New York Printer and Online Printing pioneer 4OVER4.COM has launched a new WonderFoil business cards printing service for customers. 4OVER4 customers can now access WonderFoil business cards for amazing color choices and high grade, durable paper that makes a unique first impression and lasts longer. 4OVER4.COM provides digital and offset printing in the areas of card printing, poster printing, custom labels printing, vinyl decal printing, brochure leaflet printing, brochure printers service, brochure tri fold printing, brochures tri foldprinting, corporate signage printing, and other custom printing applications.

4OVER4.COM now offers WonderFoil business cards printing in 16pt Gloss Cover, UV-protected paper and sizes of 2″ x 3.5″. Quantities of between 500 and 25,000 prints can be ordered per time.

“WonderFoil printing stands out like never before because WonderFoil gives you an unlimited range of color choices coupled with 16pt high-gloss UV coating for products that are simply irresistible to behold,” says 4OVER4.COM Principal Taso Panagiotopoulos.

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Excerpt from Wedding Source:

I am always saying a wedding should be a reflection of the personality of the couple who are getting married and a good way to achieve this is not just through the choice of theme, but also by personalizing some of the details included. Check out the following ten personalized wedding ideas for your wedding day:

1. Personalized wedding favors:
One of the easiest ways to personalize your wedding is through your wedding favors. Some favors can be printed or stamped with your names or initials, whilst personalization can be applied to thank you tags, sticker print and custom labels.

2. Personalized wedding candles:
Whether you want them for your ceremony or to adorn your tables, personalized candles are a subtle way of adding your names to your wedding décor. Candles can be printed or have label printing attached.

3. Personalized champagne flutes:
Make your wedding toasts with personalized champagne flutes which you can then keep for use at every anniversary after!

4. Personalized wedding album:
From guest books to photographs albums you can have your memory books printed with your names and wedding date. Some photographers offer this as part of a package deal, whilst matching books can be bought from stationers and printed to order.

5. Personalized wedding chocolates:
If you are short of ideas for favors then personalized wedding chocolates are good choice. Some chocolates can be made with your names or wedding monogram on them but it is more usual to order them with custom printing labels.

From MinuteMan Press:

A new leaflet print has been issued by the Payments Council to help people over the age of 65 to prepare for the cost of fuel over the winter.

The Pay Your Way leaflet, produced in conjunction with support from Esther Ranzen printing services, is designed to help those over 65 to identify whether or not they could save money byswitching energy suppliers. The cold weather is responsible for over 30,000 deaths in the elderly each year, so it is no surprise that some real action is being taken to help prevent this. Esther Ranzen said:

“The winter can be a particularly difficult time for people financially. Christmas is coming, fuel bills are higher than ever this year and older people in particular are vulnerable to fuel poverty and a heightened risk of falling ill. But it doesn’t need to be a time for worry.”

The custom printing leaflet is available at Citizens Advice Bureau and more information is also available online. This is an example of how people’s lives can be changed and even saved using leaflet and flyer printing.

Chesterfield is a town that is already putting plans in motion to help save lives in cold weather this winter. The NHS is working to ensure it is prepared to cope with extra demand due to more people falling ill in cold weather. Thanks to measures like this one and the Pay Your Way leaflet, many unnecessary deaths will hopefully be prevented this winter.

Ralph Stenzel has been fascinated with Galveston County history for years and has written a few books on some of the county’s historical spots.

The latest publication is a bit different as it looks at Texas City’s history through postcard printing.

About 15 years ago, Stenzel, who is the mayor of Santa Fe and the vice chairman of the Galveston County Historical Commission, started collecting postcards from the various cities in the county. He was surprised at how many Texas City post card printing results there were.

“I didn’t know there were so many out there,” he said. “There are 322 cards featured in the book and I found six more after publication.”

Stenzel told friend Jesse Ponce about the collection of cards he had, and the idea to feature them in a book to be published in time for the city’s 100th birthday this year was born.

“He saw how interested I was in the Texas City postcards and how much print postcard work was done, said we needed to do a book together,” Stenzel said of Ponce, the former president of the Texas City Historical Association and local historian who collected much of the information featured on historical markers throughout Texas City.

Ponce died in 2010 just as he and Stenzel were talking about getting the book together. His passing is what convinced Stenzel the book needed to be done.

For some, it might be unusual that a city like Texas City, that isn’t a major tourist draw, would have so many postcards. Stenzel credits the wealth of the cards to the military encampments that were in Texas City in the early 1900s and the 1947 Texas City Disaster.

“If it weren’t for the military and the explosions, there wouldn’t be so many postcards,” he said.

The collection in the book begins with card printing done in 1893 and up through the end of World War II.

Generic postcards that bear no resemblance to Texas City at all are featured in the book. A few have mountains in the background or apple tree lined roadways with the city’s name printed at the bottom.

A lot of the collection are “real picture postcards,” which are images people would take themselves and turn them into postcards to mail, Stenzel said. Some of the real picture postcards are those from the 1947 Disaster as well as from the Texas City Dike.

Postcards with messages had been created, used and posted by individuals since the creation of postal services. One of the earliest know picture postcard was a hand painted design on card, posted in London. So, this is so easy, get a great design for yours and start making things differently.

Get your postcard at 4over4.com and start working with the online printing authority.

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If you choose postcards to be part of your advertising products, you will be adding that extra pull that every possible customer needs to point their attention to your product, business or company. Specially now that you many others like you decided to open up a company or a business, with a great postcard you will make the customers choose you.

If you need some postcards samples to get inspiration or to print your own, you can get online with 4over4.com, the online printing authority.

Remember always to keep the environment, you can always use 4over4.com´s green printing service.

Since their conception in 1840, postcards have played an important role in the way people communicate, not only socially but also for business.

The first and most known use of postcards started when better machinery was built and photographs were added to them, thus giving people the chance to share with loved ones the places the visited during business or pleasure trips. But there was something ackward about the first postcards, contrary to the ones you know today, those didn’t had a space to write on. You could only add a stamp and the recipient’s address. Nothing else.

It was until 1907 that the first divided postcards appeared. They came mostly from Germany and they were just like the ones you know today: a line diving the backside right on the middle allowing the sender to write a short message on the right while setting up the stamp and the recipients information on the left one.

So, we reached the point when also photochrome (postcards with photographs) appeared on the market. It’s what is know as modern era for postcards. These lead to postcard use for business. Owners noticed that it was easy to send a postcard with logo or promoting a sale or a specific product.  All they needed to know was to  whom they wanted to send them. Then wait for people to come.

But that’s a way that will get you results in a moderated period of time. But there’s another way that will allow you to get faster results, and that is, to add something on the postcard that will make people come to you, a reason, let’s say, a survey that will give the customer a certain percentage of discount when returned to the stored filled. Or simple make the postcard turn into a discount card (maybe not all the card, you can set a specific part of it to be ripped or cut).

Another idea is to make the customer bring the card back and get an item free if another is purchased. This will serve you in two ways: 

a. You’ll get a faster response from the people you sent it to.

b. You’ll be able to measure how good the strategy worked for your business (see how many cards you got back vrs the ones that were sent).

So, as you can see, business cards are a powerful and cheap tool to use on your business regardless of what you do.