Practical advice about printing, design, and getting the best results from your print jobs.
You have designed a stunning flyer. The background is a beautiful, edge-to-edge photograph. You print it on your office printer, and out it comes with a thin, ugly white border around the edge. You think: "Professional printers can fix this. They can print right to the edge."
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We have all seen it: a large banner or sign where the company logo looks like it was built out of blurry LEGO blocks instead of crisp lines. It’s a common frustration, but it’s rarely a printer error. It is almost always a file error.
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It is the most common heart-stopping moment in design. You spend hours perfecting a brochure on your laptop. The blues are electric, the oranges are vibrant, and the photos look crisp. You send the file to print, and when you get the proof back... it looks different.
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Every day, millions of people open a word processor, click a dropdown menu, and select a number: 10, 11, maybe 12. We know that 12 makes the letters bigger than 10, but rarely do we stop to ask: 12 what?
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