Monthly Archives: July 2009

Keep it a spot!

Back in less simpler times, before Digital Printing was an available technology, companies had to use offset printing for all of their business cards, letterheads and envelopes. Now for those if you who may not be familiar with offset printing,… Continue reading

Printing Basics – What is a Bleed?

Whenever an image comes in contact with the edge of the page, you need to use a bleed. But what is a bleed? Read more to find out! Continue reading

Why our calendars don't start in January, and vote for 2010 calendars!

When marketing a company, it’s sometimes difficult to streamline what you do with your promotional pieces. Most marketing is information driven, or used to drive customers to product websites.

At Mission Stream , we turned the concept of a calendar… Continue reading

Why we need fonts supplied

Supplying fonts to a printer is something every designer should remember to do. Why?

Because if a font that’s being used in the file is not included, then it can’t be installed or added to the system, and the computer… Continue reading

That’s not real!

That’s not real!

There’s no way she looks like that in real life…

Now you can “Photoshop” your images!

More and more we are hearing the phrase “that image looks photoshopped” when we see pictures that are quite obviously modified… Continue reading