Printing Business

Everyone Makes Silly Mistakes

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…

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5 Simple Steps to Avoid Embarrassing Mistakes

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…

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The Down Low on Digital Print

Not all print methods are the same. Digital printing refers to methods of printing from a digital-based image directly to a variety of media. It usually refers to professional printing where small-run print jobs from desktop publishing and other digital sources are printed using high-volume laser or inkjet printers and/or large format inkjet printers. Digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional offset printing methods. Called print for pay, the suppliers of these devices earn their money from click…

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Blogs keeps you posted (via Friday AM)

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…

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So What are Your Binding Options?

What kinds of bindings are suitable for your project? Here is a run-down of the various types of bindings used for multiple page documents, booklet or books, which are common to the printing industry: 1. Saddle Stitching (Stapled Binding) Booklets, magazines, catalogues and calendars can be bound with stapled bindings. A heavy duty stitching machine creates wire staples (from a large spool of wire) to hold the pages together. The machine drives the wire through the backbone fold of the piece…

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Sending Us Your Press-Ready File

Not every job we print is designed, or set up, by Hucul Printing. Many customers create their own files and we also receive files from Graphic Designers. In turn, we have customers and graphic designers posing questions about how to prepare “press-ready” files for us to print.   A common question we receive is: “What sort of File should I send you?” While there are many avenues to take to convert our customer’s files, our most preferred file type is a Portable Document Format,…

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Messages from the Past, Hucul Printing’s Rich History

Back in the Day . . . Before Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type back in the 1400s, the handwritten manuscript was the method of recording and communicating information of the day. Gutenberg came up with a process for mass-producing movable type which included a type metal alloy and a hand mould for casting type. He also was the first to use oil-based ink and he invented a wooden screw-type printing press. Gutenberg’s inventions were regarded as the introduction to the…

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