Design Tips and Help for Making your Business Cards or Next Color Printing Project!

Will My Images Work?

If you are scanning your images from your own material for your printing project, tif or eps file formats work the best. Unlike some gif or jpg files, these formats will preserve the color and sharpness of your pictures the best for printing your Full Color Business Cards or Project.

You should scan your images using a resolution of 300dpi at the final size you want to use the so they remain sharp.

If you are using pictures from your digital camera they will work just fine! Keep in mind the quality setting of your photos when you are taking them for your Business Cards or project. the higher the detail, the better the photo.

Do You Need My fonts?

If you know how to send fonts with your printing project that would be great! so we can match you Business Card or Printing Project exact to how you created it.

Not Sure How to Do This? Go through your document and make a list of your fonts. Send that list to us and we will match them for your Business Card or Printing Order.

Will my Business Card or Printing Project look exactly like it does on my computer monitor?

There is a possibility your Business Card or Printing Project may appear different when it is printed if the project is created in RGB Color Mode. Most Scanners and digital cameras create images using these three bright colors: Red, Green and Blue ("RGB"). This is also what your Monitor uses to display images.

The Difference: Printing Presses print using a different set of colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black ("CMYK"). This process of printing does not allow the brightness and flourescents your monitor has the ability to reproduce. At some stage your RGB image or design will have to be converted to print.

It's Best If You Do Your Own RGB to CMYK Conversions!

You will have more control over the look of your printed Full Color Business Card or Printing Project if you convert all of the images from RGB to CMYK. One thing to keep in mind, your photos will have very little color shift when converting from RGB to CMYK

Warning: It is possible to make colors in RGB that you can't print in CMYK. These colors are out of the CMYK color gamut that a Printing Press produces color in. This is something the industry just has to deal with, so it is best to create your Project in CMYK!