody can say it hasn’t been useful. Like everyday routines, printed materials, signs, posters and billboards are seen all over places and buildings. This has been a pretty advantage for some who are into campaign of their own products. Think of how they will be able to provide themselves with posters and banners which are evident and convincing if it wasn’t for digital printing? Competition is now at the peak so printing pays off with it. Cards for example are useless and dull if it was printed the ordinary and old way. If you will be handed with a sample card from someone you knew or barely knew, would you appreciate it if the design has no bit of taste after all? For sure you will leave it elsewhere and not consider it as something important and inviting. But if you received a card which has good prints and paper quality, guess you wouldn’t just be putting it immediately on your pockets. You will surely be tempted of reading it and figuring out the quality. Color printing and digital printing has been proven to have increased the sales and production which is seemingly high. Value is important. It does not necessarily mean printing is not just printing. Printing is about capturing the people’s attention and sourcing out messages information. To have one done effectively, change in your old system can be advanced with the new and finest method of digital printing. Don’t be left behind with the other company’s standards. In a competitive industry, name is all that counts and it is the essential part of it all. Shifting to the modern age will probably offer you with higher opportunities. Equipping your business with the standard printing strategy will definitely count one way and all the other. Technology in prints is uncontrollable and you need to get in line. Printing is about capturing the eyes and minds of the people by feeding them with the right color and design. Richer color effects are ratifying and inviting. Choosing the most acceptable colors for your users is the effective most possible way. Say for children, think of how they get attracted with cartoons and colorful 3D animation? It stays and renders in their minds which makes them easy to remember and classify. So throw away those second thoughts. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.uprinting.com About the author: Karen Nodalo came across writing when she was about 11. The whole craze for writing started when she first wrote her diary during elementary years. After school, she would write in it first before doing homework. She finds it cool and until now she still keeps one. |
| Printing points to ponder on by Karen Nodalo Digital printing is highly on the rise and still keeps on printing better. Many people and marketing companies have piled up into printing companies for their campaign strategies because it has been proven to their increase of sales. That is quite a tough job for digital companies but with the aid of the inkjet printers, what is a deadly deadline to them? Inkjet printers have marked their performance with multiple and outrageous prints. In a day, hundreds and more prints are just in a matter of minutes and hours. But inkjet printers have been less expensive and that is something unusual. You can now even have inkjet printers right at your home and print your fantasies all the way. There are some tips on how to keep your printing on the right expense. First, if you are printing at home or at the office, you can set your printing preferences to the economical or the grayscale option. With this kind of setting, you are sure you aren’t wasting a single drop and you can print hundreds of pages which compares to a few pages in the standard and presentation mode. This will save your inks especially the colored ink which is obviously very expensive and hard to purchase. You can use your colored ink in printing documented prints and presentations. Selecting printers with two cartridges saves you from replacing your inks once in a while. You will notice your inks will stay longer and manageable. Choosing a printer with a brand name is worthwhile. It will save you from some printer disorders and it is proven to survive for a long time of printing. When choosing a cartridge for your printer, make sure it matches the quality and is compatible with your printer. Refill kits are helpful and will save you from buying cartridge which is very expensive. This is a good way to recover or reuse without spending a lot. Cartridges are known to be not that friendly to the budget so taking extra care and maintenance should be observed. If your cartridge fails, there would be slight chances to recover it so the only remedy is to change it. If you wish to buy a cartridge, make sure you are buying from the right printing company. You can purchase your inks and cartridges online. It may cost a little charge of shipping but you are sure you get to pay for what you get with warranty. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.losangelesprintingservice.com About the author: Karen Nodalo came across writing when she was about 11. The whole craze for writing started when she first wrote her diary during elementary years. After school, she would write in it first before doing homework. She finds it cool and until now she still keeps one. |
| Printing speeds up everything by Karen Nodalo If you are in a printing company and you have piled customers on the rush, of course you wouldn’t want to tell them to wait or run into other printing presses for their prints. This will be not good for your reputation. Thanks to the new printers, printing jobs no matter how large and outsized, they can be printed on time. Sometimes deadline can be very deadly and impossible to produce but with the new trend in printing, it’s never really that hard. Printing the impossible can be possible. This has been a breakthrough in printing since printing companies have been competently evolving and making their own standard in the modern technology. For some people, they will usually think that printing is very costly and used for professional use only. That thinking is wrong. As long as it counts with the likes of printing, it can be suitable. But of course it still limits with the print. If you want to produce prints at a large number, ask you printing company to do it but if you will print only a few, guess that wouldn’t be really a burden to you. Modern technology has resolved the problem in poor printing. When you see outputs of prints with the use of digital and inkjet printers, you will be amazed of the colors. It catches every little drop of ink in the right place with stunning colors. To ensure great prints, you need to have the right materials and inks are important as well as the papers. Paper quality is helpful in producing great prints. It really goes along with managing prints evenly. Since digital printing can print so many prints in no time, you definitely need a big source of paper. Digital printing speeds up printing and is still growing with technology. Thanks to the makers of the new-age printers, printing has ever been reliable. Meeting the deadliest deadline will never be impossible plus work is at its best output! You get to satisfy the needs of your customers plus earn points in keeping your business name high. At least now business companies will not be frightened of keeping in line and standard with their customers. They will also comply with what they call print that is in demand. So if you want to have your prints done, don’t have the second thought of printing it digitally. