Laser printer

A laser printer is a common type of computer printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper. As with digital photocopiers and MFPs, laser printers employ a xerographic printing process but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of a laser beam across the printer's photoreceptor.

A laser beam projects an image of the page to be printed onto an electrically charged rotating drum coated with selenium. Photoconductivity removes charge from the areas exposed to light. Dry ink (toner) particles are then electrostatically picked up by the drum's charged areas. The drum then prints the image onto paper by direct contact and heat, which fuses the ink to the paper.

Laser printers have many significant advantages over other types of printers. Unlike impact printers, laser printer speed can vary widely, and depends on many factors, including the graphic intensity of the job being processed. The fastest models can print over 200 monochrome pages per minute (12,000 pages per hour). The fastest color laser printers can print over 100 pages per minute (6000 pages per hour). Very high-speed laser printers are used for mass mailings of personalized documents, such as credit card or utility bills, and are competing with lithography in some commercial applications.

The cost of this technology depends on a combination of factors, including the cost of paper, toner, and infrequent drum replacement, as well as the replacement of other consumables such as the fuser assembly and transfer assembly. Often printers with soft plastic drums can have a very high cost of ownership that does not become apparent until the drum requires replacement.

A duplexing printer (one that prints on both sides of the paper) can halve paper costs and reduce filing volumes. Formerly only available on high-end printers, duplexers are now common on mid-range office printers, though not all printers can accommodate a duplexing unit. Duplexing can also give a slower page-printing speed, because of the longer paper path.

In comparison with the laser printer, most inkjet printers and dot-matrix printers simply take an incoming stream of data and directly imprint it in a slow lurching process that may include pauses as the printer waits for more data. A laser printer is unable to work this way because such a large amount of data needs to output to the printing device in a rapid, continuous process. The printer cannot stop the mechanism precisely enough to wait until more data arrives, without creating a visible gap or misalignment of the dots on the printed page.

Instead the image data is built up and stored in a large bank of memory capable of representing every dot on the page. The requirement to store all dots in memory before printing has traditionally limited laser printers to small fixed paper sizes such as letter or A4. Most laser printers are unable to print continuous banners spanning a sheet of paper two meters long, because there is not enough memory available in the printer to store such a large image before printing begins.

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How Laser Printers Work

The Basics: Static Electricity:

The primary principle at work in a laser printer is static electricity, the same energy that makes clothes in the dryer stick together or a lightning bolt travel from a thundercloud to the ground. Static electricity is simply an electrical charge built up on an insulated object, such as a balloon or your body. Since oppositely charged atoms are attracted to each other, objects with opposite static electricity fields cling together.

The path of a piece of paper through a laser printer

A laser printer uses this phenomenon as a sort of "temporary glue." The core component of this system is the photoreceptor, typically a revolving drum or cylinder. This drum assembly is
made out of highly photoconductive material that is discharged by light photons.

The basic components of a laser printer

The Basics: Drum

Initially, the drum is given a total positive charge by the charge corona wire, a wire with an electrical current running through it. (Some printers use a charged roller instead of a corona wire, but the principle is the same.) As the drum revolves, the printer shines a tiny laser beam across the surface to discharge certain points. In this way, the laser "draws" the letters and images to be printed as a pattern of electrical charges -- an electrostatic image. The system can also work with the charges reversed -- that is, a positive electrostatic image on a negative background.

The laser "writes" on a photoconductive revolving drum.

After the pattern is set, the printer coats the drum with positively charged toner -- a fine, black powder. Since it has a positive charge, the toner clings to the negative discharged areas of the drum, but not to the positively charged "background." This is something like writing on a soda can with glue and then rolling it over some flour: The flour only sticks to the glue-coated part of the can, so you end up with a message written in powder.

With the powder pattern affixed, the drum rolls over a sheet of paper, which is moving along a belt below. Before the paper rolls under the drum, it is given a negative charge by the transfer corona wire (charged roller). This charge is stronger than the negative charge of the electrostatic image, so the paper can pull the toner powder away. Since it is moving at the same speed as the drum, the paper picks up the image pattern exactly. To keep the paper from clinging to the drum, it is discharged by the detac corona wire immediately after picking up the toner.

