Urihi’s Uprising

I'm a graphic producer born in the 70s and I remember the easy mistakes that my generation made, innocently, against the environment. Today we are living a long-feared pandemic that is a result of human atrocities against Mother Earth. The printing industry depends on several natural resources and it's time to think about what we're...

Part 2: Make Informed Decisions Asking the right questions and having the right answers can make decisions around how to choose a print supplier streamlined and easy. Buying print can be hard because you are not just buying a final product. You are buying an entire process. From layout to delivery, you must decide how...

Part 1: Understand Your Options Usually buying something does not present major problems. Choose the product. Select the vender. Pay. Take the product home. This works with most products, but printing is different. You are not really buying a product. You are buying the manufacture of a product, that is, a whole production process. If...

Finepaper is making old ways of enjoying print into new ways of celebrating communication by throwing a party for the 150th anniversary of a great idea: The postcard. I am always happy to learn about innovations in printing---past and present. It turns out that we are celebrating the 150th birthday of…the postcard. Created to be...

Contrary to what was expected a few years ago, printed books are not about to disappear, so it is best to know how to make them. Before I was a designer I was already a reader. I did not know the secrets of good typography, but I was aware of the mysterious power of a...

Making your design look as good in print as it does on screen is not so hard when you use a few simple methods. Final Art (FA), press-ready files, hi-res artwork…these are just some of the terms that sometimes cause designers, desktop publishers and account managers to break into a cold sweat. But are these...