{"id":1979,"date":"2012-03-31T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T02:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/?page_id=1979"},"modified":"2021-02-03T00:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T07:33:41","slug":"designnp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/designnp\/","title":{"rendered":"Design and Post\/Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Custom Design and Post\/Print<\/h1>\n<h2>Custom Design<\/h2>\n<p>I am an experienced writer, editor, and graphic designer who provides custom design services that include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logo Development or clean-up (vectorization for clean rescaling)<\/li>\n<li>Tag line development<\/li>\n<li>Fine-tuned colour selections<\/li>\n<li>Attention to fine detail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Printing<\/h2>\n<p>I perform in-house custom design and I am a print reseller for reasonable-cost, fast-print vendors offering full four-colour printing on one or two sides of 14 pt heavy card C2S bright white paper with a semi-gloss coating which helps resist abrasion and aging. Typical print products include art posters, art prints, annual reports, book covers, high-quality print advertising, picture postcards, and business cards.<\/p>\n<h2>Business Cards<\/h2>\n<p>Custom <em><strong>Design and Print<\/strong> <\/em>special:&nbsp;&nbsp;1 hour of custom design service and printing of 1000 1 side or 2-sided + AQ 14 pt, cut to size (3.5&#8243; x 2&#8243;) and boxed. Recommendation:&nbsp;&nbsp;2-sided card, using the second side for either a <a href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/designnp\/qr-codes\/\">QR Code <\/a>for use with smartphones, or for service and product details.<\/p>\n<h3>Business Card Upgrade Print Options:<\/h3>\n<h4>1. Finish in high gloss or matte:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>High Gloss UV 14 pt: &nbsp;a shiny, smooth, and glossy finish on 14 pt bright white heavy card<\/li>\n<li>Matte AQ 14 pt: &nbsp;a satiny smooth finish on 14 pt bright white heavy card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2. Laminations in high gloss or matte:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Gloss Lamination 14 pt: &nbsp;a&nbsp;shiny glossy finish from&nbsp;gloss&nbsp;transparent lamination<\/li>\n<li>Matte Lamination 14 pt: &nbsp;a thicker, silky-smooth finish from&nbsp;a transparent matte lamination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>3. Keep track of appointments, or make notes with a writable back upgrade.<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Writable Back C1S 14 pt: &nbsp;coated front and a writable uncoated back to make it easy to write information on the back of the card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>4. Environmentally friendly or more robust stock:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Thicker &#8211; AQ 16 pt: &nbsp;a heavier card with a&nbsp;semi-gloss aqueous coating<\/li>\n<li>Recycled stock &#8211; 13 pt: &nbsp;100% recycled material<\/li>\n<li>Linen stock &#8211; 13 pt: &nbsp;a textured stock<\/li>\n<li>Plastic stock &#8211; 14 pt: &nbsp;durable and tear resistance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Postcards<\/h2>\n<p>Available sizes:&nbsp;&nbsp;4&#8243; x 6&#8243;, 5.5&#8243; x 8.5&#8243;, 4.25&#8243; x 5.5&#8243;, 4.25&#8243; x 6&#8243;, 8&#8243; x 5&#8243;, 6&#8243; x 9&#8243;, 8.5&#8243; x 5.5 (half-page)<\/p>\n<h2>Circle Stickers<\/h2>\n<p>1 sided full colour printing on&nbsp;white paper, white vinyl, or clear poly. &nbsp;(White paper should not be used for outside applications.)<br \/>\nGloss lamination coating; choose <strong>quantities<\/strong> of&nbsp;250, 500, 1000, 2500, or 5000; choose <strong>sizes<\/strong> of &nbsp;1&#8243;, 1.5&#8243;, 2&#8243;, 2.5&#8243;, 3&#8243;, 3.5&#8243;, or 4&#8243;.<\/p>\n<h2>Other<\/h2>\n<p>I specialize in flyers, posters, and book covers and products that help with marketing goals.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/contact-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CONTACT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are a <strong>few<\/strong> sample links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/2015\/lucky-star-guitars\/\">Lucky Star Guitars (<\/a>pre-press&nbsp;setup, editing, logo vectorization, print services for business cards and circle stickers)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/2015\/pump-it-up-dj\/\">Pump It Up DJ<\/a> (logo creation, print services for business cards, inter-media post services, social media services: Facebook, Twitter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/bgpcorp\/audiocd\/\">CD packaging<\/a> Michael St. George, Larry Vannatta, Wes Hillyer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/2011\/off-road-time\/\">Off Road Canada<\/a> company business cards, calendar print&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Ultimist Electric Ltd.&nbsp; (logo creation, print services, qr code creation, inter-linking electronic post services, social media services, website)<\/li>\n<li>High Country Catering (website, brochure, business cards, menu)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Noble &#8211; website, book designs, reading posters, author photography<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Hunter &#8211; social media marketing, <a href=\"http:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/2015\/sept-29-2015-reading-owls-nest-books-calgary\/\">reading poster<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Walter Hildebrandt &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/illegal-combinations\/\">book design<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/c-optics\/\">broadsheet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Custom Design and Post\/Print Custom Design I am an experienced writer, editor, and graphic designer who provides custom design services that include: Logo Development or clean-up (vectorization for clean rescaling) Tag line development Fine-tuned colour<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/melacey.com\/blog\/designnp\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1979","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Design and Post\/Print - M. 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