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Gamma Creative

info@gammacreative.net (Alex Atkinson) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:29:53 -0800

Gamma Creative - Offering a Variety Graphic Design and Prepress Services at Affordable Prices

Gamma Creative is your one-stop shop for all your graphic design and printed media needs. We provide many options that will help you through your design project, from start to finish, at a price you can afford. Instead of paying lots of money to a graphic design agency, look at through our portfolio as well as our extensive selection of webpage and brochure templates. These examples will help you get a feel for what you are looking for in terms of your design preferences. You can hire us for a single project as well as multiple assignments. In both cases, we offer an outstanding solution of graphic design and prepress services.

In order to get a feel for how we can best serve you, see some of our sample services and statements. You will quickly see that Gamma Creative offers as many solutions for graphic design services as any graphic design studio, but at prices you would pay to a sole graphic designer. Costs for a graphic design studio can be very high, but with us, you pay only for what you need. As the services we offer, including prepress and graphic design, are charged per hour, you do not need to overpay for a project that only takes a short amount of time. We can accomplish a great deal of layout, formatting, and other tasks in a very small time frame, making sure that we provide great service at an affordable price.

In addition to design and layout offerings, Gamma Creative also offers a wide range of prepress services. We make sure that your files are ready to be printed and that they come out exactly how you had envisioned. Just some of the ways that we accomplish this is by producing press compliant PDF files and converting all unacceptable files, such as MS Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint to print-ready PDF files. Also, we convert Macromedia Freehand files to Adobe Illustrator, edit PDF with Enfocus Pitstop, and convert CorelDraw files to print compliant PDF versions.

As you can see, our wide variety of services is aimed at producing high-quality, professional web and print media. Whether you need business cards, brochures, calendars, or web pages, we can help you every step of the way, achieving the exact look you desire. You do not need to go with an expensive graphic design agency. Instead, we at Gamma Creative, offer you design studio solutions at individual graphic designer prices, making great design and professional printed materials accessible for everyone.

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Professional Printing Services

info@gammacreative.net (Alex Atkinson) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:27:48 -0800

Professional Printing Services - What They Have to Offer

As the majority of the population does not have extensive experience in graphic design and printing, using prepress resources before sending your project off to professional printing services is absolutely essential to producing top of the line materials. Although some people might think that designing their brochures, postcards, and other printed media is all that needs to be taken into account when sending it off to the printer, this is not the case. There are file conversions, size modifications, and other types of formatting that needs to be done correctly in order to result in the look you are after. Luckily, prepress services take care of all of this for you.

As those offering prepress services have extensive knowledge about how to modify and edit images and text in order to translate it properly to your finished material, you no longer need to worry about how to make these changes or that your finished product will not come out as you had hoped. Knowing that there are experienced professionals taking care to properly format your files and designs then allows you to take advantage of all that professional printing services have to offer. With great prices and a wide selection of mediums, it is now possible for virtually everyone to get their own well-designed, professional-looking printed materials.

Professional printing services offer many great options at very affordable prices. By utilizing offset printing, you get a consistent, high image quality on every item, without going over budget. Some of the choices that these services offer are brochures, great quality posters, custom calendars, business cards, labels, postcards and more. There are also some great deals and incentives being offered for many of these services. Some of these discounts and promotions include free business cards, free shipping on orders over $50, and 20% off brochure printing.

In addition to these incentives, affordable prices are available for all types of printed material. For example, you can get 500 postcards as low as $55. Additionally, you can find full color brochures starting at $162. These low-costs make this kind of professional printing accessible for everyone. Whether you are making your own personal materials, promoting your business, or are getting the word out about a special event, you can be sure that your individual projects will come out professionally and on-budget. Also, with a quick-turnaround, you can also rest easy knowing that your order will arrive on time, whenever you may need it. Therefore, professional printing services can take care of all of your printing needs worry-free.

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Ready-To-Go Templates

info@gammacreative.net (Alex Atkinson) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:25:47 -0800

Ready-To-Go Templates - An Easier Way to Design

No matter if you are designing a webpage or printed media, such as a brochure, it is now easier than ever to complete with ready-to-go templates. More and more people are wanting to take creative control of the look of their business and personal promotional projects. Although the majority of people do not have a background in graphic design, everyone knows what they do and do not like in terms of aesthetics. Therefore, looking through various website templates and brochure templates gives you plenty of ideas for your own designs. These examples will quickly give you a good idea of what kind of a look and design you prefer, and make it unbelievably simple to implement them into your own projects.

