Looking to learn business card layout

looking to learn business card layout. is there a tutorial?

Hello Jumpshotz
Here is a link
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/make-it-with-creative-cloud/creating-your-business-card/
Try using Adobe TV, it is a great resource with excellent tutorials.
TREX

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Hi, I love my 1315v and this is the first time I've had a problem with it. I'm trying to print out business cards, designed in Adobe Illustrator CS5 onto Avery Inkjet Business Card Stock #8376. Every time I print, it changes alignment. The image is the exact right size, and placed perfectly to line up with the perforations in the card stock but, each time I print, the images are placed in a seemingly random position. Sometimes they're at the top (margins be damned), sometimes they're just a hair or two off the mark.
I've got the latest driver (in fact, there hasn't been an update in a couple of years), and I've been searching all over trying to figure out the issue. I thought it might have something to do with printable space, but that doesn't seem to be it. I've tinkered with just about every setting in Illustrator, to no avail. I'm at my wits' end here.
Does anyone know what the problem is?

I have an HP Deskjet D1520, and I was having the same issue printing business cards. Avery Template 8869.
I have solved the issue for ALL HP printers that are having this issue.
I remove the top tab off the paper. Where is says "Side 1 / Side 2".
I then remove the top margin from the template. I Zero it out. In the page setup in MS word or what ever your using.
With the printer turned off <<<<<<<----printer has to be off. I manually feed the paper into the printer. So now the paper is offset the width of the torn off strip. I then set the printer to best setting. Also it seems to help to have the paper tray half full. "No idea why." I then hit print. After I hit print I turn on the printer. The printer thinks the paper is fully inserted....which it is.
The printer will warn that it is outside the printer are....ignore it, and it will be fine.
I have tried this on 4 HP Printers, and it has worked flawless. I hope this helps others. I was getting very unhappy to say the least.

I am looking for business card , iPhone , flyer mockups video tutorials

Hello ,
i am learning Photoshop and looking for business card , flyer , iPhone and other mockups templates tutorials to learn in depth , if any of you know please send me the link of the tutorials
Thanks

iPhone templates? Not sure what you mean by that. Photoshop is photo and image editing software.
Photoshop tutorials for beginners
http://design.tutsplus.com/series/photoshop-tutorials-for-beginners--psd-12643
Photoshop tutorials on Adobe TV
Learn Photoshop CC | Adobe TV
Free PSD Templates
http://www.freepik.com/free-psd
Nancy O.

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I have Pages 09 and I have created a business card using the template but can't figure out how to duplicate it to the other 9 spaces on the page. I am and sure I am going to look daft coz its only the click of a button but I can't work it out Thanks

I do the following: Hold down the command key and highlight all the items to be reproduced. Then hold down option and drag the items from the first to each subsequent card.

I modified the first business card in a template. Does anyone know how to get the other cards on the template to look like the first one without doing each individually? please and thanks!

I modified the first business card in a template. Does anyone know how to get the other cards on the template to look like the first one without doing each individually? please and thanks!

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Can someone help me in learning how to make business cards using pages

can someone please help me in learning how to make business cards using pages

You could jump start the process with an Avery MS Word 8-up business card template as a free download. Either version of Pages will digest it nicely. Once you load it into Pages, do a File > Save As Template.. , add it to Chooser, and give it your name choice. Both versions of Pages will remove the printer registration marks in all four template corners. The free LibreOffice Writer retains them.

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I am new to Pages and can not figure out how to create business cards that register and print in
an Avery form 8873 Business Card sheet. This should be so simple.
Please advise he simple trick.
Mike

Have you opened and used the Avery word template for that sheet from Avery's website?
Tight registration is always a problem with printing to a desktop printer. The paper just doesn't have an accurate paper feed.
It is always best to design your cards with generous tolerances so nothing vital gets trimmed off, especially when doublesided printing.
Peter

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From my cold fusion app I want to have a control (any adobe control) to lay out a design for a business card . Is there any control that I can out of the box? I would prefer to use a Flash control.
Thanks in advance.

Dear,
If you have ABAP team with you, an email to user SAP inbox will trigger from each transaction.
We implemented this for PR level for each 1200 individual user / management release authorities, which informs by an email about the status of PR. once the final release done based on purchase group - an email will trigger to central procurement department all responsible persons indicating purchase order awaiting.
NOW material rejection - reference to 122 and 102 movement is under study. Once any material rejected the system send email to procurement, stores personnel and management informing the material was rejected.
Similar, based on the presentations and indepth meeting held with ABAP and FUNCTIONAL teams, workflow can be trigger on each event (not sure the all processes you mentioned in your post). But I hope possibility exists.
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Printing of a logo and text on business cards, paper, etc.

