This week, we helped a local artist, Joanne Phillips, in South Carolina, convert her canvas painting into beautiful prints. She needed to quickly (and cheaply) turn a physical painting into sellable prints. In most cases, this is not very difficult to accomplish if you are…
Print companies like us usually produce booklets with the Saddle-Stitch binding method. This arrangement uses printed sheets folded together then stapled through the fold line with wire staples. The staples pass through the folded crease from the outside and clinch between the centermost pages. The…
Designers and common-folk sometimes must resort to using templates. Templates save us time, money and energy and can be pivotal in helping us stay within budget. I'm a huge fan of Envato Marketplaces, a hub of different template sites, and have used ThemeForest for a…
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Are you hosting a party for Valentines Day? Whether it is personal or professional, the below designs from GraphicRiver will help take your print marketing to the next level for less than ten bucks. All templates require a beginner's knowledge of manipulating graphic files in…
Color is complex. When submitting your files to a print company, it can become frustrating when colors do not pair up as you intended. You are not alone. Even professionals struggle with color accuracy due to a book of variables that can become confusing. Fortunately,…
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We see thousands of art files each week at Printkeg. It is quite surprising to see the large percentage of artwork that does not include bleed area. We struggle with designers and non-designers, and due to the workload, we are beginning to charge a small…
We're huge Canva fans, and we've talked to many customers on a budget who rely on the service for their designs on a daily basis. Canva is an excellent and easy-to-use online destination for creating graphics for just about anything web or print media. Designing web…
Paper weight is confusing. Our company describes the paper weights we've selected, but different print companies and manufacturers often use unfamiliar terminology and support varying paper types and paper weights. How does it all compare to each other? That's what we will hopefully answer in this article…
Who on earth would anyone want ideas for business card designs that encapsulate CMYK? Print companies and graphic designers dedicated to print of course! As a fellow print lover, I bring you the below design ideas I found while searching the interweb. But first, what…