Printing & Copying

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, each colour used requires a sheet of metal called a plate. The ink sticks to the areas on the plate where the colour is required and is then pressed onto a rubber roller which then transfers the ink onto the paper. Meaning that for a full colour job you would need 4 different plates – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black for each side of the sheet that needed printing. This could become quite costly for smaller companies, which is where Pantone colours come in.

The Pantone Matching System is made up of 14 base colours that are mixed together to create a system of 1,114 different combinations which are all identified by a Pantone Matching System (PMS) number. On an offset press only one plate is required for each PMS colour which makes it easy to add colour to any job without using an expensive 4 colour process. Companies would choose specific PMS colours that would be used in all of their branding and logos.

Now that Digital Printing has become more affordable, more people are using it to print their stationary items. This becomes a problem if the company has a specific PMS colour they want to match since digital presses can only use the 4 CMYK colours to print… which is a lot less than the 14 that PMS colours use!

At Mission Stream, our digital presses are run by Colour Management Servers that very closely match most PMS colours. Each server can identify when a PMS colour is used within a file and pull up their “recipe” of CMYK to use to get close to the required PMS colour. It’s not perfect, and some colours match better than others, but we think it’s better than paying more for offset!

In order for our equipment to do this, it’s important that the PMS colours are identified as “Spot” colours in the native files used to create the document. If they are converted to their CMYK equivalent, our servers won’t properly identify them which may produce less than desirable results.

How colours are handled by our presses has been illustrated in our new Marketing Brochure. If you don’t have one yet, you can request one by sending us an email at info@missionstream.ca.
If you are concerned about how your company’s specific PMS colours will print, we will be more than happy to help you by doing some test prints and working with you to get the colour you desire!

Custom stickers that are cheap to print are extensively used all over the world for all sorts of purposes. They are used by big companies to help publicize their name or product, either by using custom window stickers, fox racing stickers, custom car sticker or custom vinyl sticker printing. Custom stickers are also used by schools and colleges, as they are cheap and easy to make through internet.

Custom stickers may be used to spread mission statements and also widely used as static clings in almost every field of life. The most commonly used custom stickers that cost the cheapest are political, educational, football decals, round custom stickers, animal decals, static clings, bumper custom stickers, and alike.

Choosing your own custom designed custom stickers for printing give you with more than a few inventiveness options that can easily do wonders for your business. Printing Blue is always here to assist you in getting your best online custom sticker printing and designing in such a way that they will attract your customers and can be a very good marketing resource for your company or business at a very cheap and cost effective rates.

Cheap custom sticker printing is available at printingblue.com. Printing blue has served its clients with high quality and cheap custom sticker printing services. Our company prides itself in providing clients all over the world with the most economical, low cost, trustworthy & cheap custom sticker printing experience than anywhere online.

Our dedicated designing and printing staff is available 24 / 7 for all our custom sticker printing orders to give eventual satisfaction in all custom sticker related services at very cheap rates. We have high-tech printing presses that are ready to print your custom sticker orders, at cheap rates, to utmost accuracy.

Our staff is highly experienced and specialized in printing of cheap low cost custom stickers. We specialize and cater to all types of custom stickers at the most cheap rates such as bumper stickers, rectangular sticker, die-cut sticker, round sticker printing and static clings.

We are quite taken with the beautiful motifs and designs from New England based Karen Battles and James Shanley of  B Designs.

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Good Morning Sunshine!

My wonderful, awesome earth! Tis, I…Fan’aye SunLight. I have been on a seriously humorous, bittersweet journey and whew! We have still got more to go and while I journey, I am looking for the good in all creation because mass media has our glorious universe projected so weak, dismal and hopeless.

Good morning sunshine! I am on a quest to publish, set up a standard and conceal not. And as I design, print and weave my creativity across the sky to explode into bits and pieces of an orgasmic rainbow, I am reminded to be still, inhale, listen and radiate like the SUN before my day is done.

Mother Earth, even though I design websites and print media for clients near and far, I can’t help but chant a positive prayer before I start their work. For we all need the rays of the resplendent light of the SUN to shimmer and shine and remove fear and darkness. And if we all are benevolent, this so called recession will be done.

Mama Earth, I am on a mission to seek out beauty, love, peace, intelligence, balance, perfection in imperfection and a host of goodness that will help me keep it on the positive. And trust me, I can be like lava sometimes, and if one day in heaven is like a thousand on earth, then I am not even a day old in heaven! I’m still a babe. (Be patient).

