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What is flat foil and print plus flat foil?
What is print plus flat foil? (also called sleeking) The process includes printing an area of the press sheet and then applying foil laminate to that print area. Then overprinting the sheet with four-color printing. This allows four-color printing + foil without the expense or delay of traditional foil stamping. This can allow variable data foil on invitations which could be a unique product to allow you to grow your business or earn more margin on your design work. The big guys (Minted, Tiny Prints, Shutterfly) will have a tough time launching this in the near future. We've been trying...
Why don't we store credit cards anymore?
On our old website we had an integration with Authorize.net CIM. This allowed us to tokenize your credit cards so you didn't have to enter them each time. We think it is safe however, over the past several years there have been some customers who thought their credit cards were stolen on our site. And we don't believe it to be so but we can't prove otherwise. This certainly damages our reputation and we have decided we cannot risk this. We all remember this Target Hack
Why don't my cards and envelopes match? online printing
We know it can be frustrating when cards and envelope colors don't match. The reason is that envelopes are printed on three different types of devices depending on colors. These processes are Inkjet for black ink envelopes and laser for color envelopes. Cards are printed on HP Indigo technology. We run on the HP10000 and the HP7900. Both of these are state of the art digital presses. The Indigo presses use HP Indigo ElectroInks. Also the resolutions are different. The Indigos print at 812 dpi at 8 bit, addressability: 2438 x 2438 dpi HDI (High Definition Imaging) and the other...