Print Cinch is a Print Services and Promotional Products company based in Annandale, VA. We help you plan, produce, and distribute your print and materials and branded merchandise efficiently and economically - every time.
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Print management services that are completely done for you. Print Cinch provides an unrivaled source of expertise to help you in the planning, production, and distribution of anything (and everything) relating to print communications and promotion.
Operating as usual
We're hiring!
Imlay International, LLC is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Sales Representative to join our team! If you have experience and knowledge of the printing industry via sales, service, design, or
Keeping busy exhibiting at the ASAE MMCC 2015 Conference. Nice turnout!
Finally, Halloween on a Friday! We hope everyone has an awesome, safe holiday and a great weekend :)
It's time to start thinking about printing Holiday Cards! We're excited to have more production options and sizes available this year to help your brand craft its own unique message. Call IMLAY today to get the (jingle) ball rolling!
IMLAY would like to introduce you to our newest member of our staff- Mojo! He doesn't have any printing experience, but how could you say no to that face? ;)
…and Happy Friday, we hope you all have a great weekend!
IMLAY will be closed on Monday, May 26th, in observance of Memorial Day. Have a great weekend, everybody!
The view from outside the Imlay office today…
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
IMLAY Prepress Tip: Set it Off!
When you create a PDF for print from a layout program like InDesign, you should create it with Crop Marks, whether it bleeds or not (but it's a MUST if it does bleed). These marks help us keep the positioning you intended! However, the best practice is to go one step further and Offset the Crop Marks by 1/8" (.125"). Doing so will back the Crop Marks out of the bleed area, so you can be certain no marks will be present on the final product.
If you have any questions about how to use or offset Crop Marks in whatever program you're using, just give us a call. Imlay is happy to help : )
Happy Friday, everyone! We found this great, short video to share with you from Ben Barrett-Forest explaining the history of the fonts we all know and love (and also, Comic Sans).
http://dreamingincmyk.com/2014/04/10/the-history-of-typography-an-animated-short/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+printingsbestblogs+%28Printing%27s+Best+Blogs%29
Designer Ben Barrett-Forrest created an amazing & informative animated short about the history of typography & fonts. Ben used 291 paper letters, 2,454 photographs and put in a total of 140...
Happy Friday! We had to share 14-year-old Suvir Mirchandani's story with you. This young man has a plan to save the government big money...by changing the standard fonts they use at the GPO. Check it out!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11
A teen's science fair project led him to realize that changing fonts could save the U.S. government millions of dollars.
One acre of young, healthy trees will produce 4,280 pounds of oxygen and capture 5,880 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.
Want more facts about the sustainability of the print and paper industries? Check this out:
http://www.internationalpaper.com/Apps/D2E/Down2EarthOnline/ps-03.html
You’ve seen it over and over. Pay your bills via the Internet. Help save a tree by receiving your statements online. What if we really did become a paperless society? It’s not likely or even desirable. Consider this: Landowners face pressure from development and other land uses all the time. Would y...
IMLAY Proofing Tip- Archeology 101
Sometimes you'll see thin white lines on your PDF proof that won't actually print. These are called artifacts. There's an easy way to determine whether these will print or not! All you have to do is check it out at several different magnification (zoom) levels. If it disappears, reappears, moves around, or does a little jig, it won't print.
Even easier- print it out and take a look! And Happy Friday!
IMLAY Proofing Tip- Breakin' (Out) the Rules!
Adobe Acrobat's measuring tool can be frustrating with it's selections when you want to measure elements on your PDF. It's much better at measuring between guides! All you have to do is turn on your Rulers (View->Show/Hide->Rulers & Grids->Rulers…or Cmnd+R Mac/Cntrl+R PC) and then pull your guides from the ruler area to where you want to measure. If you are still having trouble getting the Measuring Tool to select the guide, zooming in should solve the problem.
"When people use more paper, suppliers plant more trees. If we want bigger commercial forests, then we should use more paper, not less."
