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Your Plastic Cards And Key Tags Snap Out Of A Direct Mail Postcard!

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Magnetic Pizza - The Quiz

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This is a print brain quiz for you. Print Brain is a quick-quiz that tests your printing knowledge. You have to use your imagination here. Let's say you wanted to decorate every fridge in your county with a full color reminder of what great tasting pizza you make - and that you deliver on time with a smile almost anywhere? The answer, might just stick with you . . . Would you: a) Have the local sign shop create a custom full color van wrap for each of your customers' fridges? b) What's a van wrap? c) Give each customer a free slice of pizza with your business card stuck to the cheese toppings - with a bottle of spray adhesive and instructions on how to throw the pizza at their fridge so that it sticks long enough for you to saturate the pizza and the fridge with the spray adhesive - being careful to keep your business card on side that's showing? d) What's spray adhesive? e) Print up some full color custom magnets with a photo of your pizzas that's good enough to eat with your deliver hot line number printed right on top of the anchovies? f) Print up some plain white magnets with your phone number on them. Obvious answer, right? print the full color magnets! Full color magnets printed from the new digital printing gear out there really look like - the real thing! You can almost smell the cheese and tomatoes! Makes you want to take a bite out of the card. In fact, several online printers offer custom full color magnets with custom magnet shapes - like bite marks! Take a look at http://www.my1stop.com/magnetContents.aspx for details!

Print Brain Quiz That Asks "How Many Plastic Card Printing Uses Are There, Really?"

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Print Brain is a quick-quiz that tests your printing knowledge. This time, we're seeing just how plastic the printing world is becoming. The quiz asks a simple question - but the answers will cause you to think. Here's the Print Brain question: How many different applications of full color plastic card printing has this blogger been able to identify? Possible answers: a) 1 b) 13 c) 23 d) 2,001 Before you can answer, you might want to think through the possibilities. Excited, here is the answer . . . b) 13 Here's the list we came up with with the help of http://www.my1stop.com/Plastic-Card-Printing.aspx: Gift Card Fundraiser Printing Gift Card Printing Key Card Printing Membership Card Printing Access Control Card Printing Insurance Card Printing Pre Paid Phone Card Printing Calendar Card Printing VIP Card Printing Loyalty Card Printing Luggage Tag Printing Business Card Printing Discount Gift Card Printing Have other applications to share - dare to challenge the 13 we listed? Post up your additions anytime .

Did You Know That Plastic Card Printing Is Not Done On . . . Plastic?

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Take the newest Print Brain test! Print Brain is a quick-quiz that tests your printing knowledge.   See if you can guess what full color plastic card printing is really printed on. If you know the answer already, I might guess that you are either: a) a chemist b) a printing or design professional in need of a break c) someone who buys plastic card printing - and who definitely needs a break! So what is full color plastic card printing actually done on? Got your answer? Write it down. Turn your paper over. No cheating . . . Take the newest Print Brain test! Print Brain is a quick-quiz that tests your printing knowledge. Plastic card printing is typically done on polyvinyl chloride, a thermoplastic (not a true plastic) most commonly known as . . . PVC! That's right. Before you start cutting up old pieces of white irrigation pipe to make gift cards from - keep in mind that the process for making a plastic card are a bit different than those of making a piece of backyard pipe! However, new composites are reaching the market. You can learn more about plastic card printing and emerging materials from http://www.my1stop.com where they stay on top of all things plastic cards! You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about PVC at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl_chloride.

You Have To Have A Membership Card To Get Inside

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Print Brain is a quick-quiz that tests your printing knowledge. Be warned -this one must be read through physchedllic glasses with traces of incense wafting in front of your monitor. How can a 70's flashback have anything to do with printing? Here comes your clue . . . No fair Googling the answer, either. Use your own grey matter for this one. Maybe you should learn more about full color membership card printing. You can check out http://www.my1stop.com/Plastic_Membership_Cards.aspx to learn more about membership cards. Give up? Here's the answer - spelled backwards to avoid cheating and to help those who actually wore their physchedllic glasses and listened to any Beattles album played backwards in the day: "sngis" by dnab cirtcele nam evif eht. Let me know if you need the answer spelled forward! Any other print in music questions out there . . send 'em in!

