The outcome of the embossed effect is unique and elegant. It can be used to add extra graphic pizzazz to your stationery, reports, or booklets. But it is not always used for ornamental purposes. The engraved effects of embossing also have a very practical use for the vision impaired. Braille embossers provide a means for blind people to read. They do this by using their fingers where they feel the surface to read it. For blind and sighted people this unique form of embossed paper treatment has been practiced for centuries. Let’s examine the a few types of embossing you can experiment with.

Dry Embossing

Here you use a stylus combined with a tracing technique to form a pattern on paper. The pattern can be raised or depressed depending on which side of the paper is up.

The Basics of Heat Embossing

This embossing technique is commonly used in scrapbook building. To perform heat embossing you will need the following items:

* These Items can be found at your local arts and Craft Supply stores
* Stamp stamping for imagery or alpha characters
* A Heat gun
* Embossing Powder
* Embossing ink pad

Embossed Printing General

Embossing is most often practiced for decorative purposes. Its affects are timeless, elegant, memorable, and lasting. It is often produced on larger solid areas and is known for its subtle broad features. Embossing forces (stresses) a material to create raised or depressed bumps. With embossed printing it is a process where areas of paper are patterned by forcing paper fibers to move from pressure treatments. It is inherently difficult process when the embossed impression contains fine line detail.

Embossed printing will add elegance to fine patterns you want to tastefully integrate into your corporate image. By making an image raised or depressed you are adding an extra dimensions to your imagery. The effect will change the nature of the material you present to your viewers. By giving it a quaint look your image is enhanced by a blank impression onto paper. It can include print imagery or blank. An image without ink is known as blind embossing. A blank impression onto paper is made used as a unique graphic affect of a reading instrument for blind people (Braille).

You can get into embossing effects for your business sooner than you think; all you need is a professional company that has the desire to stand out from the crowd. With clever planning and a secure business budget the elegant look of embossing will give you enhanced imagery. Your local arts and craft store will provide you with all the tools you need to create your own cool embossing effects. It is a good place to start if you’re looking for your own unique prototypes.

You can print raised lettering on a card, stationery, handouts or any printed item where you feel a second look is in order. Raised printing is also known as thermography. This applies especially to raised print business cards, after-all your business card can be a very busy printed item. Arguably it is one of the most traveled marketing instruments in your arsenal.

Step One Printing

This process is the same as traditional commercial printing in the beginning phase. The sheet of paper travels thorough a printing press and is printed with an image. The image comes from a plate that is developed similarly to photography. The surface of the plate is flat and each time it rotates 360 degrees it obtains a fresh supply of ink water. The ink adheres to the developed areas of the plate and the water keeps the non developed areas clean.

So the order it happens is like this; Plate Cylinder > blanket > paper.

Step Two Vacuum Pick-up Pad to Powder Unit

A newer feature with today’s raised printing systems it trackless picks up heads. This means that nothing touches the freshly printed sheet. It virtually eliminates ink and powder tracking on the printed piece. Below we can see the sheets of paper leaving the printing press and moving into the first steps of thermography,  powdering.

The powder unit holds the powder that is sprinkled on the wet ink.

Frosting of powder

As the sheet of paper travels through the powder unit is receives a frosting of powder. This fine powder sticks to the wet ink on the paper.

Step 3- The Heat Tunnel

Once the paper exits the powder unit, it moves into the heat tunnel. The heat tunnel is inferred light that causes a reaction between the powder and ink, causing these areas to swell (raise)

Step 4- The Delivery

Finally the sheet is ejected from the heat tunnel and safely lands in the delivery tray.

At the end of this process you will end up with a crisply printed raising printed result. There are limits with raised printing because of the way it is done. For example fine lines or fine line tints are often missed or distorted. When the powder and ink are baked is when most of the distortion takes place. Although you can attempt to print tints (screen @ 133 LPI or better) the result will be a somewhat clogged looking appearance. The same way fine lines (.2 px. or less) will not print as intended. It is sometimes recommended to print in both flat and raised inks together so that all design elements are produced to give the desired result.

Are There Other Kinds of Raised Lettering?

Raised printing on most products turns out quite nicely. The machines used for raised printing have come along way since the 70′s but the production process is the same as it has always been. Raised printing printers can print raised lettering on your business stationery with stunning results.
Raised Lettering on Coins

Raised lettering is also found on coins where it is produced with segmented collars that form the raised image. This happens during the minting process, where the segmented collars eject the coins after production these impressions in coins will last for centuries. As a matter of fact the oldest coin known to man is over 2700 years old. It can be seen if the Department of Coins and Medals at the British museum.

