Default blue color prints incorrectly.

Posted by on Sep 25, 2011 in Tips on business cards | 16 comments

Computer’s default blue color never seem to  prints correctly. If you are looking to have professionally printed change your color mode settings to CMYK and set your color values to 70/30/0/0 on your cymk setting. This blue is a medium blue. K value adjusts the darkness of the blue .  This setting should take out any purple tint in the blue.

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Business card printing discounts in Austin area.

Posted by on Sep 8, 2011 in Business card print deals | 31 comments

Austin area customer get extra $10 off business card printing until end of October on all the glossy cards and premium cards. Ask us for the promo code at the time of the card order. Minimum of 250 cards please.

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Use of Microsoft Publisher to design business cards

Posted by on Sep 4, 2011 in business cards design software, Tips on business cards | 59 comments

Save your  Microsoft business card file as PDF.

No printer shop can be responsible for not having a right fonts for the file. So you need to embed the fonts and graphic file into the file so they are all in one  file saving as the PDF file.

More, most printers don’t recognize the Publisher file as the out file type so must save as a PDF.

Here are some of the basic tips on using the Publisher file:

  1. Change to the Designer mode
  2. Set to 8.5 x11, draw card size as 3.625×2.125, on on the top for the front of the card and on the bottom for the back of the cards. Put your card info in these two squares.
  3. Do not set the business cards 8 0r 10 to a sheet. That’ only to print as a laser print. Most professional printing requires only one set up.
  4. Make sure save business card file as 300 dpi resolution in PDF file options.
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