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Printing for Less Customer Project Showcase: drink coffee, get smart.

Most of us like lists. It is interesting to read about how to do something, the top reasons the sky is blue, or tips and tricks.
When it comes to educating your customers, coffee drinkers are a good audience to provide a list to. How about sitting down and reading this…with a nice cup of coffee? Works for me, and gets people interested–whether in the list, or your product.
Check out this creative use of a list by JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters out of Georgia on a direct mail postcard. Who knew 6 MILLION metric tons of coffee is produced world-wide? Read on, and find out more…

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Printing for Less Customer Project Showcase: Meet Mr. Right…he’s portable.

How do you get people to read about your business with a direct mail piece, especially when that business is “temporary restroom solutions”? (Most of us know this as a Porta-Potty).
Since 1964, Mr. John has been recognized as an industry leader in temporary restrooms throughout NJ, Eastern PA, Northern DE, Long Island and the NY metro area.  So, how do you get someone to stop and read about THAT?

You introduce them to “Mr. Right”…check out this creative and funny direct mail postcard they printed with Printing for Less.

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Printing for Less Customer Featured Product: The Art of a Newsletter

This week our featured product is an example of an 11×17 newsletter from FACT based out of Santa Fe, NM. FACT or Fine Arts of Children and Teens, is a non-profit organization that focuses on bringing arts-learning opportunities to low income, at-risk children in the northern area of New Mexico.

Providing a newsletter on a bi-annual basis, FACT is able to keep their students, parents, staff and sponsors up to date on recent activities and upcoming events. By mixing pictures of children, staff and artwork with a variety of brightly colored backgrounds, the newsletter layout is both interesting and easy to read one section at a time. FACT is able to get their message out and keep their non-profit top of mind with this fun and informative design.

See and read an in-depth analysis of this newsletter design.

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Printing for Less Customer Project Showcase: A (true) Fishing Tale…

Derek DeYoung is passionate about two things: painting and fishing. And with this brochure from Printing for Less, he was able to capture his love of those two things with a printed piece that not only gives people something visual to enjoy, but a true take-away to keep them interested.
The use of rich blacks, vibrant colors and the glossy, almost liquid-like appearance and feel of the UV coating really does justice to his art. Be sure to check out his work here, and see angling art in a whole new way.

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Missing Fonts in Adobe Applications

We began a discussion of fonts for printing with this blog posting, where we talked about the different kinds of fonts that can be used for printing.

Most experienced creative professionals would probably agree that working with fonts could be one of the most problematic issues in working with graphics applications. There are a couple reasons for this:

• It’s common to have multiple fonts with similar names, which can get mixed up or be open simultaneously. If you choose the wrong font, type can reflow, or an incorrect character can appear.

• Until the advent of OpenType fonts, the file formats and character sets of Macintosh and Windows fonts differed. This would cause problems if you wanted to share your file with someone working on the other platform.

When fonts are discovered to be missing when an Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator is opening, you’ll get a dialog (this is the one from Adobe InDesign).

You are given the opportunity to open the correct font on your computer and the problem will be resolved. If you’re not sure what font is missing, both InDesign and Illustrator have Find Font dialog boxes that give you more information and let you choose a substitute font.

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Adobe InDesign gives you the best information. It tells you what type of font is missing. If you click the More Info button (bottom right in the dialog), you can get more information about the font. If you use the Find First, Change, Change All and Change/Find buttons you can either observe the missing font and/or replace it.

InDesign also highlight,ts missing fonts by showing them with a pink background to make it easier to see where they are in your text.

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