In the past we looked at BusinessCards2.0 (digital business cards) and some seem to question how long the printed business card will stay around. Well, here is one case in point to just show that high-quality, full-color, printed business cards are not going anywhere fast; as a matter of a fact, a lot goes into the IP (Intellectual Property) and overall design in the branding process as well:

Merrill Bull Returns to Business Cards

Former Merrill Lynch investment bankers won a major concession from Bank of America Corp., as it agreed to reverse a decision preventing them from using the old Merrill bull logo on their business cards.
See full source article here: http://online.wsj.com/

Did you know Markzware can preflight your business card designs to ensure a proper and desired result? And we can convert and extract them as well! And staying within the focus of this post, here was a related link which was neat:

40+ Creative Business Card Designs that will Inspire You

The supposed Chinese proverb, “may you live in interesting times“, is perhaps true for those in  publishing (Newspaper, book and magazine publishers), printing and for that matter graphic design, as we read:

Condé Nast and Adobe collaborate on digital magazine app

Relax News

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Publisher Condé Nast and Adobe Systems are developing a digital-magazine application to be compatible with laptops, netbooks, smart phones, and upcoming electronic slate devices.

Wired magazine, which covers tech news and information, will be the first to adapt the app, which will produce full-color, high-resolution images to replicate the experience of reading a print publication with the convenience of the internet.

This collaboration will bring magazine content into digitalized form for devices available in 2010. The companies hope to create a technology that will be applied to the publisher’s other magazines and adopted throughout the industry.  Read more... (299 words, 1 image, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

Here is an excellent article on how designers and creators can better deal with their printing job providers called, “A Mistake Was Made–Kill the Printer!” Firstly, I learned of this via Linkedin.com from a post to the PrintPlant “Linkedin-group” via fellow member,  Bill Ruesch. (Who said social media was not useful?) I include the numbered points from this article on how to better work with your printer, which will hit home to many. One way to avoid problems is to preflight, using FlightCheck . Read on…

A Mistake Was Made–Kill the Printer!
The question of giving a supplier the boot comes up from time-to-time. Before doing something rash, like firing a previously reliable printer, you should ask yourself  some important questions:  Read more... (741 words, estimated 2:58 mins reading time)