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Unique Gatefold Brochure Design “Opens the Doors” for Success

Check out the Open Gatefold Brochure Printing for Less printed for Western Sustainability Exchange.

WSE promotes a healthy local environment and profitable local economy through responsible agricultural stewardship. For their annual appeal letter, WSE chose to engage their members with a Gatefold Brochure that resembles a local Montana Barn.

Open the “barn doors” and the brochure unfolds again to reveal an ample 9” x 17” display of information. Need help with your print? Talk to a live print expert today: 800-930-7978.

Printing at the Right Size from a PDF File

A common complaint when printing from Adobe Reader or Acrobat is that the page is not the right size. Often you find that when you print your pages to your desktop printer they have gotten smaller.

This is an easy problem to solve. You just need to look closely at the choices in the Print dialog of Adobe Reader or Acrobat.

The dialog boxes will look different depending on what version of Reader or Acrobat you’re using. Here is how the Print dialog (File > Print) looks in the current version of Reader 10.1.3. Notice that it defaults to Shrink to Page. You just need to switch to Actual Size.

The dialog looks different in Acrobat or Reader 9. Here you need to choose None (meaning “no scaling”) if you want to print at actual size. It defaults to Shrink to Printable Area.

Need help with your printing? Talk to a live print expert today: 800-930-7978.

Distinctive Product Marketing Piece: Tri Fold Presentation Folder

Check out the Tri Fold Prezzo Folder Printing for Less recently printed for Kiddo Tags, a unique company that produces convenient and stylish name labels for use on children’s items.

Kiddo Tags founder Gabby Turner needed labels that would effectively mark her kid’s items at school, but also look stylish and be extremely durable. The solution was Kiddo Tags, a uniquely customizable name tag that’s both dishwasher and microwave safe.

In marketing Kiddo Tags, Gabby wanted a piece that was as stylish as the tags themselves. The resulting Presentation Folder features a Tri Fold design, awesome Die cuts, and loads of color. Need help with your print? Talk to a live print expert today: 800-930-7978.

Creative Greeting Cards by Artists Hashim Thomas – stunning designs from iconic images

Check out the Die Cut Greeting Cards Printing for Less recently printed for Hashim Thomas, an accomplished artist and Creative Director of VisuaLogic, LLC.

VisuaLogic’s latest venture is a greeting card line based on Hashim’s “Icon Series” paintings. As noted on his website, Hashim “believes in sharing meaningful moments with the people he cares about, and extends this philosophy into a fitting product for that sentiment.”

Printing for Less experts went above and beyond with this project – creating six custom die and foil lines for the cards. The shape of the rock star’s hair line for example, has more detail than Printing for Less has ever created in a Die Cut before.

With a combination of modern art and historic significance, these cards bring a fresh look to your favorite cultural icons. Need help with your print? Talk to a live print expert today: 800-930-7978.

Montana Meadows – staying “stuck” even at -20° Farenheit

We take most printing for granted, especially printing (packaging, labels, etc.) that is involved with things we eat, such as a label or tag or things we use daily, such as eye drops or medicine. How do we know it is safe?
Montana Meadows, a Printing for Less customer, recently printed labels to go on their packages of certified all natural grass-fed beef. Located in Livingston, Montana, Montana Meadows has a strict process when it comes to their packaging: it needs to be food-safe and USDA approved, able to be run through a direct thermal machine for additional information such as the weight and product, and hold up to very cold temperatures, in the range of minus 20 degrees Farenheit. Now that is cold…

Additionally, Montana Meadows are members of the Western Sustainability Exchange. As their website states:
“WSE advances sound stewardship practices which create a healthy environment, culture and economy for the rural West. Through education, the creation of economic incentives and by fostering partnerships we accomplish this mission. The shared philosophies below unite our organization. They ground us, inspire us, focus our programs and mission and guide our organizational practices.”

Do you or your company need labels like this, that meet USDA standards? If so, give us a ring at 800-930-7978, or feel free to get a quote. We can definitely help you out. Now, I wonder if they would send us some beef samples…might make for a tasty, conscious-friendly BBQ.

Artist Nancy Wiley turned Mark Twain’s shoe into a paddleboat.

Printing for Less recently printed note cards for artist, Nancy Wiley. As noted on her website, she is a nationally recognized doll artist and painter. Wiley’s creations include whimsical doll figures made of paper clay or porcelain, figurative sculpture, mixed media pieces and paintings. Her work, inspired by fine art, mythology and fairy tales, is exhibited in museums and galleries and sold to private collectors. Her prolific career spans more than two decades.

With her work of Mark Twain, if you look carefully, the Mississippi River runs down his leg and his shoe is a paddleboat. This work was shown at the Muscatine Art Center and is also featured in A Dollmaker’s Art: The Creations Of Nancy Wiley.

Need help with your print? Talk to a live print expert today: 800-930-7978.

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