A Print Brain Quiz That Asks, What's In Your Wallet?

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Print Brain is a quick-quiz that tests your printing knowledge. You'll need a wallet. One with plastic cards? Are they yours - just kidding. Got your wallet? Ready for the quiz . . . Quick. What types of plastic card printing features are on the plastic cards in your wallet? No peeking. Just guess, quick! No, not credit cards - but - what kind of printing was used to print the plastic cards? How many of the plastic card printing features below did you come up with? The "grading" curve is provided below, too! Features list is compliments of http://www.my1stop.com who offers each of the plastic card printing features listed. Have fun . . . Plastic Card Printing Features . . . How many of these were on the plastic cards in your wallet - score 1 point for each one that you knew about before you looked at the cards and at the quiz. Honesty counts . . . 30 mil plastic card material Magnetic stripe Signature panel Full color printing Edge to edge (over the edge) printing Punching (holes in the plastic card) Photo Barcode If you got more than 4, you're probably a plastic card printing genius. If you had more than 4 cards in your wallet, I sure hope that they weren't all credit cards!

Can Your Print Brain Pass The High Low Challenge?

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Ever watch "The Price Is Right"? OK, I confess me, too. Remember the high -low game? You know, Bob Barker puts an item on a table with a price on the item and the contestants guess if the price is high or low? Here's a Print Brain quiz take-off on that very popular game show challenge: Ready for this? Here's item # 1. Item #1 is . . . 500, 9" x 12" full color presentation folders with printed pockets and business card slits on both sides. With aqueous coating. What do you think? Is the price higher or lower than: $2.50 each? Did you say higher? I am sorry, the correct price is only $1.30 each. Ready to try a another item? Here's item #2. Item #2 is . . . 250 8." x 11" full color brochures printed both sides on 100# gloss text with half fold. No coating on this item. Think hard now. Is the price higher or lower than: 81 cents each? Did you say lower? Oh, sorry. The correct price is a penny more, just 82 cents each. Here's you're last try for this round. Here's item #3. Item #3 is . . . 2500 3 3/8" x 2 1/8" gift cards printed in full color on both sides of a 30 mil plastic card. Includes signature panel. You can do it. Is the price higher or lower than 35 cents each? Did you say lower? Excellent. The price is lower at only 26 cents each. Thanks for playing the Print Brain "high low" game. You can independently verify the pricing used in Print Brain "high low" at: wation-Folder-Printing.aspx

Introducing "Print Brain"!

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Print Brain is a new little feature to our blog. Print Brain is here to check out just how much you really know about full color printing. It's a self-test, honor based thing. So, use at your own risk and enjoy. And hey, your Print Brain questions are always welcome! Just submit them to us, anytime. Ready to take a quick true-false quiz? Let's find out how much you really know about photo quality digital printing. Ready? This one is tricky. No, really, it is. Here goes . . . Question from Swammee: All full color digital printing is photo-quality. Answer: false Source: www.my1stop.com/News/2006/My1stop_06202006.aspx. Folders produced in high detail like 2400 dpi are significantly more attractive than the typical output at 600-1200 dpi Add your own question for the next blogger who signs on. Link to a source to back you up if possible. Let's keep focused on full color digital printing - just to keep some semblance of order. Add your question, answer and source below . . .

Is Your "Print-Brain" Up To The Line Screen Challenge?

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I'll bet your "print-brain" will struggle with this question. It's coming right up. Just a reminder that you, too, can be a famous "Print-Brain" quiz blogger. Just add your question below. Here's the latest "print-brain" question. Got your full color printing thinking cap on? What line screen would you need to print your full color 2400 images in to utilize the dpi/lpi capabilities of the newest breed of digital full color printing devices? Betcha can't even come close to the right answer! Here's a hint - line screens are measured in lpi (lines per inch). Ready to give it a try . . . Pick the line screen would you need to print your full color-2400 dpi images from the choices below: a) 300 lpi line screen b) 1200 lpi line screen c) 900 lpi line screen The answer? Check out this link for the lpi to dpi conversion tool you need. http://dx.sheridan.com/advisor/line_screen.html. To lazy to click the link? The answer is B. But do you know why? Can you imagine the color output at that dpi? That's about 5 times the typical full color digital output!