7 Crafty Projects You've Never Tried with Your Printer

Having those nice customized art decors on your home feels so good to have but we sometimes thought that they're expensive and hard to do.  Well you can do it by yourself with your very own home printer.  You can print them on different materials aside from paper.  You can use napkins, tissues, gold foil,  wood, fabric, burlap and wax paper.  Just be creative and you'll open up great decor possibilities right in your own home.  Great bonding too when you do it with your kids.  Try it for yourself :)

7 Crafty Projects You’v Never Tried With Your Printer – An infographic by the team at StinkyInk.com

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Considerations In Buying Home and Business Printers

When you are working either in your own little home office or the real corporate office you will surely need a printer to see the results of your hard work. Our need for printers varies depending on our requirements, volume of work, field of business and how much we’re going to spend on it. There are several factors and tips on how to determine which printer is right for our family or for our business. 

Type of Documents

We should take note of the type of documents we normally print whether we need it for documents, pictures or various kinds of graphics. Others need a simple one for printing payroll, vouchers and other documents that can handle continuous forms. 

Functionality

Determining variety of functions is also very important as there are various printers that offer multi-function performance for our home and office needs. There is single-function printer that functions as a printer only and there are all-in-one printers that can be used not just for printing but for scanning, copying and sending fax as well. 

Speed

We must know how the printer can serve us better, faster and more efficiently by knowing how many pages it can print per minute or what we call PPM (pages per minute). If you’re working on large volume of printing like my company who makes proposals and project reports this factor is very important in meeting and beating our deadlines. 

Resolution 

Of course with all of the required specifications above one of the most important is the quality and resolution of the output printout. We should be able to know the highest resolution it can deliver for our documents and graphics. 

Ink and Paper

There are various printers available in the market and we can choose if we want to use inkjet cartridges which has smaller capacity or LaserJet cartridges which last longer and can be used for big volume of printing needs. On the other hand we can also choose a printer that can hold letter, A4 and legal size papers only or one that can print even up to A3 paper. This is usually required for design plans and drawings plotted on AutoCAD. 

Cost 

Printer cost matches up to its specifications so the better and more functions you want the more expensive it gets. It also corresponds on functionality and durability so for office use it’s advisable to invest on a laser printer which can give you valuable output and savings on every page you print. 

Well it all depends on your preferences, requirements and financial budget and we can always choose from other brands that offer affordable but quality printers. Important thing is you must look for specifications carefully, ask for expert’s opinion and request a product demo before buying your printer.

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Printing Solutions

We have participated in one of our client’s trade fair and before the event we canvassed for our corporate giveaways and printing companies for our tarpaulins and brochures. We asked for quotations for three different companies and we’ve chosen not the lowest price but the one who offered the best presentation for our company. They’re just a little bit lower than the lowest quotation but they offer more designs and fast services. They will visit the office as soon as you’ve inquired for their products and services which is why we got them for our suppliers. With regards to brochures we didn’t find any suppliers that appealed to our taste and requirements. Some companies quoted a very high price that we decided to print it in our own machine. 

For our future trade fairs and presentations we will search for a company that will give us a good deal for printing brochures and for some of our other printing requirements. Maybe we’ll consider online companies since they provide quality service at faster turnaround of orders like in Conquest Graphics which offer commercial quality printing at discount printing prices around the globe. As they say quality of products should not be sacrificed with pricing so this would not be a problem to them. They will just bill you for products and services you specifically ask and not for the ones that you didn’t. When you get their services you will not worry about the effect on environment because they promote green printing methods to help care for our environment. With their help companies will never worry about suppliers for brochures, business card, poster, invitation, booklets and other printing requirements.

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Need for Photo Printers

We have plenty of pictures ready for printing but I’m going to choose first from the duplicate shots before finishing the final list. It includes my daughter’s graduation from primary schooling and Mother’s day. If only I have one of those photo printers I’ve seen in one of my favorite tech stores I would have printed it myself. Several years ago I’m printing them myself but I realized that pictures should be printed perfectly on the right photo printer and not on ordinary printers only. Now if I want my family’s voluminous pictures to be printed I just sent it to my favorite international shops.

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