Ready-to-go templates can provide you with plenty of ideas to use in order to become your own graphic designer. Instead of having to consult endlessly with a design agency, trying to get your point across of what kind of visuals you prefer, you can, instead, just download website templates and brochures templates that are all ready to use. All of the work is done for you. You simply need to fill in your own information and writing content.

Ready-to-go templates can also help a great deal for those people unsure of where to begin. Although some people have an idea in their head about what images and designs might suit their web or print media best, there are also many who do better when they are able to see samples of what is available. By viewing examples from a portfolio of work that has already been created or templates and designs that are available for download, you can get a clearer picture of what kind of look you prefer for your own project. Once you have gotten an idea of your own personal preferences, you can simply order a ready-made template that can then be used for your website, brochure, or other printed material.

Another great advantage that you get by being able to download a design template is that it is often much more economical than going through a graphic design studio. Especially taking into account prices for revisions that are most likely inevitable when trying to articulate your design concept to an agency, it can take quite a bit of time and can also get quite costly. Instead, using ready-to-go templates allow you to visually select a design that is perfect for you and you can do so quickly, on your own time, and inexpensively as well.

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Our rate is $50 per hour

info@gammacreative.net (Alex Atkinson) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:22:40 -0800

Graphic Design And Prepress Services - Our rate is $50 per hour

Many businesses know that they must make a favorable first impression to increase their client base. Letterhead, product brochures and advertising pieces must be crisp, clear and above all, professional. They often try to do it themselves, expecting the rates of an experienced graphic design company to be costly. If this sounds familiar, you may be pleasantly surprised with the options available to you. There are various design tasks and prepress services that can be completed in just one hour. We have more than ten years of experience offering our superior service and expertise to customers across North America.

Are you feeling the pressure to have a product catalog or brochure available to give to potential customers describing who you are and what you do, but have no idea where to start? Do you need effective advertising pieces to send to existing customers promoting new products? Our experienced graphic design experts can help you decide which type of brochure will work best for your needs. Loose, double-sided slick sheets, n-fold booklets or folders with inserts are examples of options that can be discussed. The concept of content and an agreed upon format can be completed in just one hour.

The next step will be in deciding which types of graphic design and text layout will be used with the format. Will it include full color photographs and four-color logos in addition to text? A draft of the initial layout and artwork to be used, including stock images or graphics provided by you, can be completed in just one hour. Do you have business cards, envelopes and letterhead? If not, we can discuss colors, design and layout for each. Have you considered the font styles you would like to be included? Will they be the same as that used on the business cards and letterhead?

Would you prefer to use more than one style for the layout? Our design team can provide the options that are most appropriate for the purpose of the piece. Making the changes and preparing a sample can be done quickly. If you already have a file, but it needs to meet the printer’s requirements, we can clean it up and make it ready to print. If you already have a business card layout, but need to change names and add titles, we can do that. Contact Gamma Creative to find out how we can help you with graphic design and prepress services, in just one hour.

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Cost for Graphic Design

info@gammacreative.net (Alex Atkinson) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:03:33 -0800

Cost for Graphic Design or Prepress Services - The Advantage of Per Hour Pricing

The cost for graphic design or prepress services can vary greatly from company to company. As some charge per project and others per hour, it can be difficult to decide which pricing structure works out best for your project and budget. Many people tend to go with per project rates feeling more comfortable knowing the total costs ahead of time. However, it is often not in their best interest to go this route as much more can be accomplished in an hour than many people typically realize.

The reason that people tend to shy away from hourly pricing is that they do not have a good idea of just how much can get done in one hour. Without a frame of reference, it can be difficult to get an idea of how much your project will end up costing. However, although the cost for graphic design or prepress services can vary depending on the complexity of an assignment, for the most part, it is easy to get a good idea of how long your project will take and the ultimate cost.

When trying to figure out the cost for graphic design or prepress services, unless the project is uncharacteristically complex, one can generally count on a book layout of 100 pages to be completed in one hour. Other things that can be done within one hour, in regards to design, are the concept of your brochure or booklet, the primary layout and images for the project, the choice of fonts and styles within a layout, or the full design of business cards, letterhead, or envelopes. This shows that quite a bit can get done within as little time as one hour. At prices as low as $50 an hour, it is easy to see how this sort of cost structure can be to your benefit.

In regards to prepress services there are also fairly reliable guidelines as to what can be done within an hour as well. Files and designs have to be formatted in a specific way in order to print properly. The process of cleaning up a file in order to make sure it prints accurately can oftentimes be completed in one hour. Additionally, up to 20 new names can be typeset onto business cards that have already been designed. As so much can be accomplished in such a short time, prices of $50 per hour makes the cost for graphic design or prepress services affordable for everyone.

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