Working With Colour
Neutral Colours Neutral Colours – Grey, Brown. These colours do not appear on most colour wheels. They are considered neutral because they do not contrast with much of anything.
Neutral Colours Neutral Colours – Grey, Brown. These colours do not appear on most colour wheels. They are considered neutral because they do not contrast with much of anything.
The Colour Wheel is a traditional way of grouping subtractive colours together in a visible way that helps to explain the relationship between them. Subtractive colours are formed by mixing colour pigments, in our case printing inks. It is not a perfect system and there are various explanations but the basic theory is described below. […]
At Peppermint Print we have 10 suggestions for supplying data for Mailings and Variable Data Printing, that will help keep your data safe and secure as well as make it easier for us to process and therefore speed up your job and make it look polished and pleasing to the eye when printed. 1. Phone Us: It […]
Here is a guide to some common terms used in the print industry A series Standard international metric range of paper sizes Acetate Transparent sheet of plastic Acid-free paper Paper made without the use of acidic chemicals which reduce its shelf life Acrobat A software developed by Adobe Systems Inc. that allows documents to be […]
In printing , image resolution refers to the amount of detail that there is in an image or photo and hence how clear or sharp it appears in a printed document. If the image resolution is too low it will look blocky or pixelated when printed; if it is too high it will make the […]
In print, images, photographs and illustrations are reproduced by 2 different methods. 1. RASTER IMAGES Introduction A Raster image is made up from thousands of small coloured squares called Pixels. When viewed by the human eye the squares are so small that they appear as one image. Another common name for a Raster image is […]
Introduction Within the print industry there are a number of ways that colour is produced. If, however, you are designing a web site or email marketing campaign you do not have to worry about colour too much as every computer screen will be set to slightly different levels of brightness, contrast and colour so you […]
UNCOATED PAPER & BOARD All paper starts off as uncoated. In the production process soft wood fibres are used to make a pulp that is then bleached, rolled flat, dried and smoothed. If viewed under a microscope you would see that the surface of the paper looks like a sponge with thousands of tiny holes. […]
A Practical Preflight Checklist The following checklist is a guide to help set up and send your work for printing; to help eliminate problems, speed up production and ensure that you get the printed job that you where expecting. Document Checks 1. Pages are set to correct finished size If your documents finished size is […]
Envelopes can be very confusing. Paper has four main criteria namely size, weight, colour and finish but envelopes have all of these plus type, window position and nature of the sealing method. It is possible to print onto pre made envelopes but you can also print on a flat sheet of paper before converting it […]
