| Postcards for Marketing Postcards serve well keeping in touch with friends and loved ones who are far away. Moreover, this can also be used as a material for enhancing a business strategy or any advertising campaign. In the creation of a postcard design it is important to take into consideration the color, size and features that could be included in it. The careful amalgamation of these aspects will help in creating highly effective and eye-catching prints. Choices for Standard Postcard Size There are various printing companies operating to provide this kind of printed material as well as other advertising and promotional print. For the postcard production, each company uses different standard postcard size. Among the sizes they have are 4.25 x 6, 4 x 6, 5 x 8, 5.5 x 8.5, 6 x 9, 8.5 x 2.75 and 11 x 4.25. With these several standard sizes, customers will have a lot of options for their own postcard printing projects. If they require any other standard postcard size they will usually have to go for the custom designing and printing. Postcard printing companies have highly capable designers who will gladly provide their expertise in this field. |
Options for Postcard Production It has been tried and proven that materials developed din colored print are more effective than those that are only in the black and white print, so for postcard printing it is wiser to have in either in the four color print or full color print. As options, the customer can have postcards with full color on sides, wit full color in front and blank back or color front with a back and white back. And for these options, the companies usually favor the use of the 14pt gloss stock cut in the standard postcard size. Customers not only want appeal out of their printed materials, long-lasting quality or durability is also a prime criterion for them. So in order to attain this, printers also perform lamination or coating for postcards. For coatings the option postcard printers provide are aqueous, varnish and UV. For lamination they have gloss or matte laminate. |