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• White Papers- ICC Org June 5, 2010
  ICC White Papers from www.color.org – Excellent. Must read for colour professionals: photographers, digital studios, separators and printers. Fundamentals ICC profiles in a colour reproduction system This paper introduces some of the issues in colour reproduction and discusses how ICC profiles may be used in achieving successful reproductions. Further detail […]
• Printing Handbook- Pocket Pal June 5, 2010
  Editor: Frank Romano Subtitle: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook The 20th edition of Pocket Pal, the authoritative introduction to printing and the graphic arts, is an ideal educational tool for printers, publishers, students, artists, graphic designers, advertisers, paper merchants, paper industry personnel and others associated with visual arts and print […]
• Creating Flawless Files that are Print-Ready June 5, 2010
  Creating Flawless Files that are Print-Ready September 9, 2010 2:00 PM EST $49 for Printing Industries of America Members $99 for Non-Members Printers: Purchase this webinar for your customers, strengthen your relationships, AND get problem-free files! Webinar Overview A recent Printing Industries of America survey showed that 70% of printers state that more […]
• Printing: Wikipedia June 5, 2010
  1 History 1.1 Woodblock printing 1.2 In East Asia 1.3 In Middle East 1.4 In Europe 1.5 Movable type printing 1.6 Rotary printing press 2 Modern printing technology 2.1 Offset press 2.2 Gravure 3 Impact of the invention of printing 3.1 Religious impact 3.2 Social impact 3.3 Environmental impact 4 Comparison of printing methods 5 Digital printing 6 See also 7  […]
• Google Share 71 Percent – April 2010 June 5, 2010
  Experian Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 71.40 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending May 1, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask received 14.96 percent, 9.43 percent and 2.18 percent, respectively. The remaining 78 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 2.03 percent of U.S. searches. Longer […]
• Glossary-Printing June 5, 2010
  A Accordion Fold: A term used for two or more parallel folds on a printed piece, that allow it to open like an accordion. Acrobat: Adobe software that creates and reads files in the PDF Format. Additive Primaries: In Color reproduction, Red, Green and Blue (RGB). When added together in equal parts, these three primaries produce white light [...] […]
• 43 Tips on Green Printing May 25, 2010
  Green Printing Tips Tip #1 – How about a digital job? Tip #2 – How using eco-friendly printing practices while printing a brochure or a book will save me money? Tip #3 – How you make sure everyone knows you’re using green printing practices and it doesn’t stay between you and your printer? Tip #4 – What does FSC [...] […]
• Search Engine Tips and Tricks May 25, 2010
  Having  a hard time finding something online ? Does it seem like you type in your search term but don’t get anywhere near what you’re looking for? Well, here’s a couple of tricks that seem (almost) universal between search engines. Let’s say your’re look for sports cars and all you’re getting is information on baseball and football [...] […]
• Printing Tips-Adobe Acrobat May 25, 2010
  Printing tips — Acrobat and Adobe Reader — Windows and Mac OS What’s covered Print comments Print as image Print multiple pages per sheet Scale page (page scaling) Print PDF file with mixed page sizes Print discontinuous pages Print duplex (double-sided) and staple  Print color as black http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/332/332720.html […]
• Calibrating your monitor: Tips May 10, 2010
  We spend hours in front of our monitors reading and answering email, producing spreadsheets. But when producing colour related files and layouts, we depend on the accuracy of our monitor to render accurately. This is a major problem if our monitors are not calibrated. We will over-correct and cause colour reversals when presenting our files for [...] […]
• 7 SEO Tips May 3, 2010
  Here’s the Shortest Tutorial Ever on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 1) Find keywords. Pick a list of words relevant to your business.  Think about which words are most likely to get people to do what you want them to do (convert into leads) and focus on those words.  Then pick one word (or phrase) to [...] […]
• Designing Mailings May 1, 2010
  Designing effective admail is an art and a science. Canada Post guidelines can be a bit overwhelming, but here is a pdf file that can help make sense of the specs from the design viewpoint. Enjoy. CanadaPostPSaa-e […]
• Money fable April 23, 2010
  Money Monkeys Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their [...] […]
• Sexual Harassment & Discrimination April 20, 2010
  Sexual harassment and discrimination: For employer & employee, as well as steps to prevention. Employers must change and be proactive. […]
• Ruin or Reputation ? April 13, 2010
  “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” ~ Warren Buffet. Every business must manage their reputation because in the end, what else is there? Yes, a business with a great reputation can fail, but it is far more difficult for [...] […]