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Offset printing and it's advantages:

A printing technique whereby ink is spread on a metal plate with etched images, then transferred to an intermediary surface such as a rubber blanket, and finally applied to paper by pressing the paper against the intermediary surface. Most print shops use offset printing to produce large volumes of high-quality documents. Although the equipment and set-up costs are relatively high, the actual printing process is relatively inexpensive.

Desktop publishing generally involves producing documents on the computer, printing out drafts on a laser printer, and then offset printing the final version. To produce the plates used in offset printing, a print shop requires either film or high-resolution paper output, which the printer can then photograph. You can obtain either by taking a PostScript file to a service bureau

Offset printing advantages:

Advantages of offset printing compared to other printing methods include:

• Consistent high image quality. Offset printing produces sharper and cleaner images and type than letterpress printing because the rubber blanket conforms to the texture of the printing surface

• Quick and easy production of printing plates

• Longer printing plate life than on direct litho presses because there is no direct contact between the plate and the printing surface

Photo offset:

The most common kind of offset printing is derived from the photo offset process, which involves using light-sensitive chemicals and photographic techniques to transfer images and type from original materials to printing plates.

In current use, original materials may be an actual photographic print and typeset text. However, it's more common -- with the prevalence of computers and digital images -- that the source material exists only as data in a digital publishing system.

Offset litho printing on to a web (reel) of paper. Commonly used for printing of newspapers and magazines for high speed production.Sheet-fed lithoOffset litho printing on to single sheets of paper or board. Commonly used for printing of short run magazines, brochures, letter headings, general commercial (jobbing) printing

Present day:
Offset printing is the most common form of high-volume commercial printing, due to advantages in quality and efficiency in high-volume jobs. While modern digital presses (Indigo Digital Press, for example) are getting closer to the cost/benefit of offset for high-quality work, they have not yet been able to compete with the sheer volume of product that an offset press can produce. Furthermore, many modern offset presses are using computer to plate systems as opposed to the older computer to film workflows, which further increases their quality.

In the last two decades, flexography has become the dominant form of printing in packaging due to lower quality expectations and the significantly lower costs in comparison to other forms of printing

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Flexographic Printing. Technlogy and it is features:

Flexographic Printing.
A flexographic print is made by creating a positive mirrored master of the required image as a 3D relief in a rubber or polymer material. A measured amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of the printing plate (or printing cylinder) using an engraved anilox roll whose texture holds
a specific amount of ink
The soft plates and highly fluid inks used in flexography make the process ideal for printing on nonporous materials such as foil laminates and polyethylene. Originally, all flexographic plates were made of molded rubber, which is still the preferred material when multiple copies of the same image are needed on a single printing cylinder. Rubber plate molds are impressions of original relief surfaces, such as type forms or engravings, and are normally used to make several duplicate rubber plates.

Flexography often abbreviated to flexo, is a method of printing most commonly used for packaging.
The preparation of a printing cylinder using molded rubber plates is a time-consuming process because many rubber plates are mounted on a single cylinder and each plate must be carefully positioned in relation to the others.

Products

Typical products printed using flexography include brown corrugated boxes, flexible packaging including retail and shopping bags, food and hygiene bags and sacks, flexible plastics, self adhesive labels, and wallpaper. A number of newspapers now eschew the more common offset lithography process in favour of flexo.

Optional Features:
Web guide system
Tension control system
Auto throw ON - Throw OFF for plate cylinder
Continuous rotation of inking rollers with hydraulic motors
Lubrication system
Doctor Blade system
Ceramics Anilox Rolls
Exhaust System
Motorized and Synchronized Rewinding stations

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Printing Techniques

Preprinted bar code labels can be produced using any printing process. In fact, some preprinted labels are produced using the same printing systems found in on-site printing systems. However, most preprinted label vendors use one or more of the following preferred printing systems because of their speed and accuracy: Film Master/Printing Plate, Ion-Deposition, or Photocomposition.

The film master/printing plate approach to preprinted labels use a very accurate photographically produced film master of the bar code. This film master is used to produce a printing plate, and the plate is used in a variety of commercial printing presses to produce the preprinted label. Since the data coded in the film master bar code is fixed, This system cannot produce sequences of bar coded serial numbers, or bar coded variable, customer supplied data.

Ion deposition is an electrographic, non-impact imaging process capable of printing bar codes and other information on substrates such as paper, vinyl, polyester, and tag stock at very high speeds. The ion deposition printing station operates similar to a xerographic photocopier, except the image of the bar code is electrostatically placed on a dielectric drum rather than optically imaged on a photosensitive drum. Sequential labels and variable data labels can be printed by ion deposition.

