October 19th, 2017
Posted in Logos | Comments Off on Custom Screen Printing: Preparing Art Files for T-Shirts
I got a call from a printer this week saying a file I had submitted hadn’t passed preflight. Given my experience with printing and prepress, I was somewhat chastened, but after a discussion with the custom printing supplier, I went off and did my own research, and I learned something. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 17th, 2017
Posted in Large-Format Printing | Comments Off on Large Format Printing: Thoughts About a Gigantic Standee
My fiancee and I just finished assembling a huge standee for the Transformers franchise. It is called Transformers: The Last Knight. It is huge. No, huge would be an understatement. It took us nine hours to assemble and install. And we may need to go back to another movie theater and assemble a second one. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 10th, 2017
Posted in Digital Printing | 2 Comments »
Out of the blue today a client I hadn’t heard from in over a year emailed me. She had a custom printing project and wanted my help. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 5th, 2017
Posted in Book Printing | Comments Off on Book Printing: An Approach to Designing Infographics
A print book designer colleague of mine had a problem with a graphic last night, so I called her up, and we discussed infographic design at midnight (she’s a freelancer, and she was on deadline). Her design wasn’t working. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 29th, 2017
Posted in Fine Art Printing | Comments Off on Custom Printing: Reproducing Fine Art Prints
Purely by chance today, while waiting while my fiancee had her teeth cleaned and scaled, I found two new potential commercial printing clients.
Both are fine artists. I had commented on a painting on the dentist’s wall, which depicted the very block on which I had lived as a child, and I was told the artist was in the waiting room. I couldn’t help myself. I gushed. The conversation turned from art to custom printing, and to her need for multiple copies of her work. It turns out that she is well known around the world, and that she had received multiple commissions to do murals and paintings over the years. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 25th, 2017
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Anytime you use the words “paper coatings” and “mixing,” you are in the realm of not just commercial printing but chemistry as well. Mixing can cause problems. Chemicals can be incompatible. But a good printer can usually come up with a work-around. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 19th, 2017
Posted in Book Printing | Comments Off on Book Printing: Making a Final Decision on a Book Printer
For about five years, I have been working with a husband and wife publishing team. They produce high-end literary books (usually 5.5” x 8.5” perfect bound), both fiction and poetry. We are on the same page regarding quality. This publishing team wants to sell books to customers who appreciate the tactile nature of a print book, customers who like the feel of the book in their hands. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 14th, 2017
Posted in Standees | Comments Off on Large Format Printing: Creating “One-Off” Standees
My fiancee and I assembled a huge standee this week for the new Murder on the Orient Express movie. Essentially, it’s an exposed view of the interior of a passenger train car containing numerous movie characters. While we were engaged in the six-hour installation, a moviegoer came up to ask about this standee in particular and standees in general. She had an ice cream parlor, and she needed one copy of a standee for her shop. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 6th, 2017
Posted in Box Printing | Comments Off on Custom Printing: Anatomy of a Product Packaging Box
When going through some piles of paper in the house, I came upon an unfolded tea box my fiancee had disassembled. Flat and all misshapen, with tabs jutting out in all directions, it looked like a curiosity to me. After all, I had seen it months before as a three-dimensional solid and as a product, in some ways more real as a box than as a collection of tea bags (since I buy the groceries but don’t drink tea very often). Read the rest of this entry »
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August 28th, 2017
Posted in Digital Printing | Comments Off on Book Printing: Color Shift Problems in the Book Proofs
Sometimes things go horribly wrong. I think there’s nothing worse than “hearing” the exasperation of a loyal client in her email, knowing that a multi-year working relationship is on the line. Read the rest of this entry »
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