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.uprinting.com About the author: Karen Nodalo came across writing when she was about 11. The whole craze for writing started when she first wrote her diary during elementary years. After school, she would write in it first before doing homework. She finds it cool and until now she still keeps one. |
| Shifting to Digital by Florie Lyn Masarate If you ever get to see photos that were not done digitally, you would begin to wonder why it isn’t so. With digital cameras now being used everyday, photography has been taken to another level. Digital cameras have just begun its reign in the printing industry for some years. But digital has been used in the printing industry for quite sometime. Many processing laboratories have been printing digitally, especially for printing material needs. Mass production of printing plates that are needed for books, magazines and other printed materials went digital years ago. Smaller publications have also seen the need for this digital printing as a source of less expensive but quality printing that they needed for their business. With digital becoming most successful for businesses, the traditional method of printing has been totally replaced. There may be others still using this system, but the numbers are low compared to those that are printing digitally. Photographers have also seen the advantages of what digital printing can make. Those that make use of films are fast turning to digital methods to make prints from their negatives and transparencies. The availability of affordable printers paved the way for these photographers to take home their work and do the process themselves. With the many available sources of knowledge going about digital printing in the internet, the process is made easy. Going about with digital printing themselves gives them the satisfaction of getting the print that they want. Using their own styles and techniques, they can now make masterpieces out of their photos. For some who do not have the required technology needed for printing at home, they turn to the many printing companies that offer affordable and fast services. Of course, using all the technologies that is digital. Gone are the times when only a few people and large businesses can afford the services of these printers. With more and more competitions springing out doing digital printing, the prices are the ones being taken to consideration in order to get more clients interested. Lowering the prices in digital printing does not lessen the quality you will get in printing. The theme is the same for all; quality printing at affordable prices. Why shift to digital? Because with digital you can be assured of producing the best printing you could never have imagined possible. Not only that, you can get the amount and volume you want with less time and money spent. What more can you ask for? For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com
About The Author Florie Lyn Masarate got the flair for reading and writing when she received a subscription of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She got her first article published on that same newsletter in the third grade. karen@rushprintingservices.com |
| SPEEDY PRINTING by Florie Lyn Masarate Consider the situation; you have to meet a quota on the number of pages in order to make it to a given deadline. And all you have is this printer that is like a beat-up old truck making its way down the street. Of course, it is exaggerating way too much but then there used to be a time like that. The money spent is another consideration. The outcome: Late for the deadline with a below quota output and definitely broke. Seeing the printed copies did not help either. These are just some of the problems people encounter whether in the office or in a business setting. These are the everyday obstacle that a person has to go through in order to get printed materials done. It would have been worth it if the outcome to all these troubles were good quality but that was not the case. Thanks to brilliant minds and modern technologies, people can now print directly, skipping over the film. Getting more copies in no time. And reducing the costs in half. That’s not all. You get top quality printed materials. And guess what else? You get to meet your deadline. With the invention of new digital technologies, people’s time and resources are maximized and reduced. Printers that have been developed produce more copies, not just ordinary copies, but top quality prints. With the use of brilliant colors and image enhancers, printed materials can only be described as the finest of its kind. Even photocopiers have been modified to produce copies that looked like the original ones. These printers shorten the time it takes for prints to be produced. Films do not need to be developed anymore as films are skipped to go directly to printing. Reducing time and saving a lot of money by doing so. As a result of this, one gets top quality print jobs that can only be described as brilliant. It would be like an additional bonus considering the low price, the fast and efficient work and less time consumed. The demand for digital printing will surely soar as people become aware of the benefits that they will get from this. It would surely make up for the time when one has to go through obstacles to acquire the perfect published materials they intended to have. The next time you need a printing job, business or otherwise, be practical and go digital. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com About the author: Florie Lyn Masarate got her first article printed in the school newsletter in the third grade. Her hobbies include reading any book she can get her hands on. |