The "best" preprinted bar code symbols are produced by photocomposition. The use of the photographic process to produce consecutively numbered bar code labels has some advantages over other commercial production methods. If the primary considerations are: (1) overall quality of the bar code image; (2) high density messages; or (3) flexibility in label size and construction to meet special application requirements, then the photographic process may be particularly suitable.

Because of the cost and complexity of the technology, photographically produced bar code labels can only be produced by preprinted label companies specializing in this printing process.

Photographically printed bar code symbols are produced by special computer controlled photographic printing machines that produce original images of each bar code symbol, not copies. The hardware and software that make up the photographic process are complex. The actual process of creating the image, however, is relatively straightforward.

A moving beam of intense light "strokes" the bar code image through a lens system onto photosensitive material. This is done in a raster fashion, similar to the way a television image is produced. Instructions for creating the size, shape and placement of each individual bar and character are stored electronically in the computer's memory.

After the image is created, the photosensitive material is processed to develop and "fix" the image, much as photographic film is developed into slides or prints. Next, one of a variety of pressure-sensitive adhesives is applied to the back of the image-bearing material.

After the adhesive with its accompanying release liner is applied, die-cutting is done to create individual labels or label sets of the size and shape required. Die making, previously an inexact art, is now a science, and is being aided by lasers and other computer-controlled processes to produce labels to very exacting tolerances.

In most cases, the photosensitive material that bears the bar code image is photographic paper. But unlike a conventional label where ink rests on the surface of the paper, the photographic process allows the image to be formed within the paper. In this way the bar code image is naturally protected from excessive abrasion, smudging, or smearing. Another important advantage in the photographic process is the nature of the paper and the way the image is developed. This means that it will not fade when exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet radiation, important for bar code labels that depend so heavily on contrast between the background and the bars.

Photographically produced bar code image quality remains constant regardless of the material chosen for the photographic process. Typical resolution is 3,000 lines per inch with a bar dimension tolerance of less than 1 mil X-dimension This extremely high resolution makes very high density bar codes possible using the photographic process.

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Printing Technology & Digital printing

Digital printing accounts for approximately 9% of the 45 trillion pages printed (2005 figure) around the world.

Printing at home or in an office or engineering environment is subdivided into:

* small format (up to ledger size paper sheets), as used in business offices and libraries

* wide format (up to 3' or 914mm wide rolls of paper), as used in drafting and design establishments.

Some of the more common printing technologies are:

* blueprint—and related chemical technologies.

* daisy wheel—where pre-formed characters are applied individually.

* dot-matrix—which produces arbitrary patterns of dots with an array of printing studs.

* inkjet—including bubble-jet—where ink is sprayed onto the paper to create the desired image.

* laser—where toner consisting primarily of polymer with pigment of the desired colours is melted and applied directly to the paper to create the desired image.

* line printing—where pre-formed characters are applied to the paper by lines.

* heat transfer—like early fax machines or modern receipt printers that apply heat to special paper, which turns black to form the printed image.

Vendors typically stress the total cost to operate the equipment, involving complex calculations that include all cost factors involved in the operation as well as the capital equipment costs, amortization, etc. For the most part, toner systems beat inkjet in the long run, whereas inkjets are less expensive in the initial purchase price.

Professional digital printing (using toner) primarily uses an electrical charge to transfer toner or liquid ink to the substrate it is printed on. Digital print quality has steadily improved from early color and black & white copiers to sophisticated colour digital presses like the Xerox iGen3, the Kodak Nexpress and the HP Indigo Digital Press series. The iGen3 and Nexpress use toner particles and the Indigo uses liquid ink. All three are made for small runs and variable data, and rival offset in quality. Digital offset presses are called direct imaging presses; although these receive computer files and automatically turn them into print-ready plates, they cannot insert variable data.

Small press and fanzines generally use digital printing or more rarely xerography. Prior to the introduction of cheap photocopying the use of machines such as the spirit duplicator, hectograph, and mimeograph was common.

For every newspaper, book, or other printed product, there is a production crew laboring behind the scenes, from printing press operators to bindery workers. As a printing technology major, you’ll learn the skills necessary to plan, prepare, and complete print jobs, from assembling film to operating printing equipment to cutting and collating the finished product.

