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Postcards are perhaps the most cost effective means of promoting your company and the products and services your company offers to your prospective customers. The biggest advantages of postcards are two ‘C’s - Cost and Convenience.

But the essence of any promotional campaign is the reach and the penetration level to the targeted segment of the market. The quality of the printed postcards plays a very important role in that. It is needless to mention that quality output depends on the quality inputs and the processing of the inputs. Thus, postcard-printing machine is one of the key factors, which determine quality of the postcard and the success of the campaign as well. You may have selected the best of designs and paper on which the design is going to get printed, but if the printing machine is not capable of printing high-resolution graphics then the end result may lead to disappointment.

In the past, postcard printing was done mostly on offset presses but as technology advanced they now use digital presses. These newer presses are more flexible and can provide you with more options without sacrificing the quality of the printing process. There are a variety of design templates for you to choose from and the program supports merging your mailing lists with the design for the final print.

Today, there are quite a few digital printer manufacturers who offer different features and attachments in their digital presses. Global leaders like hp, Canon, or Kodak produce machines capable of delivering high-quality prints. These machines have sophisticated systems for paper transfer and printing. The entire operations are controlled electronically via a control panel.

Gloss, matte and pearl finishes are used to print postcards and these come in a variety of thickness too. Most machines can print A3-sized paper. 4000 sheets of A4 sized paper can be printed in an hour using four different colors. Black and white printouts use A4 sheets also and the quantity per hour is 16000 copies.

The Internet can be used to download your postcard design and by using the control panel you can view the output on the monitor. Being placed in the printer queue one right after the other is a way to prioritize printing jobs.

If you are looking for a quick turnaround time when it comes to printing your postcards, some printing machines can print on both sides of the postcards. The most powerful of all printing features is the variable data. They have the ability to create customized and unique postcards. For this reason, digital printing is overtaking the marketplace when it comes to postcard printing.

In order to give the printed postcard a shape to match the style of the design the postcards are cut and trimmed. In addition, when adding other affects like UV varnishing, embossing and leafing, these procedures will be done in another area of the printing process. Most people prefer digital printing for short jobs and still like to use the offset printing method for longer print jobs.

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