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Being Harsh With Your Drafts For Online Printing |
Article Submitted by: Andrew Michaels
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
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Sometimes in online printing, you have to be a little bit tough and harsh with your drafts. Believe me, this is a required step if you want your online printing to be done correctly. With a harsh kind of editing and review, you should be able to spot all the bad and incorrect elements in your prints, and give you the opportunity to correct them. So before you send your drafts to that online printing company, you should be harsh with your document and do the steps below. 1. Check text in cold blood - This is part of the proper kind of writing for print materials. It is from the saying that one should "write in white heat" and then "edit in cold blood". You must always be harsh with your text content. You won't like displaying gross spelling and grammar mistakes to the world right? So make sure that you are really harsh. Read all the sentences and correct every technical and stylistic mistake that you can see or should not allow. Have no mercy as your prints will never gain anything good and significant if it has text content errors. 2. Be brutal in image reviews - If in text you edit in cold blood, with images you should be brutal. The image of course will carry the attractive factor as well as the interest power of your online prints. Without a very powerful, eye-catching and deep image your prints will not really survive too long with its readers especially if you face tough competition in marketing or sales. That is why you should really be brutal with your images for online printing. Dissect them and check for real good quality work. Make sure that everything is crystal clear and of course there should be no fuzziness or pixels showing up in your work. If any mistakes, even small mistakes are in your draft print images, you should not really try online printing. It is important to fix all mistakes you have in your design first before committing to the order itself. 3. Run the designs through a sample gauntlet - Another part of "tough love" with your full color prints is with the general layout or design of your prints. After checking all the elements yourself, you should also run your samples through the gauntlet of sample people that would be receiving them. By logging their reactions and even the subtle emotions as they go through the samples you should be able to root out the real problem with your prints and of course adapt your designs for the better. 4. Test print and test integrity - Of course do not actually forget to do some test printing and integrity analysis. If your online prints do not live up to the best quality seen on screen, then you will be in trouble. So it is good to print your materials first as a guiding step and then of course judge if really all the printed elements are in place. Otherwise, you will want to actually change your approach and redo your designs to make them more optimized for marketing. 5. Do reviews at least 3 times - Lastly of course, do your review of the content and other elements at least three times. This allows you to eliminate "public bias" with your prints and of course enables you to root out all the mistakes and adjustments necessary for the best quality full color inks. Great! Now you know how to be a little bit more assertive with your prints. The more you check the better the designs should be after online printing. Good Luck. Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
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