Most programs offer both old-school and new-school techniques, so by the time you graduate, you’ll be prepared for hands-on production work as well as cutting-edge desktop publishing.

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Modern printing technology

Across the world, over 45 trillion pages (2005 figure) are printed annually. In 2006 there were approximately 30,700 printing companies in the United States, accounting for $112 billion, according to the 2006 U.S. Industry & Market Outlook by Barnes Reports. Print jobs that move through the Internet made up 12.5% of the total U.S. Printing market last year, according to research firm InfoTrend/CAP Ventures.

Offset press

Offset printing is a widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier on which the image to be printed obtains ink from ink rollers, while the non-printing area attracts a film of water, keeping the non-printing areas ink-free.

Currently, most books and newspapers are printed using the technique of offset lithography. Other common techniques include:

* flexography used for packaging, labels, newspapers.

* hot wax dye transfer

* inkjet used typically to print a small number of books or packaging, and also to print a variety of materials from high quality papers simulate offset printing, to floor tiles; Inkjet is also used to apply mailing addresses to direct mail pieces.

* laser printing mainly used in offices and for transactional printing (bills, bank documents). Laser printing is commonly used by direct mail companies to create variable data letters or coupons, for example.

* pad printing popular for its unique ability to print on complex 3-dimensional surfaces.

* relief print, (mainly used for catalogues).

* rotogravure mainly used for magazines and packaging.

* screen printing from T-shirts to floor tiles.

Gravure

Gravure printing is an intaglio printing technique, where the image to be printed is made up of small depressions in the surface of the printing plate. The cells are filled with ink and the excess is scraped off the surface with a doctor blade, then a rubber-covered roller presses paper onto the surface of the plate and into contact with the ink in the cells. The printing plates are usually made from copper and may be produced by digital engraving or laser etching.

Gravure printing is used for long, high-quality print runs such as magazines, mail-order catalogues, packaging, and printing onto fabric and wallpaper. It is also used for printing postage stamps and decorative plastic laminates, such as kitchen worktops.

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How Scanners Work ? Tips and tricks

Scanners have become an important part of the home office over the last few years. Scanner technology is everywhere and used in many ways:

• Flatbed scanners, also called desktop scanners, are the most versatile and commonly used scanners. In fact, this article will focus on the technology as it relates to flatbed scanners.
• Sheet-fed scanners are similar to flatbed scanners except the document is moved and the scan head is immobile. A sheet-fed scanner looks a lot like a small portable printer.
• Handheld scanners use the same basic technology as a flatbed scanner, but rely on the user to move them instead of a motorized belt. This type of scanner typically does not provide good image quality. However, it can be useful for quickly capturing text.
• Drum scanners are used by the publishing industry to capture incredibly detailed images. They use a technology called a photomultiplier tube (PMT). In PMT, the document to be scanned is mounted on a glass cylinder. At the center of the cylinder is a sensor that splits light bounced from the document into three beams. Each beam is sent through a color filter into a photomultiplier tube where the light is changed into an electrical signal.

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How to Buy a Scanner?

Step1 Buy a low-resolution scanner only if you will use it just to scan text.

Step2 If you don't plan to scan from books or magazines, consider a sheet-fed unit, which takes up far less desk space than a flatbed scanner.

Step3 Purchase a low-resolution or medium-resolution scanner if you plan to scan photographs to use on the Internet, as the resolution of Web graphics is low anyway.

Step4 Buy a high-resolution scanner if you plan to scan photographs to print and you have a high-resolution printer (greater than 600-by-600 dots per inch, or dpi).

Step5 Buy a model with 36-bit color depth if you plan to scan photographs or color graphics.

Step6 Purchase a parallel-port scanner if you don't expect to use the scanner often or work
with large files.

Step7 Remember that even scanners that cost less than $100 will provide a good picture'600-by-1,200-dpi resolution. Scanners priced between $150 and $250 usually provide 1,200-by-1,200-dpi resolution.

Step8 Know that speed is the biggest factor in pricing. Parallel-port scanners, which use your existing printer port, are the cheapest and slowest. USB scanners, which require that your computer have a USB port, are faster and cost more. SCSI-card scanners are the fastest and most expensive. You need to install a SCSI card in your computer if it does not have one.

