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	<title>Intrigue Graphics - Design and Print (and Cool Apple Mac Stuff) &#187; advertising</title>
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		<title>Intrigue Teams up with Constant Contact</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been no updates on our blog for several months as you may have noticed (or not, if this is your first visit). That is not due to there being "nothing going on" here at Intrigue. On the contrary...

Actually, a <strong>LOT</strong> has been going on. We've been inundated with many new projects and we've had to burn the midnight oil to make sure that we've crossed all the t's and dotted the i's. It's one of those "good" problems to have. You can never have TOO much work coming in. It's a good sign for us that even though the economy still is recovering, we're doing ok at the moment.

One of the new projects we took in was a request to send out a customized eblast to a limited number of recipients. After doing some research on the issue, we decided that signing up for a dedicated email marketing service was the best way to go.

I had looked into these services a few years back and there are a handful of quality companies to choose from. We really could have gone with any number of them so it was almost a roll of the dice as to which one to choose.

We were also pressed for time so I had to make a recommendation rather quickly. My first choice was "Constant Contact. There was an internal discussion about it and we had some questions about what the service included and for how much. A phone call was made to the company and we received satisfactory answers to all our questions. ]]></description>
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		<title>Intrigue is featured on Markzware Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.intriguegraphics.com/wordpress/2010/07/07/intrigue-is-featured-on-markzware-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Production]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check it out!
Yours truly was interviewed by Mary Gay Marchese - the Public Relations Director at Markzware, the software company. Over the years, we have purchased a few of their products, most notably Flightcheck. For us, this application is indispensable as we run all our outgoing layout files through it to make sure there are no surprises when it's time to print a project.]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Backlinks</title>
		<link>http://www.intriguegraphics.com/wordpress/2010/03/19/creating-backlinks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's topic is targeted at website creators and promoters. Although I've worked with the design team here at Intrigue at helping build our corporate site, we haven't fully explored the various options at promoting it. So I decided to do some research and learn some of the techniques needed at telling the world about Intrigue and intriguegraphics.com.

I created this blog as an adjunct to our main site. It's partially an experiment and partially an indirect way to draw traffic in to our main site. Along the way, I've picked up many bits of tid that I get to implement over time. It's about learning what works and there's a bit of trial and error - and a whole lot of research to see how other people do this.]]></description>
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		<title>Glossy Varnish Plates in Quark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[graphics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[troubleshooting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piggybacking on the multi-color PDFs we were generating for our last Intrigue project, there was a new challenge awaiting. Our latest catalog has a specification for 2 extra "colors" as well - though they are not actually colors, rather they are extra "plates".

There will be a spot varnish plate as well as a "glossy" plate. By printing with both varnish and glossy coatings, the product images will really pop out from the printed page. It creates a very high-end look and people see the extra quality immediately.

We were successful in generating proper (and standard compliant) PDFs for the previous book, this time around, we need to approach things a little differently. Because the varnish and gloss plates are not actual colors, it's necessary to convince Quark and Photoshop that we will be using colors anyway.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Heavy Metal&#8221; PDF distilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're working on a very interesting project here at Intrigue. It's a 160 plus page catalog for one of our high-end clients. The design of the layout is very clean and attractive. One of the most notable features of this project is the specification of six colors. That's right, SIX!

It's not unusual for us to do a project that specs an extra color or two. They tend to be a little more challenging to produce as we are very creative in how we add the extra color. In this case, our two extra "spot" colors are actually metallic inks. This will give the photos some extra "pop" in the printed book. Whenever we've done metallics in the past, people really love seeing the printed piece as metallic inks give a nice reflective sheen on the paper.]]></description>
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