Dear reader(s),
Let me introduce myself; my name is Matthew Hennessy from the Netherlands and I mostly PhotoShop, Illustrate for a hobby (for the last 5 years).
In the past 5 years I have learned a lot when it comes to designing, but this isn't enough. A few weeks ago my boss asked me to design a new logo and new text, with the intention of using it on business cards, brief paper and envelopes.
Now here comes the part you have seen coming, I really need to know a few things about the printing process, and the settings necessary to make a 'print ready' file. I have already done some research, but still some things are very unclear to me. If any answers could be given to the following questions, that would be more than appreciated!
Questions:
1. Crop marks - I have seen a lot of tutorials on the internet where people refer to 'crop marks', why are these necessary? What are they? What are they used for? How can I set the preferences and how can I see if I use the 'crop marks' correctly?
2. Trim marks - I have seen a few people talking about this. Are 'trim marks' the same as 'crop marks'?
3. Bleeding - this is something I really try to figure out, and already did my best but I'm not getting any wiser! Example given of my problem:
I'm planning to (when this comes to an end), order business cards, brief paper and envelopes on Vistaprint (Dutch site). The preferred size is 1. 90mm x 52mm (complete document) or 2. 87mm x 49mm (cut off).
What is the difference between these two sizes? I suppose this has something to do with the bleeding, but what?
Now this is what confuses me, and I don't think I'm the only one:
3.1. I made a new document in Illustrator CS5, with the 'complete document' measurements 90mm x 52mm (300DPI, CMYK). Do I need to input bleeding before I push ok?
3.2. I made a new document in Illustrator CS5, with the 'cut off document' measurements 87mm x 49mm (300DPI, CMYK). Do I need to input bleeding before I push ok?
4. Is there a checklist or anything to do this perfectly? As you can imagine I don't want to mess this up.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, e-mail contact would be great too: [email protected]
Thank you for reading, I will be around to look for replies! Thanks again!
- Matthew