Tips & Warnings

* Your computer will need at least 32 (ideally 64) MB of RAM to scan.


* Don't buy a scanner that has greater resolution than your printer or display device. The extra money will be wasted. Make sure the scanner includes scanning software, an image-editing program and an OCR program

* Some manufacturers mislead consumers with resolution claims.

* Optical resolution is the primary determining factor of quality.

* Be wary of small flatbed scanners that use a CIS (contact image sensor) instead of a CCD (charge-coupled device). They are more reliable but produce inferior image quality and color.

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How to Buy a Printer

step 1 Consider the various sizes, shapes, and capabilities. They range from portable printers to printer/copier/scanner/fax combinations the size of a small filing cabinet. Combination units (called all-in-one or multifunction printers) are great if you're short on space, but be sure to test the features that are most important to you.

Step2 Decide between ink-jet and laser printers. How you'll use the printer will guide your decision.

Step3 Choose ink-jet if you print infrequently, or if you're going to print color pictures. Ink-jet printers are less expensive, but can cost more per printed page because of expensive inks.

Step4 Go for a laser printer if you mainly print text (and lots of it), and you want fast, permanent printing. They cost more up front, but less in the long run due to cheaper supplies. Longer lasting laser printers can be repaired more easily and less expensively.

Step5 Buy a brand name to help ensure that you'll be able to get service, software, support and supplies in the future. Brother, Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark are the leading brands.

Step6 Confirm your computer's operating system, especially with older machines, supports the printer. Printer drivers come with the printer, but you can also download them from the manufacturer's Web site. (Search for the driver to confirm that the printer will work with your computer.)

Tips & Warnings

• By law, the printer's warranty remains in effect even if you use toner or ink produced by a company other than the original manufacturer.
• It's probably not worth having an inexpensive ink-jet printer repaired if it breaks.
• Some manufacturers void a printer's warranty if you use refilled ink cartridges.

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5 Tips for a Great Brochure

Tip 1: Know Your Print Size
Shawn told me that one of the most common errors made by those who create their own brochures, but one of the most challenging to correct, is an incorrect setup size for the brochure. He says that all too often, a print layout has to be returned to the customer because it wasn't setup for the proper output size. Don't use an 8.5 x 11 layout and submit it for printing on 8x10 paper. MacKinnon points out that when a print service has to stretch or shrink a brochure layout to fit the paper, the quality of the print resolution may be compromised.

Tip 2: Allow for Bleed
What is print bleed? Think of it as an insurance policy to make your final printed brochure look its best. Brochures are printed together in sheets, and then sliced into single units. The blade that cuts out each brochure is precise, but when cutting thousands of pieces, it can fluctuate slightly over the course of the order.
MacKinnon says, "By expanding your brochure design slightly beyond the established page borders, when we cut each page you’ll have solid ink coverage from edge to edge. This is imperative if you have a photo, color, or pattern that needs to be displayed to the extreme edge of your brochure layout." Designing your brochure with an extra 1/8th inch of coverage beyond each edge is recommended.

Tip 3: Resolution is Key
Using high-resolution images in your layout is a critical step toward creating a professional looking final brochure. If you submit something for print that isn’t the proper resolution, your images will come out ‘soft’, blurry, or even pixilated.
The images you see on your computer monitor are only 72 dpi (dots-per-inch), which is fine for viewing on a monitor, but very inadequate for a professional-looking printed brochure. Your images should be at least 300 dpi to print clearly with full sharpness. There are a variety of stock image sites on the web where you can obtain inexpensive, high-resolution, royalty-free images to use in your brochure designs. Some stock image sites even offer free high-resolution pictures you can use for your brochure.

Tip 4: Select the Correct Paper
Most print shops that print brochures offer either an 80lb or 100lb stock paper, with a variety of gloss / matte finishes. It’s really your choice in the end, but a 100lb stock is surprisingly more substantial than 80lb stock paper without a huge cost difference. Using a heavier paper may convince a potential customer that you are more professional than your competitors.
Adding varnish will add an appealing gloss to your brochure, but if you have a lot of ink coverage your brochure will appear glossy anyway. However, if you use too many dark colors in your brochure design, using a varnish will prevent fingerprint smudges on your brochure.

