subject: No More Mistakes In Poster Printing by:Janice Jenkins [print this page] Do you want to make no mistakes when you print posters? While perfect poster printing is an ideal most of us can only really aspire for, it is very possible indeed to at least get close to that ideal. As long as you are mindful of your design and you are careful with your options in poster printing you can at least have no more mistakes when you produce your color posters. To achieve this, you must know how to make things close to perfect. In this article, I will share with you 7 great tips to make things almost perfect for poster printing.
1. Make sure your goals are satisfied with your poster design
To make sure your poster design is perfect; you have to check if your poster goals are satisfied with your current design concept. This means checking if the right message and image is projected in the design. Can people in fact understand what you are trying to say? Does your design clearly invite people to buy something? Does it invite them to see something? Are the concepts clear or are they hazy and hidden too much in artistic indulgence? By checking if your goals are clearly satisfied you should be able to see early on if your poster will work perfectly.
2. Check if all your printed information is correct
Of course, you have to make sure that everything you print is correct. Typographical errors and design errors are facts in poster printing and you cannot really do away with them completely. As long as you always check all the printed information though you can minimize this occurrence and prevent people from learning the wrong information from your posters.
3. Test always if you get the right reaction from the audience
You should also be a little scientific in poster printing and test the reaction of audiences to your posters. Before your initial release, try to get a few people to look at your color posters and tell their opinions about it to you. It is good to have some initial feedback with a design so that you can readjust things that you didn't notice were bad. This should make your posters better and more effective before the main poster printing begins.
4. Print in full color with the best quality
Color is a vital ingredient in making posters perfect. An audience will always appreciate full color posters better than the more subdued kinds out there. Color posters bring out more intense reactions and of course they also display your images clearly and with better emotional impact. So to make your posters close to perfect, always print in full color.
5. Choose only the best materials
Materials-wise, you should of course choose only the best. Especially for outdoor posters it is important to choose very moisture resistant and dirt resistant poster materials to prevent your posters from deteriorating quickly. Try to also use thicker paper stocks so that they are more resistant to folds and other physical abuses.
6. See if your poster can fit into the places that you want
In terms of poster dimensions, the perfect poster for you should have the appropriate size that fits into the locations where you want them to be placed. So scout around the areas where you want your posters to be posted and see what is the biggest poster dimension that you can place in them. This should be your basis for the dimension of your own custom poster.
7. Triple check everything
Finally, before printing, always triple check every single detail that you have decided upon. It pays to check three times since there is always a chance that you or any of your staff could have looked over something important. This final quality assurance check should make sure that your color posters will be close to perfect once they are printed.
So those are the seven tips to make your color posters close to perfect. While perfection can be an unattainable deal, it should be very easy to get close to it as long as you are serious about your poster printing.
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Janice Jenkins is a writer for a marketing company in Chicago, IL. Mostly into marketing research, Janice started writing articles early 2007 to impart her knowledge to individuals new to the marketing industry.