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1. Crop marks - I have seen a lot of tutorials on the internet where people refer to 'crop marks', why are these necessary? What are they? What are they used for? How can I set the preferences and how can I see if I use the 'crop marks' correctly?
Forget so-called "Crop Marks." Crop Marks and Crop Region are Illustrator-specific terms. It's an Illustrator feature that creates a set of (grossly oversized) printable marks on the Artboard for the printing house to use as trim indicators and/or (depending on version) to define a region for output when you export the file in certain formats. Other programs in Illustrator's genre don't even have this feature because it's really not necessary. Historically, it was Illustrator's workaround for its lack of a proper bleed feature and single-page limitation. I never even use Illustrator's Crop Marks. If I want trim marks to print, I simply draw my own.
Trim marks is an industry term. Trim marks are short hairlines which align to the edges at which you want the paper to be trimmed after printing, but are placed outside the actual trim rectangular area so that they get trimmed away. In most projects destined for offset printing, it's a good practice to draw proper trim marks in the bleed area of the page. The print dialog also provides a Printer Marks feature that will cause trim marks (among other things) to print outside the Artboard. (You don't need to worry about that in this scenario.)
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2. Trim marks - I have seen a few people talking about this. Are 'trim marks' the same as 'crop marks'?
So as explained above, Illustrator Crop Marks is an Illustrator feature commonly used to draw trim marks. I don't use that feature. It wastes space.
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3. Bleeding - this is something I really try to figure out, and already did my best but I'm not getting any wiser! Example given of my problem:
Bleed is an industry term that simply means you want ink to print "right to the edge of the paper." That's not actually possible on a commercial offset press. So if the design requires "right to the edge of the paper" printing, you cheat: You print on a larger-than-final-size sheet, put trim marks to indicate the final size of the piece, and design so that anything that is supposed to "print to the edge" actually extends beyond those trim marks. Theoretically, if the physical processes of commercial printing were perfect, you could draw your design "just to" the trim. But paper expands and shrinks with humidity changes, Press sheets jog around a bit as they get picked up by the suction lifts and grippers and shoved and squished between the rollers. (It's a mechanical miracle that the process works at all, and has for over a century. A full-size CMYK offset sheetfed press is a marvelous piece of engineering.) After printing and drying the sheet is trimmed at the trim marks, and the artwork that extends beyond the trim marks is chopped off.
Typically in commercial offset printing, 1/8 inch of "extra artwork" beyond the trim is sufficient to allow for the inaccuracies of the process.
Now here's the thing: If you are working in the traditonal manner with a commercial printing house, you know the press size and sheet size that will be used for the project. You can do all kinds of things at the design stage to minimize unnecessary work at the printing house by "designing for the press sheet." For example, in the press houses with which I work, I would never deliver a business card project output file as a single-card image on a single-card-sized page. No conventional offset printer is going print business cards one-card-at-a-time on 3.5 x 2 inch sheets. They are going to "gang" (step & repeat) multiple images of the card on one press sheet.
Typically, I would know in advance the press sheet size that is going to be used and the necessary space for gripper and press sheet margins. I would set up the software page to the size of the press sheet and arrange multiple instances of the card in that space. I would draw my own trim marks for each card in the array. If the sheet size is such that it will result in alot of paper just going in the waste bin, I may design some other piece in the otherwise unused area (a bookmark or hangtag, for example) and thereby get an "almost free" second document out of the press run. If the cards is designed to be printed on both sides, I will often arrange the page to accommodate "work and turn" printing, wherein both sides of the card gets printing on one side of the sheet, the sheets are simply flopped over and run through the press again. That avoids the need for a second press setup.
But since everybody and his third cousin's nephew is now a "designer," many printing houses have set up "click & drag" printing solutions on the web. Such solutions make it "quick & easy" (not necessarily cheaper) for the neophyte and "idiot proof" for the printer by removing the above-described flexibility and designing "one size fits all" workflows. That's what you're chasing with the Vistaprint vendor.
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I'm planning to (when this comes to an end), order business cards, brief paper and envelopes on Vistaprint (Dutch site). The preferred size is 1. 90mm x 52mm (complete document) or 2. 87mm x 49mm (cut off).
What is the difference between these two sizes? I suppose this has something to do with the bleeding, but what?
In the Vistaprint .ai template for design-your-own business cards I just downloaded to see what you're talking about, they have the artboard set to accommodate a design with bleed. You don't have to design bleeding elements, but the space is there if you do.
The AI Artboard (page) is 90 x 52 mm. Think of that as your bleed area. If there are elements in your design that you want to "print to the edge" of the finished card, draw them all the way to the edges of the Artboard. The printer is, in effect, telling you that if you do that, then you will be providing enough "extra" artwork to accommodate the inherent variances in the printing/triming process.
The (grossly overthick) 87 x 49mm red rectangle is the trim. So it effectively is the "trim marks". It represents the final card after it is trimmed down to final size. That's the size your cards will be when delivered. That roughly coresponds to the 3.5 x 2 inch dimensions that are considered the norm in the US. I don't know about what's the convention in Europe, but assuming it is the same as in the US, that's the size you want the cards to be. Business cards that are even slightly oversized usually end up in the trash can because they often don't fit pockets in card-carriers or plastic sleeves.
The (grossly overthick) blue rectangle is the so-called "safe area". That's nothing more than a suggested "safe design margin" between your artwork and the trim. The idea is that you are supposed to keep any elements of the design that you don't want to risk getting "too close" to the edges of the final piece--or even getting chopped off by the trim--within that rectangle. Magazines and newspapers are also fond of providing "safe area" in their add space specs. I ignore them. I know what kind of visual "margins" I want in my designs and I know when I am risking getting too close to the trim. But an amateur designer may think it brilliant to "make a title as big as possible" and actually crowd text almost right up against the trim (in other words, poor design). Then he gets upset when the normal variance in the printing/trimming process causes the text to actually get cut on some of the finished pieces. By providing that rectangle, the printer is telling you "Don't blame us if some of your artwork is too close to the trimmed edge if you place that artwork beyond this rectangle."
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3.1. I made a new document in Illustrator CS5, with the 'complete document' measurements 90mm x 52mm (300DPI, CMYK). Do I need to input bleeding before I push ok?
3.2. I made a new document in Illustrator CS5, with the 'cut off document' measurements 87mm x 49mm (300DPI, CMYK). Do I need to input bleeding before I push ok?
In the "idiot proof" template that Vistaprint has provided, they are treating the Artboard size as the bleed, and the red rectangle as the trim. So there is no need for you to include trim or bleed marks in your design.
Just set up your AI document exactly as the template that Vistaprint provided. Better, actually use their document file and paste your artwork into it on the Layer named "Your Design". When arranging your artwork, leave the (poorly named) "Guides" Layer visible, but locked. Make any art elements (background fills, etc.) that you want to "print to the edge" of the finished card extend all the way to the Artboard edge. Keep all other design elements within the "safe margin" blue rectangle.
All this is explained, by the way, in the See Accepted File Types link on the Vistaprint site.
When done, delete the Layer named "Gudies." Deliver the file to the printer. I would not deliver the .ai file; I would deliver a PDF. If you insist on delivering as an .ai file, convert all text to paths (a practice I despise). If you deliver as PDF, simply choose File>Save A Copy... in Illustrator. In the resulting dialog, select Adobe PDF as the file type. In the next dialog, leave the top menu set to Illustrator Defaults, but set the compatibility popup to Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3). That should be fine.
JET

