CMYK vs. RGB Color for the Design of Your Printed Products

If you weren’t born in the year 2000 or later and acronym-overloads tend to make your head spin, you may be interested in a breakdown of two popular abbreviated terms in the printing world: CMYK and RGB.

Both CMYK and RGB are acronyms that stand for modes of color use in design and in printing. CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (the people who came up with the acronym used “K” instead of “B” for black to avoid confusion with the “B” for blue in RGB), whereas RGB represents Red, Green, and Blue.

5 Business Card Design Ideas

A stand-out business card can capture people’s attention long enough to inspire them to actually call you. There are no stats available on responses to cool business cards vs. lame business cards, but as pros in the printing business, we constantly get feedback from clients who see a higher response rate when they put more thought and creativity into their business card design.

Here are a few easy-to-do design ideas to get you started on improving your card design.

1. Print the design on the front of your card backwards on the back.

Not only is this one of the easiest design tricks to use (All you have to do is “flip” your front design in Photoshop, and wa-la! You have your back design.), but it’s guaranteed to inspire lingering looks. If your prospective client catches a glimpse of the back of the card first, he or she will first take a longer look to try to make sense of it, and then flip it over to check out the front. That prolonged attention to your card is likely to plant a nice healthy seed in his or her head that could easily lead to a follow-up later.

Win Free SILK Lamination Business Cards with Spot UV from EliteFlyers.com

Thank you to all the contestants. Stay tuned for our next giveaway which takes place Aug 31st 2012.

We are happy to announce the winners to our first contest where 4 winners win
1000 – Free SILK Lamination Business Cards with Spot UV Gloss

Contestants names were written on a small sheet of paper. 1 time per each entry and placed into a drawing where we selected 4 winners.  And the winners are are.

1. Nancy Bobbert  @1CrazyMomma
2. Will McCole @Egare
3. Howard House @mhowardreviews
4. Edward Shult

Again, We thank everyone for taking the time to enter.

Till next time!

EliteFlyers.com

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• Entry #1.  Leave a comment below and let us know how you would use your new business cards.
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Give a Great “Elevator Pitch” to Go with Your Business Card

“Concise.” It’s arguably one of the greatest words in the English language. Its definition is “expressing or covering much in few words.” That’s a beautiful thing.

And it’s what you should strive for when you make the elevator pitch that should accompany your handing out your business card. An elevator pitch should take no longer than an elevator ride – somewhere around 30 seconds. That’s all you should need in order to tell an interested party what it is that you do, and why you’re great at it. Whew! Here’s how.