Conclusion

So, now you have it. You’ve been given my quick tutorial on how raised printing works; the next step is your choice. Take this information and make it work for you. It’s easier to move forward without knowledge, but in the end it may turn around and bite you. Knowledge is always power when it is used appropriately.

It can be used by embossing companies, lithographers or engravers.

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Often (not always) colour inks, spot color printing and varnishing are combined. When inks are not included in embossed printing it is known as blind embossed. This form of embossed engraving is also used to produce Brail, which is how the vision impaired people read. When you get your printing Blind embossed in business it is recognized as luxurious and extravagant.

To begin the embossed print process you need a concept. Once you have your graphic elements visualized they need to be illustrated in line art form. Next you will need to make a die for embossing. The least expensive way to produce the embossing die is to use magnesium based dies. They can be created photo-mechanically or digitally. This method of embossing paper may not be what you are looking for. Perhaps you want multi levels to your embossing die. In this case you need to define the depth of layers. A good example of embossed printing can be found here. This will help you understand what is involved in making a plate by using layers.

Making the communication method from an embossed printing buyer to the vendor of choice clarity.  Logos should be delivered clearly and concisely if perfection is the goal. Embossed Printing involves changing the shape of embossed paper to create multi-levels of fine imagery with paper. To transfer your desired effect on paper precisely, a simplification and outlines of the effect are required. Executed properly a beautiful three dimensional design on elegant paper will be sure to dazzle the most cynical design critics.

This old school, fine line, elegant method of printmaking is not cheap. The embossing die that is needed can also have tremendous impact on the price of embossed printing. A mag (magnesium) die, Brass Cup die, Brass Sculptured die are all priced much differently. I have listed them in order of production costs, the least expensive being a magnesium die. The basic rule of thumb is, this style of print- making is double the price of conventional printing using inks, at least.

The process of embossing is a lot like foil stamping, in fact the embossing machines that perform custom embossing also produce foil stamping. The added part to the process is the transfer of foil, which is applied from a roll that feeds into the embossing press as required. It can also bee combined with embossing ink, spot colors, and CMYK colors.

If you want to take a look at various simulations of embossing effects it can be achieved through graphics software such as Adobe Photo Shop. By using modern day technology you can virtually see your finished product before any expensive tooling takes place. This is a convenience that was not available when I began to learn this fine print making art. One fact remains about embossed printing projects is it converts ordinary in to the extraordinary.

Great Business Card Designs

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For $69/ 1000, here’s what you get!

If you want reprints of your cards I highly recommended checking out our new print and litho quality. It utilizes technology that is not being used by most printing companies. Our shiny, protective coating (it’s free too) will reach out and grab attention like Barack Obama on roller skates. We also recommend you take advantage of the FREE back printing we are offering now. Printing on the back of your business card doubles your potential reach.

What is Special about Our Full Color Printing?

After a couple years of intense internet marketing education we have invested in some of the finest printing products in the world.

• We employ a special screening method on our printing plates known as FM (frequency modulated) line screen. Huh? It means that your printed business card will look like an original photograph.More herehttp://galearning.com/weprintcolor/paper-and-ink/aq-fm-line-screen.php
• Included on every order we print is our special aqueous coating. This protective coating prolongs the life of your printed image, is 100% environmentally friendly, and enhances the printed image even more. Tips for creating the best business cards http://galearning.com/weprintcolor/business-card-design-tips/build-business-card.php
• We can easily make changes to your card or create a new one and provide a draft copy before printing.
• We ship directly to you anywhere in North America.

Grouping Orders Saves $$

If you think the price of $69.00 for 1000 business cards, printed on both sides with a shiny aqueous coding is a good deal; group your orders and get a better deal . If more people in your organization also require business cards you can save significant money without sacrificing any quality by grouping your orders and receiving group pricing. What about grouping postcards with your business card? Again, you get group discounts.

Matching Business Set

Do you need a complete business marketing package design for your company? Take your business card design to a whole new level! We have all the editable files required to completely furnish your company with stationary, presentation folders, postcards, brochures, and even a search engine friendly web site.

Once the project is completed I recommend you use one of our powerful multichannel marketing packages. You can get your own web site for as little as $399.00. You can also get a website along with 1000 full color postcards to drive traffic to your website for $499.

Well that’s about all I have to say for now, my friend. If you have worked with us before so there’s no reason for you to not have confidence in our workmanship. Perhaps you have not had the pleasure of working with us? We are very focused on your satisfaction so you will tell your friends about us.

If you need help with new ideas for your business card visit our humongous business card template gallery. When you are ready to capture your business image with a stunning business card who yu gonna call?

