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Some personal tips for personal postcard printing

By: gary maxwell
Date Added : August 10, 2011 Views : 28
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Do you want to create some personal postcards for a personal project of yours? Well, certainly printing postcards is not just for the realm of professional printing. Even you yourself, as a person can create your own custom postcards if you need to for a personal project or even a small business project of your own.

Before you start though, let me give you a few special reminders and pointers that will make your job a lot more easier (even if you are alone in this endeavour). Just go through the items below and you will know what you need to do.

1. Use those freely available templates – To make sure that you do not have difficulties with the postcard printing company as well as the postal service you should use those freely available postcard templates. Those postcard templates are of course set with standard dimensions and margin settings that allow your draft to pass the printing inspection for printers and the postal inspection for postal services. You will be doing yourself a big favour if you use these templates since printing and sending postcards will be a lot faster and easier with standard postcard prints, so make sure you use these. They are free after all.

2. Get professional photographs free – Personal postcards are extra impressive if you get professional photographs in your covers. Luckily for you, you can actually access professionally made, expensive looking photographs online. There are plenty of artists out there who display their high resolution, high quality photographs for free use on the Internet. You just need the right place to look for them. Websites like flickr.com, openphoto.net and morguefile.com are just a few examples of sites where you can get great photos for your personal postcards. Just make sure to read the creative common licenses for the proper attribution information.

3. Get professional fonts free – To make your personal postcards more customized, you should also try to get fresh new professional fonts for free. There are tons of free font websites out there and I am sure that there are a few specific fresh new font styles that you might like integrated into your own custom postcard design. Use those to make your postcard designs look a little bit different and original.

4. Use a few “home grown” resources – If you find yourself still a bit lacking in design skills or writing skills, you might want to try a few “home grown resources” to back you up in postcard printing and design. Today, you should always have that family member, friend or colleague that knows a bit about graphic design and other techie type stuff for desktop publishing. Try to ask them for a favour or even actually hire them for a small fee. Having some extra talent should help you add that extra professional polish to your personal postcards.


5. Print professionally with online help – Lastly, do not print your postcards on your own with your home or office printer. For the best results for your custom postcards, try to get online help. Go for an online printing company that has the equipment and the experience to print those full color postcards properly. You just need to choose the best material options and printing options and your custom postcards should be printed in a professional manner. This helps you create “homemade postcards” the actually look very professional.

Good! Now you do not have to be afraid of printing personal postcards on your own. With these tips, it should be easy for you to develop great looking custom postcards and have them printed with the same professional level quality as with other postcards.


Gary Maxwell is an artist focused on catalog printing. Born and raised in Colorado, He is currently a freelance for online designing promoting postcards.

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