Tip 5: Be Original and be Creative
Carefully consider what you want to say with your brochure. What information are you trying to convey?
You can start by looking at your competitors to see what approach they're taking in their advertising materials. Have they provided all of the necessary contact information? What makes other brochure designs leap out at you?
Remember, the front of your brochure is all people will see when scanning display racks, so make sure the front of your brochure is appealing and makes prospective customers want to pick it up!
MacKinnon goes on to advise, "Don’t get stuck using the fonts that shipped with your software. Everybody has those fonts, and you don’t want your brochure to look like everyone else's." Look around the web for a variety of free, interesting fonts you can use to make your brochure stand out from the crowd and look very professional at the same time.

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Printing 3D Toys with Fabr, home-made 3d-printer

It is great to discover that more and more people people are inventing unique applications of 3D printing technology. For example, a certain Lou Amadio writes in his blog that he wishes and deserves to print toys for his son who is four years old, or at least recreate replacement components for those toys inevitably broken or eaten by kid. But his approach promises to become much more extreme then you might consider: he's not only going to print the toys, he's creating his own specialized 3D printer to do it with! By following the RepRap project he has designed the Fabr. instead According to Lou's blog post.Just before my son’s 4th birthday, my wife and I purged some of his toys. We looked for things he didn’t play with any more, stuff our younger son wasn’t interested in, broken toys, and toys with missing parts. The amount of stuff we found was staggering. What we could - we donated; what we couldn’t donate we removed non-recyclable parts and recycled the rest - but we still ended up with lots of stuff that went right into the landfill. There has got to be a better way. With the recent spat of recalls related to lead or dangerous products, I wanted to be more aware of the life cycle of the toys my kids play with. What if you could make your own toys? And have the ability to directly recycle them into new toys when the children get bored or break them? What if you could share your toy designs with a community? These thoughts have driven me to start designing and building my own 3D printer. I’ve been following the RepRap dev team with enthusiasm, but wanted to take a slightly different approach to the problem. The RepRap’s goal is to achieve self replication - but in order to build your own RepRap, at the moment you need access to a real 3d printer.I designed Fabr as a 3D printer which uses commonly available parts, requires minimal part fabrication, is highly accurate, and has enough power to not only extrude plastic, but can be used to mill metal (metal casting), wood or plastic.Here are some of Fabr’s key components: 80/20 extruded aluminum Bars and Fasteners (purchased from the 80/20 Garage Sale on eBay) Anti-backlash nuts and drive Couplers from Dumpster CNC from Jameco Screws, bearings, and aluminum bars from McMaster-Carr Timing belts, and Pulleys from SmallParts A custom stepper motor controller board based on EasyDriver3 Interfaces with Sketchup

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Online Business Card Designer Studio – Site Features

Mange Front side and Back side of Business, Post, Greetings Cards
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Administrator can create the templates and Display it at front side from secure panel
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Administrator can manage all static content from secure panel [FAQ, About Us, Contact Us, Upload Center, Terms & Conditions etc...]
Administrator can manage order management from security panel
Administrator can manage user management from security panel

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Flash Designer Studio - online Business Card Designer

our Flash Design Studio works same like greeting card design program, Online Business Card Designer Software or Print Business Card Software, postcard design software, print procurement management, visiting card design software and promotional card design. Users can able to do the following things using our online flash design studio.

Design Business Card, Post Card, Greeting Cards Manage Common Images (Admin can manage this section) User can Upload Own Images and use all uploaded image into the Card Set Different Font, Font Size, Font Color, Font Style (Bold, Italic, Underline) Set Background Image Set Clip Art Image Clip Art Image Rotating Text Rotating Multiline Text Position (Left, Center, Right) Multiple Text Alignment (Left, Top, Bottom, Right) Set Gradient Background Color .JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, .ETS, .PNG, etc. Image Format Support Convert RGB to CMYK Convert CMYK to RGB Draw Rectangle, Circle, Line, Pencil Tool Available Fill Color into the Rectangle and Circle Set Different Size border Cut, Copy and Paste Facility Undo/Redo Facility Delete Background as well as Delete Shape and text Card Orientation Facility (Horizontal, Vertical) View Gridlines on Studio Object Layer Facility (Bring To Front, Sent to Back etc.) Create JPG Image Create PDF With High Quality PDF Preview facility with Watermark

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Print Design and Order Management