We’ll work with you to create a stunning business set.

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Vector Art With your Favorite DTP program

I enjoy making my own professional artwork because it’s simple to create frames, boxes, or other page elements and place them where you want them within your project. Many of these programs have on board templates that are installed with the application that are great for ideas. Using my desktop program I always come up with original art that can be sent to anyone in the reproduction business to open and include in any project it is required. I stay away from the small, mickey mouse programs because they are stand alone. This means that they are rarely supported by others and can leave you in a quandary when you are trying to get professional support. BY using the reputable programs you get the best reproduction in color in RGB or CMYK language. We are often asked to create the logo from scratch which will ultimately be sent to print and the web for display. To insure the highest degree of accuracy use programs like Illustrator, Quark or Photoshop. For our needs we like illustrator. It is our #1choice for laying out and creating most any creative item called for in any format including SWF. Illustrator is used in our operation when you want to get Images in color for your designs and full color combination templates.

Artistic Design

Common effects you can use in these programs

• Apply plain borders
• Blending The Layers
• Overlapping transparencies to create multiple color appearances
• Adding fancy borders
• Adding type treatments like flush right/ragged left
• Applying Filters and effects
• Gaussian Blurs

Tips for the Company Business Card

During the design planning, simplicity is best when you want to communicate clearly. When you design your business cards you want to give to customers remember a quick glance should tell the whole story. Don’t let it become a costly and frustrating venture, online design is executed in minutes backed up with real people, behind the scene at WePrintColor. So if you run into a snag you can always contact us directly to get the refreshing advice of a real human. Designing your business cards you’ll see how to stand out from the crowd, easily with a unique business card layout. Don’t be afraid to take some design tips from professionals, especially when it’s free.

Our Personal Commitment to you

Our staff will give you a design guide when needed that transcends the ordinary. It is in our mission to transform a Business card into a gold for you so your business will be recalled by all those that view it. In the end we have to furnish you with a few business card tips that assist you in creating the ultimate card for you. Our people will help with your business card identity and business services if you require our help. We want to make sure you are extremely delighted with the prompt first class delivery and quality. In order to remember us we need to be professional and doing the job right the first time will help us both with your fond memory of our service.

Facts on Four-Color Process Printing

Four-colour print works through light absorption and reflection. Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black is are the 4 primary colors that are used on the printing press. These colors are also available in many color laser printers today which allow you to get a rough idea of what your project may look like in its finished printed format. Four colour process colors can be determined with a color wheel that you learned helpful tips and advice with in school to design aesthetically. It is really a case of dialing the right color in then you’ll see how it’s made (Percentages of each color)

Four-color printing means Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (Kilo) as required for the printing process and CMYK digital printing machines.

If you’ve been thinking about getting business cards designed for your bird care business, but are not sure where to turn, not to worry. It’s easy to find a card that tickles your fancy, especially if you are in a hurry. There’s good news, creating the right business card design is easy! If you don’t want to spend much, but want a quality card designed, here are some ideas that have exactly what you’re looking for.

Bird Flying Through Sun Design

Cards designed to be the highest quality and the true value for your dollar. If you are a bird specialist, Provide bird care, baby bird care. Use this idea to help your care practice show its identity and help your clients understand how to take care of a baby bird.

Back Side- How to Take Care of a Baby Bird Example

This card adapts a style that derives from proven design trends in graphics and design. Design and develop unique, clean, people-friendly business cards. Cool aesthetic concepts from our bird’s collection provide beautiful colors with complementary vector art.

Show Bird lovers how to take care of newborn bird with Quality, unique and creative business card designs.

Wild Baby Bird Care Design

This card design is a perfect fit for wild baby bird care professionals. Animal lovers of all kinds can relate to taking care of a bird after birth care. Use a warm and inviting design approach and explain how to care for your new bird.

Reverse Side- Hand Raised Baby Birds

Coastal Animal Care and Bird Clinic Card Style

Create your own design. Your business card is one of the key factors in people determining what you have to offer. Start with a pre-designed template and avoid spending days reviewing your drafts. If you don’t like your drafts simply change what you see. The images above are available in high resolution format prepared professionally by graphic designers.

Designs also for boarding Kennels, Exotic birds, Outdoor Runs, Pet Boarding, Pet Care, veterinarians, Veterinary Hospital or Veterinary Services.

Parrot Care and Training Design

A Parrot is a very social bird and a great pet. Owners should know how these birds communicate. Some birds lovers get former pets that come with an established vocabulary. Parrot care for your companion parrot is essential in your success rising of this amazing pet. Hazing one of these great birds at home is similar to raising a child. It very important to provide proper parrot care to insure a happy and healthy life. When you buy a parrot it should not be taken lightly. The key to good health and well-being is education and regular health assessments.