Positive Imagery and Multimedia is my passion and I invite you all to share empowering, uplifting, inspiring and yes, raw, shocking and eye popping information that will help us remove the scales from the eyes and the plugs from the ears. For if that is what it takes to remind us that we are not ordinary but supernatural and awesome and fearless vessels of positive energy birthed to enjoy creations glory.

Mama Mia! So goooood it is to meet ya!

Your digital gyrl
In a virtual world,

Fan’aye SunLight
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Seems a ridiculous question perhaps?

Well in days gone by, publishing referred to getting a book or magazine printed so that it would reach a wide audience. In some cases this was done for educational purposes, in some cases it was done to make money.

The concept of getting your ideas to reach a wide audience is as valid today as it has ever been. The purposes of publishing for education and for income income remain.

However, the audience can now be wider than ever and is more easily accessed, thanks to computers and the internet.

These days, publishing is not restricted to physically printing something and making it available to others. Publishing includes material posted on the internet (like e-journals*, e-zines*, e-books*) and material available in digital or electronic form (PDFs** and CDs).

So let your creativity roam free, and get publishing!

* e-journal = electronic journal; e-zine = electronic magazine;
e-book = electronic book
**  PDF = portable document format (does not care what operating system you computer uses)

Digital Printing adalah Usaha percetakan yang menggunakan teknologi digital. Lingkup kerjanya mulai dari mendesain hingga mencetak ke media kertas, plastik, kaca, dan lain-lain. Bahkan sekarang ada mesin yang bisa mencetak lima jenis media sekaligus yaitu untuk kaos, topi, kain, mug, pin, dan sebagainya.

Kelebihan dari Digital Printing adalah desain sablonnya bisa seperti foto sehingga konsumen bisa membawa file fotonya sendiri lalu dicetak di media yang dipilih. Proses pembuatannya juga sangat cepat, antara 10-15 menit. Jadi, usaha ini cocok dijalankan di mal atau tempat-tempat ramai lainnya.

Boleh dibilang, usaha Digital Printing Services adalah salah satu jenis usaha yang cukup favorit. Secara umum, modal yang besar tentunya akan mempermudah melakukan usaha. Namun, bukan berarti modal kecil akan menghambat usaha. Anda bisa memulainya dari networking terlebih dahulu samapi mencari investor, customer, partner, dan supplier.

Adapun pengetahuan dan keterampilan yang harus anda miliki adalah:
1. Pengetahuan tentang komputer, dan software yang digunakan untuk percetakan, seperti Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker, InDesign, Corel Draw, dan Freehand.
2. Pengetahuan tentang jenis-jenis media cetak.
3. Kreativitas untuk mendesain grafis.
4. Informasi harga.

Untuk membuka bisnis Digital Printing Services ini, anda memerlukan persiapan yaitu ruangan untuk showroom dan bekerja, perangkat komputer, printer warna, lisensi untuk membeli software komputer, meja kursi untuk bekerja, aneka jenis dan ukuran media cetak, gaji untuk desainer grafis, administrasi, dan tenaga penjualan, juga biaya operasional (listrik, telepon, servis komputer, dan tinta printer).

Perkiraan Modal Awal
1 unit komputer Pentium 4 = Rp 3.000.000
1 unit printer laser untuk film sablon = Rp 1.000.000
1 unit scanner = Rp 500.000
1 unit printer inkjet = Rp 500.000
Sewa tempat = Rp 7.000.000
Kertas per bulan = Rp 250.000
Listrik = Rp 200.000
Telepon = Rp 200.000
Refill tinta dua printer = Rp 35.000
Refill tinta laser jet = Rp 125.000
Total Biaya adalah = Rp 13.950.000

Kiat-kiat untuk menajalankan usaha Digital Printing Offset ini adalah:
1. Tentukanlah media seperti kertas (undangan, poster, majalah, foto, peta), plastik atau fleksi (spanduk, banner, kaca (gelas, mug), dan kain kaus, payung, spanduk. Pemilihan media akan membantu anda menentukan peralatan kerja, sdm, dan pesan dalam media promosinya.
2. Pilih lokasi Printing Offset  Company yang strategis di dekat perkantoran, kampus, atau mal. Pemilihan lokasi tergantung pada target konsumen anda.
3. Rancang desain ruangan yang sefektif mungkin, misalnya ruangan desain, ruang tamu, ruang administrasi, dan peletakan peralatan.
4. Beli peralatan Printing Services yang diperlukan. Awalnya anda bisa membeli dalam jumlah yang minim kemudian bisa ditambah jika usaha makin maju.
5. Rancangan konsep pemasaran Printing Offset  Company, mulai dari nama, papan nama usaha, spanduk, brosur, dan sebagainya.
6. Cari tenaga kerja yang bisa membantu pekerjaan anda, seperti desainer grafis, tenaga administrasi, dan penjual.

