All About Printing
What to Print with a VPC?
The first step in developing a Virtual Print Center to order your print products is to analyze the types of printed material your organization uses on a regular basis. We divide printed products that lend themselves to ordering via a VPC into two categories: static and versioned. First, static: these pieces don’t change from order Read more...
This Earth Day, don’t feel guilty about choosing print!
Notice: It is OK to print this e-mail. Paper is a biodegradable, renewable, recyclable, sustainable product made from trees. Growing & harvesting trees provides jobs for millions of men and women, & a working forest is good for the environment, providing clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat and carbon storage. – BFSDaniels email signature If Read more...
It’s Friday the 13th, have you set your bleeds?
In 1980 the movie “Friday the 13th” changed forever how we view the date. Far from being merely unlucky, the date is now synonymous with fear. On that note, there’s something our pre-press department fears almost as much as a crazed maniac in a hockey mask, our clients not setting up proper bleeds. What is Read more...
I wish there was a template for that…
The current economy has a lot of our clients taking on expanded roles. We often see that many of our clients are now responsible for their own design. We know that’s not your primary responsibility. So, we’re here to help. Setting up files that can be easily printed is an art unto itself. We’ve created Read more...
Pioneer Institute bolsters on-line budget tool’s impact with print
The Pioneer Institute is a public policy think tank focused on free-market solutions to government’s problems. As part of their mission the institute publishes an interactive map of government spending. While the on-line interactive map is a great tool, Pioneer also believes that a printed version of the map is important to getting the data Read more...
Web-to-Print 101
What is Web-to-Print? Sometimes called Web2Print or W2P, Web-to-Print is actually a prepress process that connects digital content with physical print production. This process enables anyone to create, store, edit, and approve templates of various print products, such as stationery, mailers, posters, greeting cards, folders and collateral print material. These templates are created by BFSDaniels Read more...
A Bleed Has Nothing To Do With Blood!
When a print company representative asks their print company customer if their job bleeds, the question has nothing to do with blood type. In graphic arts parlance, a job bleeds when the ink runs right up to the trim edge of the printed piece, with no paper border showing. Why is Adding Bleed Necessary? In Read more...
The 8 Worst Fonts in the World
Fonts aren’t always noticed, and often that is a good thing. They are meant to be functional, artistic, supportive of a message, and appealing to the reader, but sometimes turn out to be offensive, shocking, tasteless, boring or bland. Many people have strong feelings about type fonts and are usually not afraid to express them. Read more...
3 Different Reasons to Order Your Print Products Online
At BFSDaniels | Copycop we have developed Web-to-Print portals – what we call Virtual Print Centers – for more than 70 of our customers to order their print products online. We’ve highlighted three of them on our website in Case Studies that you can read here. Berklee College of Music needed a way to order Read more...