| What printing can do for you by Karen Nodalo Poster printing would definitely be the first choice in advertising. It easily catches the eye of the customers making them look into the poster and the design. What would your impression be if you passed by a big poster in the streets or anywhere you find one? For sure, if you get pleased with the structure and design, it will remain in your mind and make you curious about the information it brings out. The most essential part of printing covers that role. To make prints that is catchy and informative. In most commercial business organizations, they have switched to making their posters printed digitally. It has brought them different advantages which are highly sensible in keeping high with their production. Who said posters are made for advertising only? Posters can play the role of giving out information to the people. Signs and warnings are one of them. When you get in a strange place, you will see billboards and signs all over. At least you know how to read because if you don’t, no matter how pretty your posters and signs will look like, it will be of no use at all. Posters before were printed in small formats just like the size of bond papers and mind you, they were printed the old way like into big rooms and printing devices that are old. Prints were never really accurate then. Sometimes, prints have spilled on other pages or parts of the paper making it look messy. Those things were common because the printing method is not as accurate as the newest trend in printing which is the digital printing which makes use of inkjet printers. Inkjet printers perform stunningly perfect and clear. Images and colors are captured brightly with gorgeous effects. So the digital age’s proofs are the big posters you see in the streets which are captivating. Some of it are banners, presentations and signs displayed everywhere. Signs are seen all over places. Warning on streets about prone accident areas are products of posters. Although these posters need not too much designing and coloring effect, it still pays off. Sometimes, even if you don’t care to read about it again the next time, it is engraved in your mind and the colors give you a fresh look. Some may not see the effect that printing brings but they never really know how those prints have helped them in the simplest way. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.uprinting.com About the author: Karen Nodalo came across writing when she was about 11. The whole craze for writing started when she first wrote her diary during elementary years. After school, she would write in it first before doing homework. She finds it cool and until now she still keeps one. |
| Designing Digital Pieces for Digital Presses by Granny's Mettle Designers value the litheness of digital presses that let them print shorter four-color runs. But choices of paper and preparation of files require special care. This is why designers are taking advantage of the versatility of digital printing more than ever. The ability to print four-color on shorter print runs gives them an imaginative freedom their budget might not have allowed on offset presses. As more digital papers enter the market and more print options become accessible, there are more things to consider. You can choose any paper that the printing company guarantees will work with their digital press for the type of job you want to print. Each digital press manufacturer evaluates and recommends paper selections (coated and uncoated) for their line of equipment. Some printing companies experiment and are willing to guarantee work done on papers they recommend, in addition to the papers the vendors recommend. One of the most significant tips for designing an efficient, artistic, high-quality, and cost-efficient variable data piece is to bring all parties involved in the project together from the start. You have to discuss first what components of the piece are variable -- is it text, graphics, images, or all three. Also, the number, size, and location of the variable data fields should be clarified. These measures will aid define the production resources required and the type of digital color press and variable data system that can be used.A point to remember when designing for variable date printing is to resist the temptation to over personalize and over design. Do not show off. Each element should have an unyielding purpose underneath the marketing strategy behind the piece. Well designed variable data projects are transparent to the receiver. The goal is not to impress the receiver of the marketing piece with what the technology can do; rather, it is to get the recipient to act and buy something. Most digital presses convert Pantone colors to their CMYK equivalents and print them that way. Some will allow you to specify the conversion formula yourself or tolerate the press operator to do so. Since Pantone-to-CMYK conversion is also a technique used for offset printing, you may have no problem with the print quality of a converted color. The print resolution of digital presses is improving constantly, so you might be more anxious about how well people can read, the type rather than how well the press can image it. Type sizes of 10 and 12 point, the usual size of body text, will be fine. Avoid using type smaller than four points. What resolution to use, in the capture or scan of a photographic image, is one of the most bewildering specifications in the graphic arts because scanning equipment and imaging equipment have evolved over the years? Some printers and graphic artists are still using standards that were applicable years ago with older equipment, but are now passé. Combining offset with digital printing sounds like an exact science, and in fact, each application needs to be run like an experiment. Sound scientific procedure calls for controlling all of the variables, and in this print application, it's fundamental for consistent success. If you're doing strictly black-and-white variable information, and already have offset equipment available, then combining digital printing with lithography makes a lot of sense.This composition was provided by a trusted digital printing company to facilitate the propagation of new digital solutions information. ABOUT THE AUTHOR For questions and comments about the article you may contact The Digital Printing Company Moderator at 310 575 4440 or visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com |