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Dukung Kampanye Stop Dreaming Start Action Sekarang

Did you ever hand over your business card, go for the shake with a prospective client and after they quickly glance at your card they pull their hand away and say ”thanks, we will call YOU”. Ouch that HAS to hurt. The bad part is that you will leave thinking they will call you and when they don’t you just don’t understand why.

Have you ever received a phone call at your place of business and the person on the other line started asking for low mien, an extra egg roll and yelled at you to not forget the duck sauce this time? Instead of hanging up, ask them who they are calling. Yeah, they have it right, they are calling you.

We all think we have the best ideas for the “face” of our business and that our image is cool and that others “get it”. Have you ever asked your clients what they think? Or even your kid brother who you know has heard what you do five hundred times over Sunday get together’s? Well ask them. It may not be what you want to hear.

It’s time to face up to your business image and Get Fresh…labs that is.

There is more to creating and promoting a brand than making a cool logo and catchy tagline. In fact, a logo and tagline are just representations of your brand. Don’t just maintain your brand, create or recreate it to promote itself!

Get Fresh Rules For Branding:

1) Pinpoint- Be specific
Know what your brand stands for, and know what your brand delivers. Your brand deliveries should be specific and attainable, and you should be able to communicate them clearly. This is what will make your brand stand out from your competition.
2) Be Strong- Grow some muscles
Once you know what your brand stands for and delivers, don’t be shy…show off. You need to make everyone else believe you’re the leader of the pack in your area of expertise. Don’t mumble about what your company does. Say it with “musclability” and conviction.
3) Constancy- Keep the flow steady
Get your brand message out there and keep a steady pace. It will take some time…hold those horses but keep that giddy up ready! A consistent message and a positive customer experience are critical elements to building your brand. So get out your calendar and get that routine down pat.
4) Honesty- A virtue YOUR business must possess
This one is simple: Do as you say and say as you do…every time! Don’t offer anything….we mean anything… if you can not follow through on it! Integrity goes a long way and karma counts even in business.
5) Push yourself but not the customer
Get your brand message out there. Then get it out again and again and again. People are inundated with ad after ad, call after call each day. It’s not only critical that you try to stand out from the competition but it’s equally important that you are not forgotten. One thing to remember is that not everyone will need what you are offering and in that case remember to thank them kindly because they just may know someone who does!

What we can do to help you.
-Brand Concepts
-Logo Design
-Business Identity Products
-Social Media Design Support
-Promotional Design
-Vehicle Graphics
-Private Label Lines
-Apparel Concepts and Design
-Banner and Signage
-Email Marketing Newsletters
-Print Newsletters
-Magazine and Periodicals
-Advertising Design
-Web/Media Design
-Fine Art- Yes we are that creative!

Ask Yourself This:

Or rather do this: Next time you get someone’s business card take a quick peek…don’t let them see (this takes practice). Ask yourself, “what does their image say about them?”

If It has you tasting Chinese food, be kind and say “hey have you ever stopped by Get Fresh Labs?” If they gave you that impression then you know the answer. Then shake their hand and say “I will call you and give you their number.” Remember…karma? Do the right thing and we will treat you to an eggroll with extra duck sauce next time we see YOU!

Consumers are still looking to hold onto their memories with hard-copy photographs. At a time when many tech-savvy users are uploading their entire photographic lives to Facebook or Flickr (s yhoo), many others — especially those with kids looking to send pictures to grandparents or other far-away relatives who might not be as computer literate — are going to sites like Shutterfly (s sfly) to get their digital pics printed out. Shutterfly yesterday reported its second-quarter revenue grew 10 percent year over year to $38.9 million, with customers and orders up 13 percent and 6 percent, respectively, despite the economic slowdown. Read the rest of this entry »