Importance of Business Card Design and Printing
Usually a business card belongs to specific person serving a specific organization. The business cards symbolize both the individual as well as organization. Therefore, it has vital importance because of this dual representation. For others your business card is the messenger of your business that transmits several unique messages about your company, its business and quality of service. Therefore, you cannot overlook its importance for your business.
Just assume a situation, where you are waiting for a meeting with a corporate client. Normally your business card reaches to the corporate representative before you. In such cases, the business card is the first impression of your business. The client will make an imaginary picture about you and your organization by juts looking at your business cards. That means more attractive and informative business cards can guarantee a better first image in front of your clients and end recipients.
Now you are aware with the importance of your business cards, so whenever you plan ordering a set of business cards for your company, always keep its final look and feel in mind. The very basics of a successful business card design is its attraction and information print on it. Mandatory information like company logo, contact info and popular products or services should be present on every business card.
Consult a professional graphic designer for designing your company logo or departmental logo (in some cases). Tell them your business domain, and your vision for business. They will provide you an attractive and professional looking logo, specially designed for your business cards. May be he can provide you the complete design of business card according to the layout and information to be printed.
After completion of business card designing process, you need to find an expert business card printing service provider with several years of excellence in providing quality business card printing service. Nowadays different type of printing technology is available with unique features. The most popular is full color offset printing. It’s the easiest and cheapest way of printing business cards. Another popular method of printing business card is thermography. It is used in raised-letter printing of business cards.
However, one thing that is important to consider is the business card design and business vertical. Too flashy and multi colored business cards will not suit Doctors and Advocates. Similarly, single color or plain business cards can’t do justice with an Architect or Interior Designer. That means there should be a fair integration between the business and business cards for a better support.
Comment from Cristian's Mommy!
Time September 26, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Hi there,
Unfortunately designing for print media and designing for web media are very different and PrintMaster Platinum, as the name suggests, should be used for the former. Looking at the source code for your website confirms this.
Large file sizes for graphics cannot be used on the web, as they can for print, so they have to be compressed to a smaller size. This is why your images do not look as high quality as they do on your screen.
I'm sorry to say that the first thing you need to do is ditch PrintMaster as website design tool. I think OLSB has tools for creating website, so this is probably your best bet.
Otherwise, you have three options:
1) Learn HTML and CSS markup and design your website yourself – this will take a lot of time but is probably the cheapest option.
2) Purchase something like Dreamweaver (drag and drop web design software) to design your website with – Dreamweaver is quite expensive. This will probably take less time but there is still a steep learning curve. I don't think I would recommend this option.
3) Hire a local website designer to do the job for you – depending on where you live, this may be more or less expensive than buying Dreamweaver. It would also be the quickest option and give the most professional results.
I guess this is probably not what you wanted to hear but unfortunately this is my honest assessment. You never know, maybe some of the kind folk here at Yahoo Answers will have a bit of time on their hands and be able to help you
Good luck