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Not Just a Number
It seems as though all types of manufacturing are becoming more and more commodity. Do you feel like a number? The printed piece has become more readily available through advancing technologies like the Internet. In turn, it has put pressure on small businesses to adapt and become more creative and specialized. The companies who will rise to the top are the ones who can clearly demonstrate the value of the services and products they bring to the table. More visibility, targeted direct mail pieces, and all the intuitive creativity one can possibly summon is what is needed to catch the attention of potential customers.
How do Printer’s Quote their Print Projects
Calling all fellow printers. Here at DaVinci, we were wondering how it is that you quote and invoice your print projects. What programs do you use, are you satisfied with your method, etc.
DaVinci Graphics T-Shirts!
We sprung for t-shirts and they turned out awesome. Four different colors, blue, light blue, sea foam green, and white. We thank Spikes Trophies for them.
DaVinci Photo Shoot
For the first time ever, DaVinci Graphics is holding a professional photoshoot at the AGLC Play Day 2010 Lacrosse event. We will have a booth set-up where players and family can come and get pictures taken to have professionally shot, printed and shipped. It's our first run at this don't expect everything to go smoothly. We are hoping for the weather to hold up and have planned it well in advance. It's exciting to see DaVinci expanding it's services into more areas than printing and design.
The Future of the Web
Web design and technologies are constantly evolving. They evolve so fast that it’s part of a designers job description to be able to keep up with these new technologies. There are few things things that I would like to see change in the future regarding web design. One, typography techniques need to be expanded. Two, social media needs to become integrated. Three, mobile devices need to be standardized. Finally four, browsers need to realize their full potential. These aren’t commands upon the web industry…
DaVinci Graphics Featured Around the Web
DaVinci Graphics has been featured on three* separate CSS showcased around the web. Check out some of the sites that have deemed DaVinci feature worthy.
20 Creative and Inspiring Business Card Designs
We love the endless possibilities of business card design and printing. There is no limit to the imagination when it comes to how you advertise your business. Here are 20 examples of awesome creativity and ingenious advertising on business cards.
The Wonderful World of Color: Notes from the Xerox Seminar
In the not so distant past, if you wanted full-color printing, you paid through the nose for it. With the introduction of the digital press, color is now affordable at a greatly reduced cost, it can be run on virtually any substrate, come off the press with no drying time, and be bound inline or off. hence longer color runs are fewer and farther in between. Here are a few facts from the “Print on Demand” seminar…
The Printer’s Dictionary
Often times printers, like ourselves, can assume that everyone knows that printing business language. We take for granted that we can talk this way amongst ourselves and expect a fellow printer to understand us. For the average joe, some of these terms may be foreign. Therefore, this post will act as a constantly updated, compiled list of terms that we printer’s use from time to time in daily discussion.
Setting-up Your Projects for Printing
The printing business has always been misunderstood and fickle. For someone who is not constantly working with pressman and pre-press departments, file set-up can seem easy, but be a confusing and contradictory process. Whether someone is a designer or a client trying to save a few bucks by taking the respectable do-it-yourself way, designing a file for print is one of, if not the most important part of getting a project to look it’s absolute best.