We offer web based Print Shop Management Software System for Printing Industries which allows printing companies to manage their print business completely online. We can develop and design online print management software completely based on your requirements. Our online print designer software allows your visitors to design, upload and place order of different types of products like Business card, Greeting Card, Post Card, Promotional Card, T-Shirt, Mug, Stationary.Print Design and Order ManagementYour visitors or customers can use the predefined templates of our system to design different types of products or also they can upload their own design, logos and images using upload center in the system. Visitor can finalize the design after creating the design, place order for their designs and make a online payment for that order.Key Features of Our Print Company Management Software SystemSelf Service Design Studio (Web Based) for Print Related Products Template Engine to Serve Pre-designed Products Print Order Management Print Products Order Tracking System Flash Based Custom Designer Studio On-line Procurement Integrated Upload Center to capture order with ready design PDF Proof (Non Printable Versions) Print Ready 300dpi PDF (CMYK Compatibility) Back Office for Order Processing Information Center (With Content Management System) Customer Account for Saving & Reordering Design Online and Off-line Payment Module Support multiple printing products in one designer studio Completely Web Based Print Products Design and Order Management Multi Language and Multi Currency System (Based On requirement) Benefits of Online Print Shop Management ApplicationExcellent Opportunity for Small Print Businesses and companies to promote their business in global market through internet. Custom Card Designer Studio for Client Satisfaction. Admin can keep the track of users and orders through User and Order Management System. We have the readymade Print Products Designing and Ordering Management System with us so you can get the system with mainly products like business card, greeting cards and post cards within short time and if you have requirements of additional features in the system than we can customized that features in our readymade system.Contact Us now to get the Web Based Print Company Management System Solution with full customizable features.Posted by Radix Web India at 2:20 AM 0 comments Labels: business card design and print online, business card printing, business card upload and print, flash order tool for printing, print shop software, printing company website
Online Business Card Designer (Flash) Radix offers web based online Flash Business Card Designer Studio to manage online business card design system which allows your clients to design business card, greeting card and post/promotional card using online business card designer flash studio at your website.Also they can use the existing predefined templates and design from the site or they can upload their own design through upload center.After creating the custom design of business cards, greetings card and post/promotional cards from designer studio, your visitors can make online order and payment for their business card, greeting card or post cards designs.Online Business Card Designer Studio BenefitsBenefits for your clientsThey can create the custom design of business card, greeting cards and post/promotional cards or they can upload their own design through upload center. They can place view the design and approve the card design. They can place online order through order management system after finalizing the card design. They can make the online payment for their order. They will get the order at the described shipping address after making the payment. Benefits for your company and your staffExcellent concept for small print businesses to promote their business in global market through internet Client satisfaction User and order management Admin can keep track of repeat orders and customers Radix Web Based Online Business Card Designer Studio SolutionWe offer the following solution to our clients to manage their business card, post card, promotional card design and sales completely online.Corporate Solution : Informative pages which would talk about services offered Location Based Information : Site will have following information which will be based on location selected by client. Products : Customized And Special Products, Front and Back End Design, Product Information, Templates, Pricing Cart and Buying Flash Designer Studio Upload Center : Allows customer to upload ready to print files for printing Admin InterfaceIf you have any query regarding Online Business Card Designer Studio and Sales Management System than please Contact Us now to get the solution.Questions? Your requirements are not listed here? Contact Us now and send your print business requirements to get your print business requirements solution.

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portable

What is a portable program ? : A portable program is a piece of software that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any other computer. It can be your email program, your browser, system recovery tools or even an operating system. The coolest part about it, is that all of your data and settings are always stored on a thumbdrive so when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind
Portable7zip is a file archiver that supports the new “7z” format with very high compression ratio using LZMA compression. In addition, it supports the creation/extraction of 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR files, as well as the extraction of RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS files.

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Check Printing Software - Choosing the right Check Printing Software for your Business

Check Printing Software

Check Printing Software - Choosing the right Check Printing Software for your Business Check printing software can save you both time and money. With check printing software, you do not need to store preprinted checks, it significantly reduce fraud. And some check printing software allows you design your own checks and print checks on blank computer stock. Check printing systems vary in price, performance and functionality. A search of the internet may yield countless results not necessarily in order of price, quality or reputation. You may also find that cost is not necessarily related to quality. The following steps will show you how to select the right check printing software for your business.

