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Printing insights, branding tips and packaging ideas from Angel Prints Sdn Bhd. Helping businesses print smarter and grow stronger.
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Understanding Barcodes: The Language of Modern Commerce
Almost every product we buy today carries a barcode. From supermarket groceries and pharmaceutical products to shipping cartons and industrial parts, barcodes help businesses identify, track, and manage items quickly and accurately. At first glance, a barcode may look like a random collection of black lines. In reality, it is a machine-readable representation of data. What Is a Barcode? A barcode is a visual coding system made up of black bars and white spaces of varying widt
Jun 73 min read
The Ultimate Graphic Design Cheat Sheet
What Is This Infographic About? This infographic is a quick-reference guide to the essential building blocks of graphic design. It helps designers, marketers, and printing professionals understand the key concepts needed to create effective visual communication. In Simple Terms It covers: 🎨 Colors – How colors influence emotions and work together. 🔤 Typography – Different font styles and how text spacing affects readability. 📁 File Formats – Which file types are best for p
Jun 71 min read
Carton & Box Artwork Guide
After reviewing thousands of artwork files over the years, we've found that most production delays usually come down to a handful of recurring mistakes. Common issues include important text or barcodes placed too close to the cut line, resulting in trimmed content; missing bleed areas that leave unwanted white edges after cutting; artwork supplied in RGB instead of CMYK, causing unexpected colour shifts during printing; low-resolution images that appear blurry or pixelated; a
Jun 21 min read
Perfect Bind Book - Meaning of Open Size & Close Size
Using the infographic above, Open Size and Close Size refer to two different stages of the book: 📖 Close Size (Finished Book Size) The Close Size is the final size of the book after it has been bound and closed. In this example: Width: 210 mm Height: 210 mm This means when someone is holding the finished book, the physical dimensions are: 210 mm × 210 mm Think of it as: "What size will my finished book be in my customer's hands?" 📖 Open Size (Flat Cover Layout) The Open Siz
Jun 12 min read
Paper Thickness Guide for Book Printing and Its Spine thickness
Many designs send to us with different spine sizes. For convenience please refer to the followings and the page grammage based on 100 sheets.
Jun 11 min read
The Differences between Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
by original author Mr Allbee Sabir (Founder of Graphics Tricks, Pakistan) One of the most common issues in graphic design isn't a lack of creativity—it's using the wrong tool for the job. I've seen designers spend hours trying to force software to do something it wasn't built for, only to end up with more work and less-than-ideal results. The reality is simple: every Adobe application has a specific purpose. When you use the right tool, your workflow becomes faster, cleaner,
What Is Print-Ready Artwork?
If you've ever worked with a commercial printer, you've probably come across terms such as "artwork ready" ." While these phrases may sound technical, they simply refer to the digital file that is ready to be printed. In the printing industry, artwork is the final production file—typically supplied as a PDF—that contains all the elements required for printing. This could be a brochure, business card, flyer, packaging design, label, logo, or even a simple text-based document.
Know Your Packaging First Before Production Starts
When a customer sends a supplier a simple request such as: "I need a box measuring 40 × 30 × 20 cm." it may seem straightforward. In reality, that single sentence leaves out most of the information required to engineer a packaging solution that performs reliably throughout the supply chain. To a sales representative, those dimensions may be enough to generate a quotation. To a packaging engineer, however, they represent only a fraction of the specification needed to ensure pr
The Differences between Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
by original author Mr Allbee Sabir (Founder of Graphics Tricks, Pakistan) One of the most common issues in graphic design isn't a lack of creativity—it's using the wrong tool for the job. I've seen designers spend hours trying to force software to do something it wasn't built for, only to end up with more work and less-than-ideal results. The reality is simple: every Adobe application has a specific purpose. When you use the right tool, your workflow becomes faster, cleaner,
What Is Print-Ready Artwork?
If you've ever worked with a commercial printer, you've probably come across terms such as "artwork ready" ." While these phrases may sound technical, they simply refer to the digital file that is ready to be printed. In the printing industry, artwork is the final production file—typically supplied as a PDF—that contains all the elements required for printing. This could be a brochure, business card, flyer, packaging design, label, logo, or even a simple text-based document.
Know Your Packaging First Before Production Starts
When a customer sends a supplier a simple request such as: "I need a box measuring 40 × 30 × 20 cm." it may seem straightforward. In reality, that single sentence leaves out most of the information required to engineer a packaging solution that performs reliably throughout the supply chain. To a sales representative, those dimensions may be enough to generate a quotation. To a packaging engineer, however, they represent only a fraction of the specification needed to ensure pr
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