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Important technical information about printing
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All you need to know about cardstock paper weight and thickness
When choosing paper for print work is always quite a big dilemma what cardstock weight and thikness to pick for business cards, wedding invitations, envelopes or postcards. If talking about paper weight mostly GSM term is used. GSM is a relative dimension that means how many grams will weight one … Read more ❯
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Letterpress, Silkscreen or Digital – Choosing the Right Printing Technique
Print designers have limitless imagination, and nowadays printing techniques can produce all ideas in reality. But will the final printed product always meet fulfillment and price requirements? Sometimes it turns out that creating a beautiful image on a computer monitor is often much easier than producing the real printed product. … Read more ❯
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Business Card Sizes & Shapes
Elegante Press Studio has created and printed a lot of various sizes and shapes letterpress business cards, sometimes card shapes are really sophisticated, but we are always very pleased with the originality of the people who are determined to transcend the settled standards. However, not standard size and shape can… Read more ❯ -
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Deboss vs. Emboss
While discussing with clients about their card expectations, we face with terminology dilemma – what method should be used – printing with the impression, pop out, emboss, deboss. Some customers or designers use specific technical terms but imagine something different, so in this article we will try to make everything … Read more ❯
