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Using Preflight For Better Color Printing

Using Preflight For Better Color Printing

Here at Color Printing Wholesale, we provide free 1-on-1 technical support, free press-ready proofs and free file checking for your color printing jobs. That means we check for things like image quality, missing fonts, color space conversion (RGB to CMYK), broken image links and other potential problems or issues. However, if you use Quarkxpress or Adobe Indesign or Acrobat, you can save time and possible confusion by running a few checks yourself before you submit a file for color printing.

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Date: 03/09/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
Full Color Printing Options for Artists

Full Color Printing Options for Artists

The majority of our full color printing clients are businesses and marketers, but we do a lot of printing for artists as well. If you’re an artist considering creating either prints of your work or printed materials to promote your work, please read on to learn about the benefits of full color printing as well as the options available to you.

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Date: 03/04/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
Accurate 4 Color Printing Tips – Process Color Finders

Accurate 4 Color Printing Tips – Process Color Finders

When you look at a color on a computer screen, it often looks different than a printed version of the same color. And, unfortunately, no amount of calibrating, adjusting or upgrading of a computer monitor will ever yield a true and accurate representation of what a color will look like when it’s printed using a 4-color printing process.

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Date: 02/20/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
How to Make Greener Full Color Printing Choices

How to Make Greener Full Color Printing Choices

Full color, glossy printing may not be the most environmentally sustainable printing choice available, but that doesn’t mean we have to revert to stamping vegetable ink images on salvaged paper scraps. There are choices that you can make to ensure your next full color printing job is a greener one without sacrificing quality:

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Date: 02/18/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
Color Print Samples

Color Print Samples

If you’re trying out a new color printing company or even just scoping out costs, you should look at more than just specs and prices. Think about it this way, if you were going to spend $700 on a new chair, you’d probably try it out first and make sure it’s a comfortable fit. The same smart buying principles apply to choosing a printer and a paper stock, particularly when it comes to color printing.

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Date: 02/16/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
A Beginner’s Guide to RGB and CMYK

A Beginner’s Guide to RGB and CMYK

RGB and CMYK are two color schemes that a beginner needs to know when you want to go out, do your print and come up with full color printing materials. These two color schemes have very specific functions that you need know. Interchanging these functions will make printing your materials a disaster.

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Date: 09/24/2008 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
The Color Offset Printing Advantage

The Color Offset Printing Advantage

Color offset printing is a printing method that has stood the test of time. Even with the advent of digital technology, this printing method has been the number one option that professional designers and printers turn to when they want to order large amounts of high quality pints.

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Date: 07/23/2008 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
Custom Printing Options: Die Cutting

Custom Printing Options: Die Cutting

Color Printing Wholesale is one of the premium sites that offer different custom printing options that you can choose from. However, I feel that many of these options are still unfamiliar to design newbies. That’s why I’ll dedicate some of my posts to enlighten people on the different things that they can do with their custom prints. Let’s start with this week’s topic, die cutting.

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Date: 07/16/2008 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
What is a Trade Printer?

What is a Trade Printer?

A trade printer is a wholesale printing company that exclusively accepts orders from other printers. They are privately held printers that do not announce nor franchise their operations. They cater mostly to those in the trade or in the distribution business as well as customers who wants their prints in bulk.

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Date: 07/11/2008 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments
The Three Most Underappreciated Printing Services

The Three Most Underappreciated Printing Services

When browsing through the internet, one would see and find the different services offered by printing companies. Services like variable data printing and large format digital printing are now available due to technological advancements. And while these services provide you with great printing options that you can take advantage of, I believe that some useful printing services are being over shadowed by all this brouhaha over being modern and new.

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Date: 07/07/2008 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments