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M

M is short for magenta in the four-color printing process.

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Magenta

Magenta is one of the subtractive primary colors used by PsPrint in process printing. It is commonly known as"process red."

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Magnets
Magnets

Custom Magnet Printing

  • Standard magnets are great for giveaways, events and fridge calendars — all on a 16-point magnetic paper with optional glossy UV coating
  • Car door magnets offer The customers an affordable way to brand their vehicles in two sizes on a heavy-duty 17-point magnetic vinyl

Our standard magnets are available in three sizes, all printed on a strong 16-point paper. If The customer is looking for extra impact, suggest adding an optional high-gloss UV coating to make colors really pop.

Car door magnets are available in two sizes on a super-strong 17-point magnetic vinyl stock. We include a high-gloss UV coating to protect the magnet from the elements. Available in quantities starting as low as one piece, suggest that The customers try them.

Magnet artwork files can be finalized quickly for online printing with our free magnet layout guidelines. If a custom shape is what The customer is looking for, such as rounded corners or more unique shapes, contact us for custom printing features. The possibilities are almost limitless.

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Mail Order
Marketing Products

Print high-quality marketing products, including brochures and flyers

If you want to offer The customers top-quality print marketing materials, delivered on time and at an affordable price, try PsPrint.

PsPrint uses state-of-the-art commercial printing presses from Komori, HP and Heidelberg and calibrates them daily for color that's bright, sharp and accurate. Of course, there's more to great printing than just great equipment — you have to know how to use it. PsPrint’s plants are staffed by experienced commercial printing and color professionals who are committed to getting your job printed right the first time.

What's more, we back up every job with our 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee. If you're not 100% satisfied with your printing, simply call Customer Service within 30 days, and we'll reprint part or all of your order. In some cases, we may refund the full price of the product. You can read the full terms and conditions here.

Need your print marketing materials in a hurry? At PsPrint, many of our products, including brochures, flyers and die-cut stickers, are available with same-day and one-day super-rush printing. To save even more time, we automatically print your products at the East Coast, West Coast or Midwest commercial printing plant that's closest to you.

For top-quality print marketing materials at affordable printing prices place your order on .com today.

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Mask

Mask is the process used to prevent light from reaching part of an image, therefore isolating the remaining part.

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Mbps

Mbps is abbreviation for megabits per second.

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Meet & Learn
Megabits per Second (mbps)

Megabits per second or mbps for short is the speed by which DSL or T-1 line can transfer files to PsPrint via the Internet. For example, a 1M DSL line transfers files to PsPrint at 1 mbps.

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Megabyte (MB)

Megabyte or MB for short is a unit of measuring digital information which equals 1,024 kilobytes or 1, 048,576 bytes.

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Memo Pads
Memorial Day
Menus
Menus

Custom Menu Printing Services

  • Premium Menus, are printed on top-shelf paper stocks, including cream and bright white linen paper or a smooth-finish brown kraft stock
  • Standard Menus, are printed on text weight papers with optional lamination, ideal for takeout or casual dining

If you are looking to get your restaurant really cooking, then you need high-quality menus.

Your patrons will equate the quality of your food with the quality of your menu, so it pays to get your menus professionally printed on quality paper stock. Our premium menus are printed on the best menu paper in the industry, including smooth, light brown kraft paper stock, cream linen and a brilliant white linen. Here’s some food for thought: Our premium menu paper stocks are comprised of 30% post-consumer waste, so your diners will know that you not only care about food, but the planet as well.

Menus are not just for restaurants. They are perfect for wineries, breweries, bars, salons and day spas. Plus, you can create your own custom menus for weddings, baby showers, holiday meals and other special events such as retirement dinners and anniversary parties.

It’s so easy to create your menu design for online printing using our free menu layout templates. If you are looking for a completely unique menu, call our custom printing team for all our options.

 

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Mockup

Mockup or comp is a piece that is handmade by a graphic artist to show others how the finished printed piece will look. It generally will be folded and bound the exact way the final piece will be done in production.

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Moire

Moire is an undesirable pattern that appears when two or more screen patterns are placed over one another. Moire may be caused by misalignment, incorrect screen angles, slipping or slurring.

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Mommy Cards
Mother's Day
Mounted Posters
Musicians

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Negative

Negative is a reverse of an image created when processing film. The light and dark parts of an image are tonally reversed from the original copy.

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New Year's Day
Newsletters
Newsletters
Nightclubs
Nonprofit - Organization, Association, Society
Nonprofit Mailing
Nonprofit Partnership
Nonprofits
Note Pads
Notepads

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Offset Lithography

Offset lithography is a printing process where the image prints by transferring ink from a plate to a rubber blanket that deposits the ink onto the substrate instead of directly from plate to paper.

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Offset Printing

Offset printing refers to offset lithography, which is a printing process where the image prints by transferring ink from a plate to a rubber blanket that deposits the ink onto the substrate instead of directly from plate to paper.

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Online Tutorials
Orange
Oval
Oversampling

In computer graphics, oversampling or anti-alisasing is a software technique for addressing alisasing issue. Anti-aliasing reduces the prominence of jaggies by surrounding the stairsteps with intermediate shades of gray (for gray-scalling devise) or color (for color devices). Please note that although anti-aliasing may reduce the jagged appearance of the lines, it also may make the lines appear fuzzier.

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Page
Panel

Panel is one page of a brochure on one side of the paper. A half folded brochure has four panels; a letter folded brochure has six panels; and a z folded brochure has six panels.

