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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Have you put much thought into the actual printing aspect of the card and you you want to produce it as well as teh cost of producing it different ways? For instance If all this is done in Photoshop(If you did it in something else I missed it sry) you need to be prepared to pay for 4color printing. regardless off if you choose a pantone color in photoshop if you want to be able to print tis on a press as a 1, 2, or 3 color job you should consider putting it together in Illustrator. If you use only black and i mean Black as in C=0,M=0,y=0,k=(1-100) you can doa 1 color job from photoshop. even if the color they put on the press is not black but another pantone designing it using only black for that one color in photoshop is best. Just make sure you black isn't C=63,M=58,Y=78,K=89 or some other 4 color mix that makes up black on the screen. if you do it in Illustrator use your pantone colors and screens of those colors at varying densities, NOT transparencies of them transparency and screen are not the same thing and do not always behave the same when being ripped to plate for printing. You can use gradients as long as you make sure every tab in the gradient slider is assigned the pantone a varying percentage of screen. Have you taken the bleed into account on the design when preparing your files? If you were making a standard US business Card (which it looks like you are not but the same principles apply), for 3.5" x 2" card you would need to make your actual document size 3.75" x 2.25" allowing for the outside 1/8th" of the card to be cut down to 3.5" x 2". You would want to make sure any important data is at least another 1/8th" or so in from the 3.5" x 2" cut edge. As for your design. I agree with keeping it simple the information and it's easy readability is the most important. However none of what I see here looks too over complicated to me compared to the many cards I have seen printed. Also Simple does have to mean plain in any way you just want to make sure the design does not overpower the information which is the key purpose of the card. One last thought. I saw something about 150dpi. make is 300dpi minimum for printing at all times. High resolution should not cost any extra just whether it is a 4color job or a 3,2, or 1 color job. Even 4color can be done cheaply if the files are prepared correctly. Try 4over.com or NextDayFlyers.com for an idea. [img]http://www.finlinson.com/sigs/iguanasig.gif[/img] Loading...
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