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  How to Decide: 4-color vs. Spot Color

  347 readersBy Nani Paape How do you determine whether four-color process printing will work for your design or project? Here are some tips to help you decide. In four-color process printing, all colors are printed in dots, in the four process-color inks. The four process colors are cyan (C), yellow (Y), magenta (M), and black (K). (Why K?

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  The Reflex Blue Blues

  3140 readersBy Nani Paape Last year, I had two annual reports on press at the same time. One book had heavy black coverage, but dried just fine. The other had heavy blue coverage and took two extra days to dry! On Read more »

• How to Order Window Clings

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• Flexo Plate Digital Open House 2012 a Success

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  Who wants to use white ink?

  1163 readersMohawk Fine Papers Every designer you’ve ever met, that’s who. But until recently, the limitations for printing colors or whites on colored papers led designers to seek alternative design solutions from specialty processes like foil stamping, screen printing or blind embossing. The advent of HP Indigo ElectroInk White has opened up a path where designers once dared

• Flint Group Develops Soft nyloprint Plates

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• Digital Printing 101: UV Coating

  1847 readersIn today’s increasingly competitive and saturated market, your printed marketing materials are a great opportunity to get your customer’s attention. Want to really catch their eye? When you place your next digital printing order, get an ultraviolet coating on your marketing materials. What is UV or Ultra Violet Coating? Ultraviolet coating, or UV coating, is a dramatically

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  The Korte Company Pocket Folder

  5450 readersA pocket folder can have one or both of these jobs: a) to hold materials, and b) to inform. Sometimes they just hold, and sometimes they hold and inform (they can not just inform, otherwise who does the holding?), the latter being the...

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  "Typefaces of the World" Poster

  1410 readersLinked heavily last month, including on our own Quipsologies, Shelby White's "Typefaces of the World" has gone from viral to print in less than a month, courtesy of the quick folks at Scribble on Anything — who also brought us t...