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Print Peppermint writes about several topics like Graphic Design, Marketing, Photography, Printing, and Branding. Don't know where to start? Start with our business card inspiration or our business card basics. If you like our posts, subscribe to our newsletter!
The Sheet-Fed Offset Printing Process
Offset printing is our bread and butter here at Print Peppermint. Whether we are doing 4-color process printing or 1 to 2 color spot color printing. We, of course, do quite a bit of letterpress printing and dabble a bit in digital printing sometimes. But since we are pretty busy and don’t feel the need to…
How to get started in Screen Printing – A Step by Step Tutorial
Although screen-printing is not really our core business here at Print Peppermint, we still love the heck out of it! Many of our team members, including Taro (our lead designer) have particular expertise in screen printing. Things like: hand-pulling screen-printed posters and color separations for apparel printing like T-shirts. In fact, Taro still consults regularly with…
Star-Trek Inspired Business Card Sample – Geordi La Forge
This is one of the business card examples from our free sample pack. Yeah, I know it cost one dollar but that’s mostly in order to prevent abuse on our site. Design So first I want to talk about design. Taro, our wonderfully talented lead designer chose a Star Trek theme for this particular piece but…
Local Artists 5iveFingaz File a Case Against Reebok and Dick Sporting Goods for Ripping His Design
5iveFingaz, a local artist, recently filed a federal case against Reebok and Dick’s Sporting Goods for supposedly using is T-shirt design without his consent. The case was filed last September 11. It claims that international brand Reebok stole 5iveFingaz t-shirt design Love More the Ever and print it on their shirts.The said t-shirts have been displayed…
Colorplan Paper Review
Here at Print Peppermint, we buy and sell a ton of paper… 🙁 sorry trees! And, we are really excited about this new paper series from Legion Paper called “Colorplan”. This family of papers contains: 50 meticulously-curated paper colors 25 textured embossings 8 paperweights Take a look at the video below, as Austin breaks out his…
Business Card Break Down – Episode 1
Today we are introducing a new segment to our blog called “The Business Card Break Down” duh duh duh… (dramatic drums). In each episode, we will do a brief overview of the client, the design of the piece, the print specs of the piece, and the digital files that were used to produce the card. This…
Archetypes: How to hand out your Business Card with Style!
There is a fine art to handing out your business cards. Some styles are driven by cultural, religious, even sexual influences. Not only does the paper, ink, design, and finishes of your card speak to the values of your brand but how well you execute the delivery of your card, the presentation, also plays a big…
Infographic – The History of Printing
At Print Peppermint, we love infographics and we love Printing…duh! So it felt only natural that we should combine our two loves into a groovy little piece on the history of printing. I mean where would we be without this fantastic concept that allows us to store and archive the knowledge and opinions of our civilization….
Glossy vs Matte Business Cards: Which is Right for You?
Networking is hard. Remembering everyone you meet at a networking event is even harder. Solution? Business cards. But, with so many cards floating around the room, how will anyone remember your business? The details matter to set your business card apart from the pack. The first decision you’ll make when getting a business card made is…
Sticker Marketing Benefits: 8 Reasons Businesses Should Promote With Stickers
Just because multiple social media platforms have taken over the world, doesn’t mean they’ve completely taken over the marketing world as well. Sure, there are many benefits to using social media for marketing and businesses should take advantage, but it’s important to keep in mind the benefits of offline marketing tactics as well. There are plenty…