Successful printers deliver a full range of services, including graphic design that takes the latest styles and trends into account. To stand out in today's world, modern text needs to have an appropriate, fresh look and feel. Don’t let your Direct mail campaigns miss the opportunity to make a distinctive first impression because of forgettable typ... Read More

Understanding fonts is vital to executing a full-service business model that attracts and keeps profitable customers. Successful printshops have set themselves apart by offering graphic design services to their customers. The heart of graphic design when working with text is font choice. Learn how to put fonts to work to increase your business. Read More

Are common acronyms leaving you or your customers confused? Take “CTP” for example. In publishing, it can stand for either “Computer to Plate” or “Computer to Press” or even “Call the Police”. A less technical but still important topic. Read More

Using kerning, tracking, and leading together can allow designers to make documents easily readable. Wider spacing and extra white space can be used to emphasize small blocks of important text. A quick read on the features of each. Read More

Our designers are changing some company documents from landscape orientation to portrait. Are we going to need different versions of our fonts and images to manage the rotations? Read More

As the technology has improved and accessibility rules have changed, it’s time to take a look at how best to place signatures on your documents. Read More

After spending an entire afternoon designing a document, I was anxious to get my co-worker's opinion on it. But when we viewed the document on his screen, it was a mess. The default substitute fonts his computer chose did not have the same spacing as the fonts I had used. Read on to learn how to solve this challenge. Read More

We need to make changes to some of our electronic forms, but we have not been able to find the source code. We have the object code, is there a way to go from object code back to source code? The programmers don’t want to start from scratch recoding all the forms. So, what are our options? Read More

As you prepare for your holiday festivities, have you realized that in less than 6 weeks we will be starting not only a new year but a new decade? Soon we will be putting 2020 on our documents and forms. Have you made a list of all the documents you need to change? Year-end brings changes to overlays and other files need to be updated too. So how d... Read More

With two months to go, now is the time to start preparing for your 2020 data and forms changes. It’s time to start updating the code that is creating your input/output data files. Review AFP Page Definitions, AFP Form Definitions, Xerox JSL/FSL files. Do you have new information, design elements, or legalese for the new year? 2020 is wider than 201... Read More