| Digitalize It! : (Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel) by Granny's Mettle Then it was a choice among crayons, paints and palettes for an artist and designer to create art. It was a box of crayons that make one happy designer during his early years of formation. Nowadays, designing has gone to the new age of advanced technology that utilizes computers and programming. As a designer used to handling tangible products such as the ever reliable crayons, computer technology is oftentimes scary and heart palpitating. With all that computer code and HTML tags and styles, it's no wonder that most designers break out in cold sweat every time they are forced to put computer code around a text in a Word document to get the layout they want. To help designers and artists alike to make their lives simpler, Adobe offers a complete package that brings designs straight from concept to the online world. On the other hand, Corel has also introduced new programs to help ease the burden of creating works of art with the use of the computer. The new applications ensure that every designer's nightmare will be gone, helping him/her to sleep more soundly at night. These programs can help designers utilize simple sites quickly and effectively.The CS Advantage…The new Adobe Creative Suite combines Adobe's graphics applications and an efficient workflow that answers the needs of nearly every creative professional, from conceptualization to implementation, from print to Web. Not only do designers get one program at a time; rather, a whole suite of the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive software. It also includes the new Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software to Acrobat Professional. The Creative Suite is Adobe's attempt to bind the applications together. Now, Adobe's creative products use not only the same graphics engine but also the same type and color-management engines. Files that are created in one application can open easily in others with all their features intact. With a consistent user interface, moving from one application to another is easy. And holding it all together is the new file-management and version-tracking technology Version Cue. The Version Cue lets you create and publish content for print and the Web faster, more easily, and more affordably. That's why Adobe is introducing this one whole package as "the complete design environment for print and Web publishing".Adobe Photoshop for image editing- easily manage your images with the improved File Browser, quickly share design variations with Layer Comps, and instantly improve contrast with Shadow/Highlight correction; perform more precise editing and retouching with expanded support for 16-bit images and monitor changes to your image in the Histogram palette, which dynamically updates as you make adjustments.Adobe Illustrator for drawing and vector graphics- with powerful new 3D features, advanced typographical controls, and a host of groundbreaking new design tools, this powerful upgrade from Illustrator 10 delivers the performance you need to make the most of your creativity; import Photoshop image compositions directly to Illustrator- or create drawings in Illustrator and import them directly into Photoshop; create native Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files using settings and options consistent with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software and get fast, consistent print results with features like Fit to Page, Print Preview, and support for Print Settings. Adobe InDesign for page layout and design, and Adobe GoLive for Web layout- import your native vector and bitmap artwork directly into InDesign CS software for sophisticated print layouts or into Adobe GoLive CS software for powerful web pages. With the support of Adobe PDF and XML, you can easily output your pages to both print and the Web.The Corel Advantage…With the introduction of Corel Painter IX, commercial designers, photographers, and professional artists are able to use their natural talents and techniques to create breathtaking works of art. Corel ensures that the new program is a must-have software for creative professionals, whether they're in film making, game development, commercial design, illustration, photography, or even fine arts.With regards to performance and productivity, the Corel Painter IX boasts of significantly improved speed, new and enhanced Brush Control Palettes, Frames-per-Second Control, and Customizable Shortcut Keys. Professional users can extend their creative possibilities with new enhancements that include Artists' Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, improved Digital Watercolor, and Quick Clone. What is exciting about this new software is that the Corel Painter IX is more compatible with other professional technologies, providing enhanced support to Adobe Photoshop, Wacom (including the Wacom Intuos3), and Color Management. What's more, getting started is easier than ever. Corel has provided various support guides to help end-users control their fear of tackling a seemingly intricate world of softwares and programs. Corel has provided a revitalized User Guide, the Painter IX Handbook that includes tutorials from leading creative professionals, access to free training videos, and academic courseware specifically designed for educators.With powerful applications such as the Adobe CS and Corel, artists and designers alike can now combine both worlds of traditional art and sophisticated technology. The intricate tones of traditional art skills and techniques they've developed during their formation years as artists can be integrated with the incredible benefits that digital media can provide. Every creation can now be worthy of the exaltations and awe reserved for those found in galleries and exhibits. In addition, these art forms are now made at a faster and quicker rate than their original counterparts. This composition was provided by a trusted digital printing company to facilitate the propagation of new digital solutions information. ABOUT THE AUTHOR For questions and comments about the article you may contact The Digital Printing Company Moderator at 310 575 4440 or visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com |