- Edward L. Glaeser, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
http://www.internationalpaper.com/Apps/D2E/Down2EarthOnline/index.html
We're buying more electronic products than ever. And we abandon them faster. Eventually it will all have to be disposed of. But how?
Happy Friday, everyone! Have a great weekend!
IMLAY Design Tip- How to Get the Blues!
No matter what it looks like on the screen- if you're printing CMYK and there is less than a 30% difference between your Cyan and Magenta values- it's going to come out as Purple on press. So if you're at 90 for Cyan, you don't want to exceed 60 for Magenta.
Did you know that our 29th President, Warren Harding, was apprenticed as a printer? Read more about the "Printer President" here…and have a great President's Day!
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29thPresident of the United States (1921–1923), a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate where he protected alcohol interests and moderately supported women's suffrage. He was the fir...
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone- but especially to Marilyn, Heidi, and Dana- the three ladies that keep Imlay so classy!
We're taking a wait and see approach to the weather tomorrow- but even if we're not in the office, we'll be working from home, so please email us if you need anything. Thanks everyone, stay safe and warm!
Stay Green, Keep Printing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSpCcUzsA5E
Love this kid's attitude!
High school freshman Isaac Lufkin went to Super Bowl XLVIII, and now wants to play in one.
Timeline Photos
IMLAY Design Tip: Use the Right Tool
Prepare your art in the program that is best suited for the task. Illustrator® is a drawing (vector) program, ideal for logos, packaging, posters and single-page layouts.
Photoshop® is a pixel-based (raster) program that lets you size, color-correct and manipulate scanned images such as photographs and flat art.
Neither is intended for multi-page documents (Illustrator can accommodate multiple pages, but it's easier to generate PDFs and faster to preflight for errors in InDesign or Quark).
For multi-page documents, use a page layout program such as QuarkXPress® or InDesign®.
Imlay is too busy to Facebook today (thanks, everyone!)
Please enjoy this picture of a puppy and a kitten instead :)
Did you know? If you spend more than 40 minutes reading something online, you would create a smaller carbon footprint if you printed the material out, since both your computer and the server providing the information are using energy.
Happy Friday from Imlay!
IMLAY Design Tip: Go the Distance with Business Cards
When you design a business card, save yourself the headache of multiple templates later- plan your layout using the longest name and longest title in the organization now.
Need to get a message to your members, donors, or customers FAST and CHEAP? Cards that are between 3.5x5" and 4.25x6" can qualify for the First Class Postcard rate. That's cheaper than a Standard Letter and WAY cheaper than a First Class Letter!
Even better- print with Imlay and be certain you'll capture that sweet rate.
Powering a computer takes a lot of energy. On average it takes 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity to power one computer continuously for five months. It takes the same amount of electricity to produce 440 lbs. of paper, the typical amount of paper each of us consumes annually.
It's easy being green with printing!
It's Super Bowl week! The official Madden video game simulation of this year's Super Bowl predicts a Broncos win. Keep in mind- this official simulation is 8-2 in predicting the winner of the last 10 Super Bowls. Do you think it's going to be right again this year?
Madden NFL 25 has spoken. The Denver Broncos defeated the Seattle Seahawks 31-28 in the official EA SPORTS prediction of Super Bowl XLVIII.
IMLAY Design Tip: Make Image Changes Before You Import!
Scale, rotate, and otherwise manipulate images in the original graphic application (Photoshop or Illustrator) before you import them into your page-layout program (QuarkXPress or InDesign). When you manipulate images in
your page-layout program, you make the layout much more complex, and that can result in output problems.
The first Forever stamp, issued in 2007, was the Liberty Bell. On Sunday, the cost of Forever stamps will go up from 46 cents to 49 cents.
Postal Rate News! On January 26, the USPS' exigent rate increase will take effect. The USPS' current position is that this is a temporary increase to last approximately 2 years. Standard Mail and Periodical rates are both affected. Plan on a 6% increase in postage costs for these rates.
Happy Snow Day, everyone! Stay safe.
"The ultimate test of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy."
—Martin Luther King, Jr., address delivered at Nobel Peace Prize Recognition Dinner, January 27, 1965
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