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Posters, vinyl banners, window clings,
yard signs, magnetic auto signs.

If you’re at home and wondering what it takes to create a good food recipe, try one here. But, if you’re curious and want to know the recipe for a good printing design, take a look at a few important tips:

A heaping helping of your goal
Think about your primary goal and what you want to get across. Designers are problem solvers, they want to make sure that you get your point across in an eye catching way. An amazing piece of art might drop the jaw of your viewers, but is it enough to say it accomplished the original task? A designer might also have a great idea to get your point across in a new way.

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Greentree Printing is located across the street from an apartment complex that houses many recent immigrants.

How do we know they are recent?  When we first meet them, most speak very little english.
They come in to send faxes (which often do not go through due to the time difference in their far away homelands), and to make copies of visas, passports, and all kinds of other legal documents.

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This fall Greentree Printing started its 29 year of business. To say our way of doing business has changed is a great understatement. With the advent of digital technology, many procedures and much machinery became obsolete. One day somewhere around 2000, we took everything out of our darkroom and threw it away. The layout artists who used to strip and paste by hand with all their little tricks to get copy on straight, have been replaced by designers that create artwork electronically on computers. Even before email, we remember the day we all stood around the first fax machine in amazement, wondering if our drivers were out of a job.  The wonder of the ability to show a customer something without standing face to face is something you can’t appreciate if you are under 40!

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Here in Pittsburgh we are experiencing another snowy winter. We may as well be educated about this weather! As for those of you in sunny warm places … oh well, you may enjoy learning about snow also.

Fact: About 70 percent of winter storm related deaths occur in automobiles. The rest are primarily due to heart attacks from over exertions such as shoveling heavy snow or from hypothermia caused by over exposure to the cold.

When winter storms strike, stay indoors and keep warm and dry. Avoid over-exertion. Your heart is already working hard in the cold to keep your body warm.

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The days are growing shorter, the air is a little cooler (well a lot cooler than mid-nineties!) and the countryside is getting that fall appearence.

Based on our surge of business during the last few weeks, I would say that many of you have returned to your desks in earnest and left the relaxing days of summer behind you.

Most mental health professionals now agree that a good balance between work and play is essential to a healthy state of mind. We all want to be able to enjoy life and at the same time, develop qualities that are essential to being productive at work – resilience, problem solving ability, and flexibility.

In order to recognize our gifts and develop them, we need adequate rest, fresh air, and time spent with beloved family and friends. Summer usually provides us with a little more opportunity to do this – as we move through fall, we can mentally revisit those lazy hazy days and the stupor of well-being they put us in! And if we are fortunate, we can pull off a few more fun days during the fall season!

July is traditionally a very quiet month for printing – lots of customers are taking their vacations also.

We use our extra  production time to prepare the most favorite mailing of the year – the football-related mailing–which will be coming to you next month.

Our family vacationed in sunny South Carolina – like many of you, we enjoyed the blue skies, hot weather, water, and sand.   This year we had 2 little grandsons in our group – 2 1/2 years and 9 months.  They had so much enjoyment the first two days that they tired themselves out to the point of non-stop screaming.  We quickly realized how important their rest periods were and for their sake, as well as ours, made sure they got them daily after that.

Reflecting on that – it makes me wonder – Can we have too much fun?  Our first reaction would be “no.:” Can we have too much business?  I am sure most of us, especially  in this economy,  would say “no” to that also.  But it is true that even adults need to strike a balance between work and play to be happy and satisfied.  And i am sure you would all agree the best part of work and play are the relationships we enjoy within  each.

We wish for you all some family and friend time this summer in order to recharge and refresh.

Lynne and Glenn

We recently joined a CSA.  This has been on my mind for years but this time I acted early enough to get a spot.  A CSA provides you with a box of fresh farm food during our growing season, April through November.  The food is collected from various farms by the CSA and delivered once a week to a local drop-off point.  It includes all kinds of fresh fruits and veggies as they come ripe, dairy products, and other goodies.

It is a delight to get my CSA box every week – we are enjoying someone else’s organizational skills (the CSA staff), someone else’s creativity (the farmers who think out of the box to stay in business and get everything to grow productively), and someone else’s  extra efforts to help (the host who allows us to tromp up to their porch every week to retrieve our box).

Our goal is that our printing customers have the exact same experience – the assurance the job will be done on time – the delight in our designer’s wonderful efforts – and satisfaction from each and every staff member going the extra mile to make a print-buying experience streamlined and happy.

I have to be a reliable CSA customer – I have to pay my bill on time (actually before I get the product in this case), I have to remember to pick up my box (this will be a challenge) and I have to let the host know if I won’t be in town on pickup day, so the food can be donated.

These are the same attributes we look for in printing customers—
We hope to have a mutually satisfying print-buying parntership with you —and remember to get your necessary amount of fruits and vegetables this summer!

If you would like to give us a PDF of your QuarkXpress Document you may download our Export Settings.  Just click on the link below to download then follow the directions listed to import and use the settings.

GTP QXD PDF Export

IMPORTING Greentree Printing’s Export Settings for QuarkXpress

1)  Unzip the downloaded file if it hasn’t automatically unzipped already.

2)  Open QuarkXpress

3)  Under the Edit menu, scroll to Output Styles…

4)  Click the Import button

5)  Select the downloaded file and click the Open button

6)  Click the Save button

USING Greentree Printing’s Export Settings for QuarkXpress

1)  Under the File menu, scroll to Export, Layout as a PDF…

2)  Select GTP QXD PDF Export from the PFD Style: Drop Menu

3)  Name your file and select where to save it so it is easy for you to find

4)  Click the Save button

5)  View your PDF to make sure it looks satisfactory.

6)  E-mail, Upload or Bring your file to us.