{Nov 10, 2011

I’ve reprinted a list of local printers you might consider for your business cards. This list is taken from the The Design Office website.
I know that in the past students have had great results from Dan Wood Letterpress. I’ve also had work done at Black Cat Graphics. If you can gain access to a Pantone color guide book, it will make specifying colors easier and more accurate. The idea is that Pantone swatches are consistent and prevalent enough that if you specify a color to a printer with a Pantone number, rather than going off of your screen, your job will come back a closer match than you might get otherwise. This is because colors will render quite differently from screen to screen. If you specify color on your Macbook on a sunny day and your printer views you file on a Dell monitor in the dark, the results can be quite different. The library has an old and perhaps outdated Pantone book. I checked to see if the materials library on the 2nd floor of the library had one and they only had Pantone books for textiles (might work in a pinch). Perhaps the Graphic Design department has a set of Pantone books for student use?

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