Parrot Care Checklist

Buying and Selling Exotic Birds

Business cards with parrots are great for bird lovers caring for their own at home. You never know when they may need a helping hand. Exotic bird care can be a great business card design for any business wanting to reflect professional support for the well-being and good health of pet birds.

Backside- Exotic Birds

Taking Care of a Parrot Card Design

These images are easy to create with your own text, logo choice, background and color selection. You can edit your custom image on the fly. Capture your parrot care business with a distinct calling card design. These illustrations make the task of creating your own business card art a pleasure. Our friend Poly the Red Parrot shown in this image is telling you she loves you but take care of me.

Skin and Beauty Care with a Swan Design

An image of a swan swimming gently through the water gives the feeling of elegance, beauty, smoothness and peaceful. When you are ready to materialize your vision in beauty care this is a great style for you to complete your marketing arsenal.

Back of Business Card

Travel Vacations in the Tropics Parrot Layout

On top of a sandy island sits a parrot on tree branches. In the upper left side is a logo of the tropical drink with a lemon on the rim of the glass. The very cool concept is a sequence of images that communicate a relaxing vacation.

Layout For Bird of Paradise Care

Even though it is called the bird of paradise, it is actually an exotic plant from Africa.

Mom Swan Caring For Baby

Use the tips in this article to help you accent your business with the most suitable style. Hopefully we have given you some help that shows you ideas you never considered. All you need to do is call on the tips in this article to help get your creative juices flowing.

You can use cmyk color and the Pantone Matching System when extra colors are required by setting up extra spots colors as plates in your digital file.

You can also use cmyk color as opposed to RGB to print images but the colors may fluctuate. Cmyk inks can be used for your presentation cover with a protective coating. Utilize it color with the sliders or selectors when working on screen for truest representation of printed product. You can make cmyk printing files and save as either a tiff or an eps for best results when going to a commercial printing press.

A Quick Low-Down on CMYK (Cyan/ Magenta/ Yellow/ Black)

Four-color print colors are shown in RGB so that what gets printed looks the same as what appears on the monitor depending on calibration. Four-color printing can be used with a color wheel that you learned in school to design aesthetically pleasing colors. Four-colour print can be successfully used to print a single color brochure from a digital file that you prepare. It is used to create an unlimited number of colorful printed looking pages but using the inks shown below only.

An Explanation of Aqueous Coating

Aqueous coating is produced in one pass through the press which saves you the cost of an additional press run. A coating that also offers “spot” coating options where specific graphic areas are coated only. The coating is clear but should not yellow over time as varnish does. This coating can be printed on both Color Sides easily. This is a covering that can be applied on two sides for any type of paper, higher gloss materials present a greater challenge. Aqueous coating can have impact on its print performance over time.

Illustrator for Real Easy Vector Art

We use illustrator and Adobe Photoshop to prepare best files for inclusion in HTML files. You can use it for corporate design services where vector artwork may be a requirement. Adobe illustrator is our #1choice as the basic tool used for all print and direct mail requirements. It is easy to learn and implement into the commercial printing process. I use illustrator for sample templates that can often inspire some great ideas. Adobe’s ai remains our favorite due to its ability to make our printed sheet reality; quickly and accurately. Illustrator uses can include automated graphics programming, batch processing, create effective print designs and screen output through computer-based composition and vector Ripping devices. We use it day in and day out because of for designing entire graphic productions from concept to output there is no more stable program.

A Few Effects for Artists in Illustrator

• PDF creation
• Layer And Masking
• Using Guides
• Diffuse Glow
• Filters and effects
• Selection Coloring
• Drawing Straight Paths

Tips for the Company Business Card

When you design business cards consider producing web graphics as a branding phase to your website at the same time. This way your work can be utilized 2 fold and a consistent marketing images begins to form. During the design, planning your business card is your ticket in and out of meetings with new people so it makes sense to spend the necessary time now to make it right. While putting your business card together let the experts help you by providing the best online design tools (free). At the design planning point use templates to help get you on track , pre-made to help you with planning. By taking the time now you can transform a Business Card design into a gold nugget!

On the net today you’ll find so many choices of template designs, many have a similar look;  few of them have their own style and flare. Printing business cards in full color on your own color printer is a good way to decide on what personal presentation you fancy. Just simply design them and print them at home on your computer printer to get a good idea of what commercial print will look like. The color language you use to out put and type of color printer will effect .