| Digital printing it your way by Florie Lyn Masarate Getting digital prints in the comfort of your own home is not anymore an impossible option now that modern tools and equipments are affordable and accessible to those who want to do it their own way. Although many printing companies are offering affordable and efficient services today, there is still no comparison to the feeling of having done it yourself, without any help from another. Makes the process more enjoyable and the result more memorable. Not to mention, having that feeling of being patted in the back. One can go about with digital printing on their own as long as they have the right tools and equipments needed. All that needed to know about is how to go about producing the best prints from their digital photos. Having the highest resolution present in your images will determine its turn out in prints. Oftentimes, the poor quality result of the prints is blamed on the printers being used. No matter how ultra modern your printer might be, it would not produce the perfect result if the photos you have taken are not superior. It all boils down to having the best resolution is having the best prints. Using the right printer is also a factor. You would want a printer that gives good quality print output. It should have at least four color inks to provide a wide range of color combination in the photos. The printer does not have to be a “photo printer” to give quality result. Any inkjet printer would be able to produce quality prints as well as the other kinds. But if you only want to have the best of the best, photo printers it is. They have more inks and have advanced photo features not all printers have. After having the quality image you wanted, the next step would be choosing the paper to print it on. Having the right kind of paper is vital to the photo as this is where it will be printed on. The result of the print will depend on the reaction of the ink to the paper it will be printed on. Good results can best be seen on papers especially designed for photographic images. Plain photocopier papers can give good text results but not images. Matte and glossy photo papers can be used for best result if you are after the fine quality photo printing results. Take all of this and you are guaranteed the best digital prints that look as good as those done in a photo lab. That is, without all the waiting and the hassles encountered. All in the comfort of your own home. For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.digitalprintingcompany.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Florie Lyn Masarate got her first article printed in the school newsletter in the third grade. Her hobbies include reading any book she can get her hands on. |
| Digital Color Printing for Professionals by Kristine Llabres It has been 10 years now since digital color printing was introduced in the market that aims to make the lives of people specially the professionals who are working very hard at their respective companies to gain more access with their printing needs. Reality bites that for years before the invention of digital printing professionals find it hard to accomplish their printing materials on time because of lack in time and the hassle that they are experiencing in off set printers. But not anymore! Digital color printing pays a lot of help for those people that are so busy just like the professionals because now they can just send off their digital files from their personal computer, digital camera and many others to a commercial printing service provider that will print the materials for him. If not so, professionals themselves can even print their own printing materials by their own provided that they have a digital printer and they know how.Furthermore, digital printing is just handy and easy to learn that is why even professionals can really do it alone. There are several guides that can be followed easily to print successfully the materials needed using digital color printing. Why is that digital color printing is advantageous for busy professionals? And how does digital color printing works?Here it goes. Digital color printing is very much advantageous though quite expensive but for sure it is of competitive price that professionals can really afford. In order for you to print out the material that you need, you just have to acquire a digital printer and digital files. Bare in mind that it is much convenient than dealing with presses and those conventional ways of printing for it needs a lot of time and effort but with the innovation of technology in printing services and the invention of digital printing, your printing needs just have to possess digital facilities needed. But that will not end there. For a satisfaction guaranteed result appropriate paper and ink will be needed. It pays a significant role in your digital printing process since it will be the end thing that will show off the outcome of the printing. Accurate use of materials in digital printing will definitely make professionals happy and worry free. Digital color printing works just right along with the other necessary stuffs to be followed to attain a successful printing result. After all printing outcome for professionals should always be at its best to increase clients and grow with the business. Definitely, professionals need digital color printing for their printing needs. About the Author For additional information and comments about the article you may log on to http://www.digitalroom.com |
| Digital camera for digital printing by Marlon D. Ludovice The world is going digital and people are crazy bout the hi-tech gadgets available in the market. But significantly paving the way is one of the hottest consumer products of the 21st century - the digital camera. Most people want to capture and store their precious moment forever in a form of pictures. And photography plays an important role in this business.Digital photography has evolved over the past few years into a highly affordable luxury that some could not be without and cannot afford to loose it. If you are new to the world of digital cameras, let Office Shop Direct be your guide to their large array of product specifications. Price ranges are a very big consideration and are mainly based on high-end specifications such as resolution, compression and zoom options. Cutting corners on some of these details will save you in the long run, but you should be sure what you are missing out on before you make that decision.Important Items to Keep in Mind about Digital Camera Technology:Interpolation is a method in which a camera will fill in the color holes in the pixels of a picture by estimating color blends. While this can improve resolution, it will also reduce the sharpness and contrast of a picture. Never get a camera that |