RIP, or the RIP, or ripping a file. This is some printer’s lingo we use a lot around the shop. Here is a brief explanation of what it means. Thanks for giving us your file, we will give your design over to our prepress department, and they will RIP it and get it out. Okay,…
The Holidays are almost here, and it’s time to put together your gift list. Holiday promotional items can make great gifts and also remind your customers and employees of your business. Looking to thank your customers or top employees this season? Here is a list of holiday gifts that we think make perfect thank yous and…
Paper Types – A word or two about text and cover. There are so many paper types that a person could go crazy trying to figure out what they all are and why they exist. There are hundreds of years of tradition involved with paper, and it might take a historian to clarify all the…
Football season is almost here. Score a touchdown with well-designed football promotional products, and promote your business to Bucks and Montgomery county’s most die-hard fans. Autumn air is taking over and the leaves are beginning to fall. Now is the time our thoughts turn to football. Right now the dreams are big, and a “Super Bowl or Bust” mentality…
Business golfing creates chances to use custom printed golf products to promote your business while helping to ensure customers and salespeople alike are having fun. The golf course, the office away from the office. Deals may not get signed there, but often the relationships that lead to deals take shape on the course. In fact,…
Its a Trap! Well, not really, its just another in a series of posts about printers terms and tools here at cutpasteandprint. Today we are covering the term Trap as it’s used among printers. Trap, like bleed, is essentially a fail-safe, a way of preempting problems when dealing with all the various machines involved in…
Back to School season is upon us. The annual ritual of getting ready for the routine of classes and studying. Today we point out 4 ways to use school branded promotional items to welcome students back and help them prepare for a wonderful year. Another summer has run its course, and the school bells are starting to…
Registration, tight, bad, off, or spot-on makes a big difference in the quality of your printed materials. Registration in printing is not about signing up for anything. Unlike every app you download, you don’t need to submit your personal information and a credit card just to get something printed. In printing, registration is the…
2012 proved to be a very eventful year for everyone at cutpasteandprint. The company doubled in size through the acquisition of Jaguar Press in Fort Washington, and we also completed numerous upgrades to our services and equipment. Of course, we also now have a much larger team at our shop Huntingdon Valley, and so we…
As part of the process of helping you get fantastic printed materials, we always offer a printer’s proof before we start printing. A printer’s proof is a final safeguard, that helps both our customers and ourselves from having to reprint anything. It also helps stop big and costly mistakes. A lot of times when we…
