Printing Tips

Create Canvas Prints: A Step-By-Step Guide

So, you want to create canvas prints of your artwork, or maybe you want to make prints of your family photos, but you don’t know how. If that’s you, then keep reading for a simple, step-by-step guide to UPrinting’s easy-to-use online design tool.

Date: 03/20/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments

Rolled Canvas Prints

Rolled canvas prints are perfect for professional and amateur photographers and artists. The canvas adds a professional looking touch and the rolled format gives you greater flexibility for framing. Rolled canvas is also easier and cheaper to ship than mounted canvas. It’s so cheap that we even offer free ground shipping on any rolled canvas order.

Date: 03/19/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | 2 Comments

Small Canvas Prints

Tired of being pinned down to standard sizes? With small canvas prints on rolled canvas, you can go from 8” to 55” in half-inch increments in width and from 8” to 100” in height. Now, that’s creative freedom and perfect for printing a range of high-quality canvas materials:

Date: 03/16/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | 1 Comment

How to tell a Good Online Printing Company from a Not-So-Good One

There are hundreds of online printing companies. But just because a print shop has a website and a 4-color press, that doesn’t make them good. When you’re shopping for an online printing company, keep an eye out for these 6 characteristics. If they don’t have them, keep moving:

Date: 03/09/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments

How to Design and Print Business Cards

Did you know that you can design and print Business Cards right on the UPrinting website? We offer two ways to do it – using a premade template or starting from scratch with an empty canvas.

Date: 03/06/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments

Business Card Printing Sizes

The standard business card is typically 2×3.5”, but that doesn’t mean you have to color within those lines. It also doesn’t mean you can fire up a 2×3.5” design and call it a day. In fact, there a number of business card printing size options and settings that can make or break your card.

Date: 03/05/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments

Why Business Card Printing Software Should be Banned

I feel pretty strongly about this, I think business card printing software should be banned. Here’s why:

Date: 03/03/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments

DIY Kid Room Décor with Canvas Prints

Instead of leaving your child’s walls blank or spending hours hunting down the perfect print, you can easily create a unique and kid-friendly space with DIY-designed Canvas Prints. Just create your own design, blow it up to the size you want and then have it printed on canvas and delivered, ready to hang.

Date: 02/17/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments

3 Green Business Cards Tips

Most of us, including our clients, are always on the lookout for ways we can make greener choices – from our biggest printing jobs to our smallest ones, like business cards. Here at UPrinting.com, we’ve compiled a few design choices you can make to make your business cards greener:
Use Recycled Stock

Date: 02/10/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | 1 Comment

Service Brochures: Must Have Elements

If you’re printing a brochure to market a service (rather than a product), your printing, layout and copy all need to reflect that. Here are the elements you’ll need to make it happen. If your space is limited, leave out or condense the ones that are starred.

Date: 02/06/2009 | Under: Printing Tips | No Comments