Shelley Hucul

Benjamin Franklin’s famous adage, “Take time for all things: great Haste makes great Waste” applies to most things, but especially to the printing industry. This pearl of wisdom teaches that sometimes, you have to slow down long enough to do a good job and long enough to detect errors and correct them. In the printing business, no truer words are spoken. One can only imagine the number of errors that can slip through the cracks, when a big printing company, like a Newspaper, is…

Deep down, we are all inherently a little critical inside. We are always, subconsciously on the lookout for bloopers, or flops. If we find them, we make a mental note to self as to where we saw the error. This can be the case with your business. When you want to represent yourself in the best manner possible, spelling and grammatical errors can be an annoyance and can be distracting to your customer. Silly mistakes can help undermine confidence in your customers and your readers, creating…

Here are: 5 basic proofreading steps to help you avoid costly and embarrassing mistakes. 1. Use the spell check on your computer to help detect errors But also have another person help to check over the spelling and grammar. There are classic confusions with words like: “there, their, they’re, they are, or it’s and its”. These are words that the spell check will not flag as errors, and this is where good old human know how works best. 2. Watch out for Homonyms Homonyms…

The business landscape keeps on changing, and it has become a challenge to keep up with all the new trends and exciting tools available. Keeping apprised to all these changes in the techno-computer world can help local businesses in-crease visibility in the marketplace. Hucul Printing has taken on this challenge by interfacing Facebook, Twitter, and its company website capabilities. It has also created an active business Blog. To help stay relevant in the current business environment, this longtime Salmon Arm company is extending its information tools as a way to stay more useful…