Another option is to utilize a company that has web-based tools so you can design your own cards online and then they will print them in true CMYK Inks for you. With this approach will be able to select a design that you like and click through many other possibilities that you are interested in.

There are some things today that your local printer just can’t do. If you have shopped the net before you know what I am talking about. Many online printing and design companies have found specialty niches that they build on.

Steps for Getting Cards Printed Without the Internet

Imagine what life would be like without the communication of the internet. For me, I do not have to imagine it; I lived it. Without having the convenience of electronic communication here are the steps in getting your business cards printed;

1. Get in your car, drive to your local supplier of choice, Explore options
2. Place your order- make deposit payment
3. After a few days your proof is ready to view. Go to your local printers operation and approve your proof or make changes.
4. If you make changes (most people do on first draft) return again to approve the revised draft
5. Wait 5-10 days for a finished product and finally pick them up

All of these steps are necessary in creating your unique business card if there was no internet.

They can all be done in a few minutes by going to your kitchen, making a cup of coffee and relaxing. Now, on your computer you leisurely create a business card that pleases you, FREE. Whether you design your own business cards using computer software or buying business cards online, dealing with the right company will make your buying experience a pleasure and one that you will pleasantly repeat.

Make the Right Choice

When you are making your business cards, there are fonts, colors, sizes, paper types, backgrounds and objects to chose from. There are simply millions of possible variables that can sometimes make your choice an overwhelming one. Some customers may not have the time and patience to carry out this task. However, most online printers are more than willing to work with you to help build your own unique business card.

How do you choose the best business card for you?

Customers can always choose who they want to do business with but I recommend this only after seeing what’s out there. After all, your business card is a reflection of you and getting the very best value for your dollar while not affecting quality should be your goal.

Here are a few tips to help you make the right Choice:

• Look between the cracks, see what prepress techniques are being used. Specifically the line screen measure (LPI). LPI is how many dots per inch the printer uses. The more dots the printer can clearly print in one area the more photos realistic your business card will appear. You also want to ask if they use FM line screen
• Ask about protective coatings. Find out if FREE coatings are being offered.
• Look for the best place to get business cards printed based on the above points
• You want to feel as though the business cares for your order
• Are there rewards programs if you choose their service?
• Make sure the card design you choose is unique and personalized without infringing on copyrights.
• The thickness of card stock not less than 12 point for coated or #100 for uncoated cover stocks.
• Get multiple quantity Prices
• Online you also can add your own photos and custom images if you desire
• Don’t forget about the backside design

Paper Based Business Card Printing Options

The printing of your business card can be done a few different ways:

• Buy Perforated (tear out) sheets from your local office supply outlet and print them on your own printer. This can be used for a presentation that you have forgotten to get professional business cards for. Although this method is easy and cheap I do not recommend it as these cards will not stand up to wear and tear or moisture contact. Warning : Inkjet printing smears and runs if exposed to moisture – this does not leave a positive impression with your prospect after sitting in their sweaty pocket for a few minutes
• Digital- this means that your card is printed on some sort of digital printing machine, usually toner based. If you consider this option it is important to understand that your print quality will not compare with true print and litho, especially when you factor in technologies such as FM line screen and Aqueous Coatings. The reason one might consider this option is due to time constraints, but the truth is this style of card will not stand up against lithography.
• True Print and Litho- You may want to choose the design options that support a greater array of color that offset print and litho delivers. There are 2 basic colors styles of sheet fed offset printing, spot color and CMYK color. Spot Color or CMYK printing is where a printing press is used to produce your business card. The ink is actually absorbed into the paper a certain degree. The amount of absorbency depends on whether you are using a matt or glossy finish. In either case the ink is absorbed into the material which creates a better bond between ink and paper. You may also opt in on a protective coating which will further enhance the longevity and colors of your card. Professional printing is the best way to produce your business cards, although some digital gurus may argue that point, I gladly invite any comments on this blog.

When all projects are completed storing info electronically makes for easy and color-consistent reordering.

Here are a few ideas for printing and using your business cards

• Print labels describing your current promotion and stick them to the back of your card
• Attach them to business bulletin boards
• Print Double sided business cards to increase your mileage
• Get magnets from your local office supply store that can be attached to your business cards

Always consider printing the back-side of your card. Some ideas include mission statements, promotions, map to location, calendar or a metric conversion ruler. If you are printing on the back of your card you want to plan on ordering no less than 1,000 business cards if commercially printed. Most online companies have a minimum order of 1000 when the business card is getting professionally printed. In digital printing there are no real minimums although 1 sheet (8 ½ “X 11″) contains 10 business cards and that would likely be the way your digital printer of choice would produce a digital business card.