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The Long View: Branding Your Brand
As a sign shop or commercial graphics provider you likely get many kinds of promotional projects to fulfill-product rollouts, special…
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Engrave Away the Background for a Gift Decorated with Laser Foil
In CorelDRAW, apply a white fill color to the logo. Next, use a solid back color-fill to create a background…
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Strategies to Sell Wholesale Items to Organizations for Fundraising
My suggestion is to promote two different strategies to an organization: selling inside and selling outside. Inside campaigns focus on…
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Keeping Up Business Volume During the Summer Months
The biggest challenge for many awards and recognition businesses during the summer is business volume. School has ended, organized sports…
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Additional Tools for Sandcarving Stone or Wood
If you’re working with stone or wood, I recommend having additional adhesive to apply to the back of your stencil…
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Custom Jig for Engraving a Baseball Bat on the Rotary Indexer
My shop recently ran into a problem engraving handmade baseball bats. The first issue was that when we laid the…
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Intro to CorelDRAW Brushes
Brushes allow you to make more complex vector graphics quicker than is possible using just the Bezier tool. In the…
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The Importance of Properly Leveled Screen Printing Platens
It’s a part of the screen printing press that is known by many names – platen, pallet, shirt board –…
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Why should embroiderers consider using a laser to create emblems?
Whether you only need a small quantity or high volume, using an embroidery laser will dramatically speed up the production…
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What are the most common pricing models for embroidery?
Keystone pricing: The end price is set at double the wholesale price. Time and materials: The pricing here accurately represents…
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Designing Award-Winning Signs: Masonry Makeover
You receive a call from a local HOA who has a significant sized stone monument. They feel it’s time for…
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How do you clean engraved laminate after processing?
If smoke residue occurs on the piece of laminate during laser processing, clean it off using methylated spirits. Simply wipe…
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3 Tips for Printing in the Resort Wear Market
Resort wear can be an awesome opportunity for consistent work at a great margin. While a lot of the same…
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How can I save time heat printing names and numbers?
When you’re in the heart of your busy season, you want to put all your energy where you can make…
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Digital Printing: How to Camouflage Banding in a Design
For a long time, the only way to reproduce a full-color image for garment decoration was through screen printing. However,…
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Tricky Fabrics to Embroider
Like all art forms, embroidery is trial and error. In a craft where very little is known to be concrete,…
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