Creating Business Cards in PSE 5.0

I have been making some Business Cards in PSE for about the past couple of months. It has been quite a learning process along the way. I am by no means an expert at this. Either with PSE and in making business cards.
Basically I am making the core of my card or many times all of it within PSE, and then going to Publisher and inserting my PSE created file, formatted as a TIFF normally, right into a Blank Publisher Business Card template.
My question is regarding the original resolution of my card in PSE. Because when you use any Type within PSE, it's size is tied to the resolution of your image. I have been creating my images as 300 ppi. But when I add the text for the card on there, it's always too small. And if I try and enlarge the text size to make it look normal, then it seems I can't get things to fit within the safe printing zone. I can't seem to get a middle ground here.
Should I not create my basic image with a resolution of 300 ppi? Should I go lower so that the Text (type) will be more in line with a 72 ppi image? I am afraid to go too low with the resolution fearing that the graphics and text won't look to good when printed. Any ideas?
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I need to know how to do so

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Edit: Mark was much faster at typing how to make a print screen. I'll leave all of the below anyway.
How to make a screen shot of your workspace if on Windows...
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2. After you press the print screen key, go to the menu and select File<New...from clipboard. A large blank document will open.
3. Press Ctrl + V keys at the same time to paste. Alternately, you can do this from the menu bar...Edit<Paste. This will paste the snapshot you took of your workspace into the open document.
4. (Optional step) You can use the crop tool to cut away unnecessary parts of your screenshot if desired.
5. Next, save the document. To make the document more forum friendly...smaller in file size, I'd use file<Save for Web but if you just want to File<Save As...it's okay. Save in JPG format so you can upload to the forum.
For the camera icon, Mark means the camera icon in the post box that appears when you post or reply to a post when using the web forum. Mark posted a screen grab with the icon but I'll add one with a red arrow pointing to the icon you click to add an image to a post.
I always save any image I want to upload to this forum or any forum to my desktop as it makes it easier to find. A dialog will come up that says choose. Press it and navigate to your JPG image. It will list the location where you have the file stored on your computer. Press the upload button to add the image to the post.
Edit: I'm not sure why Mark has a "Browse" on his button and I have "Choose". Same difference...just select whichever option your button displays.

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In Pages '08, is there a way to change the business card template page view to a single card view, allowing me to create one card that would automatically display itself in all 10 positions when the layout is changed to multiple card view? This can be done with the old Appleworks program, but I can find no way to do this with Pages. It seems I have to choose a card template, modify one of the boxes with my info, then copy and paste it into the other 9 boxes. Is this correct? If so, it is a step way behind the Applewoprks method.

Yes it is a step backwards, but herre is the way to work with it.
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Adam (Long live AppleWorks)

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Hi everyone,
Please forgive me if the answer is here, but I could not find it.
I am using Windows 7 Home Premium and Outlook 2010. I’d like to add a Business Card (vCard) to be included with my signature but this also adds an image of it in my signature which I do not want.
Is there any way to create my signature with the vCard attachment but without the image of it? I found an article that looked promising, but I could never get it to work.
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Save your signature with vCard and exit Outlook.
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Save file and ready to use:
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Hi There:
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That is not a feature of iPhoto - suggest to Apple - iPhoto Menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback.
You need a layout program like pages or pagemaker or InDesign
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I'm really stressed after searching the web for a tutorial on how to create a business card in Adobe Illustrator CC. I already have the graphics done, but I just need to know the dimensions and what unit it is. I'm using a homemade kit for these business cards. They're Avery, and I've used the template provided by them but every time I use it, print it out the business card is too low, or high or even cut off right when I have them exactly in the template. The product number is 8373. ASAP assistance would be nice as I'd like to get this done.

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