Business cards always play an important role to spread a word about any business. The information on a business card includes name, brand logo, company name and other contact information. This information can be really beneficial to promote any identity or business. There are many types of standard business cards and that are:
Standard Business Cards
Custom Business Cards
Round Corner Business Cards
Folded Business Cards
When it comes to standard business cards; they are 3.5 * 2 Inches and they are printed on 14pt (300 gsm) cover stock. The printing can be done on both sides for the card and it can be full color printing with Glossy or Matte lamination and even with horizontal and vertical printing. The size mentioned above is standard US size. The standard business cards can be printed for various business purposes like Cafés, Travels, Electronics Restaurants, and Motels.
The more information about printing standard business cards can be found at www.dowprinting.com and even you can order online to print business card for various business card sizes.
Surely, brochure distribution is a fire way to give a sudden boost to your business. But is it right for all types of brochures? I would say no. because you can print black-white brochures and four color or full color brochures. Simple and black-white brochure may get a look but color brochures get appreciation and discussion among people. A part from printing cost, color brochure printing is much superior to simple and colorless brochures.
Now, one can raise question that if color brochure printing is effect, than is there any place that prints attractive and exact color brochures that we want? I would say yes. Online printing company has much tendency to print attractive full color brochures at affordable rates.
How to choose best online printing company for color brochure printing?
Truly, your search engine will find out hundreds of online printing companies in seconds. But are those all online printing companies are capable to print color brochures according to your needs and desires? I am in a state of tussle while answering this question. But here I am going to share a trick with you that will enable you to locate best online printing company for your color brochure printing.
Basically, color brochure printing service totally relies over a printing technology that is known as CMYK technology. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key or Black are the basic colors for any full color printing material. Before choosing any online printing company, ask for its printing technology. If they satisfy you regarding their CMYK printing service, it means your colors will be effectively handled on brochures. Place your order and feel free.
What is analog printing?
Analog printing refers to the printing process in which manually prepared screens / plates are used for printing any type of material.
What is digital printing?
Digital printing refers to the printing process in which computerized control ink jet printers and laser printers are used for the printing any type of material.
Here I have tried to show the readers that digital printing is far better in all ways as compare to analog printing or conventional old style of printing. Basically the differences between both the printing methods make digital printing superior over analog printing and here I have tried my best to highlight those differences. If you are going to print custom business cards through analog printing and digital printing, the differences are given as follows
1. Printing quality
The above mentioned shows the major difference between analog printing and digital printing due to its printing quality from different aspects. One can easily interpret that digital printing is better.
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Analog printing
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Digital Printing
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Photography
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Not good
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Good
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Embossed printing
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Fair
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Good
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Printing on irregular surfaces
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Not good
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Good
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Variable Data
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Not good
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Fair
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Low quantity printing
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Not good
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Good
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Large quantity printing
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Good
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Good
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2. Difference in printing process
Here I am going to mention a complete process of analog and digital printing to show you a difference from this aspect.
(a) Analog printing Process
All stages involved in analog printing are given as follows
- To print any material first step is to create files for each and every color used in printing and a then to separate those files with respect to their colors.
- The second step is to create screen for every file with respect to their colors. It means every color needs a separate screen. These screen are produced by heating process
Third step is to dry the screens
- Fourth step is about printing. But here again one has to print each colored file separate from rest and after one and other, all colors will be printed.
- Dry the colors
- Finally keep the screens safe for next time usage.
(b) Digital Printing Process
Now I have mentioned all the stages involved in custom business cards printing through digital printing
- Check the received data. Data can be given through soft copy (via email, data transferring devices etc) or hard copy. If data has been taken in hard copy then it is required to convert it in soft copy by scanning the data.
- Set media; give a printing command to ink jet printer or laser printer and printing starts.
- Full color or full color CMYK data is printing without any separation of colors.
- Keep the data in your computer for printing next time.
The above mentioned printing stages show that how much it is difficult to print custom business cards by using screen printing and how effective is to choose digital printing.
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Analog printing
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Digital Printing
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Photography
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Not good
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Good
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Embossed printing
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Fair
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Good
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Printing on irregular surfaces
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Not good
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Good
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Variable Data
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Not good
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Fair
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Low quantity printing
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Not good
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Good
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Large quantity printing
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Good
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Good
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