I currently work as head of a prepress and digital label printing department. Digital printing can be an expensive business, with some pretty hefty up front costs. However I have found over the last year that it is the printer consumables, such as toner cartridges that can really eat into the companies profits. The […]

I was watching TV last night when something dawned on me. The NBC.com logo that appears repetitively through the night is actually just the logo with “.com”. Not the letters NBC but just the logo. I probably didn’t notice this before because I just read it as NBC even though there were no letters that […]

I had a fellow designer ask me today what AQ coating meant, coming from a prepress person. This is an abbreviation for the words Aqueous Coating. This is a special coating that is applied to the paper to help with color brilliance and durability. It is a nontoxic finish but it tends not to be […]