Step 1: Shortlist Your Requirements

You first need to decide what kind of check printing software would be suitable for you. If you just need basic printing function, a stand-alone application is a good solution. Such software will allow you format your own checks, change logo, change labels, change labels position and print your check on blank computer check. If you need to print regular payroll checks or checks for re-occurring payments, then you need should opt for more complex accounting software with built in printing feature.

Step 2: Decide Upon Your Budget

You need to decide how much you intend to spend on this check printing system. Most stand-alone check printing software cost you less than $50. But payroll software with printing feature may cost more than hundred dollars. QuickBooks Payroll Standard is $199, Peachtree Pro Accounting 2008 is $169 and ezPaycheck 2007 is $89.

Step 3: Compare Different Options Available

Once you shortlist your favorite options that suit your requirement then it is a good idea to compare all the features offered by each software. This would help you to narrow down your list to two -three good software.

Step 4: Trial Version

Download the trial versions or ask your local vendor to give you the CDs to test software. You should be pretty familiar with the software before you make any serious purchase. Simple jobs like creating a check design should be as simple as possible.

Step 5: Make a Purchase

Once you decide upon your favorite software and get familiar with it, you can think about making a purchase. Try before you buy - Choose software with most comfortable graphical interface. It should be easy to navigate and handle. Casey Yang is a freelance writer focusing on small business management.

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Printing Techniques

Printing Techniques

Preprinted bar code labels can be produced using any printing process. In fact, some preprinted labels are produced using the same printing systems found in on-site printing systems. However, most preprinted label vendors use one or more of the following preferred printing systems because of their speed and accuracy: Film Master/Printing Plate, Ion-Deposition, or Photocomposition.

The film master/printing plate approach to preprinted labels use a very accurate photographically produced film master of the bar code. This film master is used to produce a printing plate, and the plate is used in a variety of commercial printing presses to produce the preprinted label. Since the data coded in the film master bar code is fixed, This system cannot produce sequences of bar coded serial numbers, or bar coded variable, customer supplied data.

Ion deposition is an electrographic, non-impact imaging process capable of printing bar codes and other information on substrates such as paper, vinyl, polyester, and tag stock at very high speeds. The ion deposition printing station operates similar to a xerographic photocopier, except the image of the bar code is electrostatically placed on a dielectric drum rather than optically imaged on a photosensitive drum. Sequential labels and variable data labels can be printed by ion deposition.

The "best" preprinted bar code symbols are produced by photocomposition. The use of the photographic process to produce consecutively numbered bar code labels has some advantages over other commercial production methods. If the primary considerations are: (1) overall quality of the bar code image; (2) high density messages; or (3) flexibility in label size and construction to meet special application requirements, then the photographic process may be particularly suitable.

Because of the cost and complexity of the technology, photographically produced bar code labels can only be produced by preprinted label companies specializing in this printing process.

Photographically printed bar code symbols are produced by special computer controlled photographic printing machines that produce original images of each bar code symbol, not copies. The hardware and software that make up the photographic process are complex. The actual process of creating the image, however, is relatively straightforward.

A moving beam of intense light "strokes" the bar code image through a lens system onto photosensitive material. This is done in a raster fashion, similar to the way a television image is produced. Instructions for creating the size, shape and placement of each individual bar and character are stored electronically in the computer's memory.

After the image is created, the photosensitive material is processed to develop and "fix" the image, much as photographic film is developed into slides or prints. Next, one of a variety of pressure-sensitive adhesives is applied to the back of the image-bearing material.

After the adhesive with its accompanying release liner is applied, die-cutting is done to create individual labels or label sets of the size and shape required. Die making, previously an inexact art, is now a science, and is being aided by lasers and other computer-controlled processes to produce labels to very exacting tolerances.

In most cases, the photosensitive material that bears the bar code image is photographic paper. But unlike a conventional label where ink rests on the surface of the paper, the photographic process allows the image to be formed within the paper. In this way the bar code image is naturally protected from excessive abrasion, smudging, or smearing. Another important advantage in the photographic process is the nature of the paper and the way the image is developed. This means that it will not fade when exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet radiation, important for bar code labels that depend so heavily on contrast between the background and the bars.

Photographically produced bar code image quality remains constant regardless of the material chosen for the photographic process. Typical resolution is 3,000 lines per inch with a bar dimension tolerance of less than 1 mil X-dimension This extremely high resolution makes very high density bar codes possible using the photographic process.

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