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Panel Response Cards
Pantone Matching Systems (PMS)

Pantone matching systems or PMS for short are the most popular color matching systems used in the printing industry. A true PMS color is defined by a mixture of inks that will provide a specific color.

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Parties
Partnership Programs
PDF

PDF is abbreviation for portable document format.

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PDF
Perfect Bind Booklets
Perfect Binding

Perfect binding is a bindery method where all pages are trimmed to a single sheet. They are clamped together and a cover is wrapped around the spine. The pages are attached to the cover using and adhesive.

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Perforation

Perforation takes place on a binder machine, creating a line of small dotted wholes for the purpose of tearing-off a part of a printed matter (usually straight lines).

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Pet Stores
Photograhers
PhotoShop Document (.PSD)

PhotoShop document or .PSD for short is a file format for documents created and saved in Adobe Photoshop as layered images, which makes editing different parts of an image at a later date far easier. It is the only file format supporting all available image modes (Bitmap, Grayscale, Duotone, Indexed Color, RGB, CMYK, Lab, and Multichannel), guides, alpha channels, spot channels, and layers.

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Pink
Pixel

Pixel is short for picture element. Pixel is the smallest unit (point) of an image displayed on a computer screen. The quality of an image, usually expressed as"image resolution", depends on the number of pixels per inch that make up the image.

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Pixels Per Inch (PPI)

Pixels per inch or PPI for short is a measurement of how many pixels can fit into one inch. The higher the number of pixels, the sharper the image will be.

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Plate

Plate is a metal sheet carrying an image to be reproduced using a printing press.

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Play Date Cards
PMS

Abbreviation for pantone matching systems.

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Pocket Folders
Political Campaigns
Political Campaigns
Portable Document Format (.PDF)

Portable document format or .PDF for short is a universal file format developed by Adobe Systems to preserve all fonts, formatting, graphics, and colors of any source document. PDF allows any file to be read by the Acrobat reader regardless of the hardware or software platform on which the file was created.

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Positive

Positive refers to the image created when film has been exposed. The image contains dark and light values as well as color.

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Postcards
Postcards

Custom Postcard Printing Services

  • Standard postcards come in an array of sizes, with several premium paper choices and optional direct mail services to deliver The customer's piece
  • EDDM postcards use the USPS size requirements for the Every Door Direct Mail® service, perfect for sending larger postcards at a great price
  • Ultra postcards are the thickest, most luxurious cards on the market-add an eye-catching stripe of color with our unique inside core

Our standard postcards are available in a variety of sizes on several high-quality paper stocks, including our super-thick 16-point paper and our smooth 15-point velvet paper. You can also use our direct mailing services to have postcards delivered to a list of addresses.

If The customer is looking to take advantage of the new Every Door Direct Mail® service offered by the USPS, which allows them to send large-format postcards to the neighborhoods of their choice at a very reasonable price, try our EDDM postcard printing. Our EDDM postcards are specifically designed to meet the size and bundling requirements from the USPS.

You can prepare final postcard design files easily for online printing with our free postcard layout guidelines.

If The customer is asking for a postcard with a little extra flair, be sure to contact us for custom printing options, including attention-getting  die cut or foil stamping options.

For samples of our most popular products and stocks, be sure to get your free sample kit.

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Posters
Posters
PostScript (.PS)

PostScript or .PS for short is a software language for printing that describes fonts, images and graphics as mathematical expressions that do not require fonts or other dependent files.

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PPI

PPI is abbreviation for Pixels Per Inch.

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Preflight

Preflight is the procedure used by PsPrint to make sure that client's digital files are correctly prepared for production.

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Premium Flyers
Premium Menus
Presentation Folders
Presidents Day
Presorted First Class Mail

Presorted first class mail is the process of preparing and sorting mail to qualify for reduced first class postage rates. The lowest first class postage rates are available if PsPrint can sort and automate addresses in your mailing list(s) and if you submit artwork that meets PsPrint's mailing specifications at:https://www.psprint.com/layout-templates/direct-mail/.

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Presorted Standard Mail

Presorted standard mail or bulk mail is the process of preparing and sorting mail to qualify for reduced standard postage rates. The lowest standard postage rates are available if PsPrint can sort and automate addresses in your mailing list(s) and if you submit artwork that meets PsPrint's mailing specifications at:https://www.psprint.com/layout-templates/direct-mail/.

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Press Layout

Press layout or ruleup is a drawing that shows how a printing job must be imposed using a specific press and sheet size. It shows where pieces will be cut, perforated and folded.

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Primary Colors

Primary colors are the colorants of a system used to reproduce the colors for the entire reproduction. Cyan, magenta, and yellow are subtractive primary colors while red, green, and blue are additive primary colors. The substractive colors along with black are used in four-color printing process used by PsPrint.

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Print-Ready Files

Print-Ready files are digital artwork files that are 100% ready to print, requiring no additional adjustments by PsPrint other than preflighting and standard prepress work. Before submitting your digital files, you should feel free to review our file preparation guidelines at:http://www.psprint.com/helpcenter/preparing_artwork_files/index.asp

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Printing Techniques
Process Color

Process color is using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in various combinations to create all other colors.

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Programs Overview
Proof

Proof, also known as hardcopy proof, is a close representation of the final printed piece provided by PsPrint. A proof is provided to predict results on press and record how the final printed piece will appear in terms of color, layout and accuracy. Production does not begin printing the final piece until the proof has been approved by the client.

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PS

PS is abbreviation for PostScript.

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PSD

PSD is abbreviation for PhotoShop.

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PSD
Psprint
Public Relations
Public Relations Agency
Purple