Mistakes in Business Card Design

No doubt having business card is must for all, either a big business house or just an employee. An effective business card not only captures attention but also inspires people to know more about you and what you offer. So, all this increase the importance of business card design. Though we always read and hear about the important elements of business card design and even ways to improve business card design. But today i would like to put the most common mistakes made while designing business cards.

Miniature prints: Miniature print makes the card receiver unable to trace out whats printed on the card. This results in going of the business card into trash. This is really important that your business card print should be good size. Make sure your name, address and phone number should be in readable mode. As people are not going to spend so much of time and go through things.

Physical address: This is what you can never skip. Even though you have put up your contact address and website address or even email address. But physical address is must. So, make sure you always add your physical address to your business card.

Texture : Most people try to make their business card unique by using different texture. The concept behind this is to make the touch and feel good. But sometimes this create problem, like plastic touch business card makes it difficult to write something on it. Sometimes you need to give some extra information to the person you are giving your business card. But because of the texture you are unable to write anything.

Blank back: The important aspect is to make maximum use of your business card, don't leave your business cards back blank. Try put some message or just a map, make it more useful.

Hope you find this information interesting and helpful. And you are able to create a good business card using business card software.

Plustek Prepping Business, Film Scanners for CES

Plustek a renowed name as an image solutions provider having business spread all over world.Plustek manufacturer of world class scanners and other imaging products. Plustek is going to introduce new scanner in upcoming 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Las Vegas. They are going to show their two new compact small scanners for small business organizations and two film scanners. The MobileOffice D428 scanner is suitable for offices/home and the color duplexing scanner has 600-dpi resolution. This scanner has an amazing speed of scanning 28 page-per-minute.

Read full news here: www.pcmag.com
Plustek will introduce four new scanners at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month, including two compact small-office scanners and two film scanners for slides and negatives.

Google's latest lab experiment lets you send it photos for identification.

Google's new real time search feature, photo based search enables sending phots of business card, book cover, bar code from Android based smartphone to Google. It scans the image captured, analyzes and identifies. The information is further separated into fields. If you are using this application for business card, it puts all the information into fields and put in your google database. But there are some limitations of this application is the accuracy level, but still we know it will be enhanced by the geeks.

Read more about this here: www.computerworld.com - Computerworld - On Monday, Google announced, along with its new real-time search feature, a photo-based search it is calling Google Goggles (which is hard to say without -- sorry -- giggling). Goggles lets you send photos of a business card, book cover or even bar code from your Android-based smartphone to Google for quick identification and data manipulation.

Penning good content for your business card

Business cards have acquired the status of a most important aspect of ones identity. So, no one even moves out of their house without carrying their business card. Everyone is aware of the importance of business cards and the role they play in marketing and branding. Being the most cost effective tool, its designing and printing has also become quiet important.

Most of the people are putting in good amount of efforts in business card design and people are thriving for the best of business card designs. But only good design can not make us achieve the target. For making it more effective one need to focus on the content of the business card.Make a short message with effective words, focusing on your major business. The most important tagline should totally be focused on your major business or service or your skill. Try to create an impressive tag line. You mention minor things below it. If your major business is web hosting then focus on web hosting and write below in description of you do web designing as a minor thing. Your tag line should be about web hosting not web designing. Don't lose your major service, try to write tag line in consistent to the one used in other advertising mediums like newspaper, website, banners etc. Hope your able to get the basic idea about how to coin a good content for your business card.
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Microsoft unveils Office 2010 public beta

Microsoft has launched office 2009 beta version and trial version is available for public. People can use and report bugs and problems. They released this in annual Professional developer Conference in Los Angeles.

You can read in detail about this on computerworld.com : As expected, Microsoft today launched its first public beta of Office 2010, posting the preview for download on its Web site. In a keynote presentation at its annual Professionals Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Kurt DelBene, Microsoft's senior vice president of the Office business productivity group, announced the immediate availability of the Office 2010 Beta.

Quark unveils free online tool for small-business print jobs

Quark, provider of world class solution for publishing softwares helping large to small business houses. With their presence in publishing software field from more than 25 years, quark has set standards in automated multi channel publishing.

Read about the Quark's new free online tool here: http://denver.bizjournals.com/
Quark Inc. is moving into the business of producing small companies’ marketing materials and print-job ordering with a free online product it unveiled Thursday.

How to distinguish between different kind of business cards?

Business cards are all over here and we all are using them. Mostly people are not even aware of difference between business cards. But they can be distinguished as basic or conventional, non
conventional, pictorial, multi purpose business cards.

Basic or conventional business cards are the usual looking black and white cards. They are the most simplest form in which the stock used is white or creamy and they just have basic contact
information printed using black ink. The basic business card design is made following standard size and paper.

Non conventional business cards design do not follow the conventional size or the shape. Even the printing pattern is different , glitter and gloss is used to make the card look more of catchy and flashy. These type of cards are bit of expensive as compared to basic cards.

Picture business cards have image used in them,image maybe of the owner of the business. Sometimes its logo of the company or it may be of the product they deal in. Sometimes Using picture can be a better way of communication then words. So, a simple business card can be enhanced by using some image.

Multi purpose business cards are designed to cater more than one purpose. We can say this cards have the basic contact information along with some other things added to draw more of business. They can serve as discount coupon or an appointment reminder. People even get map printed on the back side to make it useful thing for the other person.

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