Home Printing Tutorial: Postcard Printing

Welcome to this tutorial for home postcard printing. It is very easy to print things from home these days and postcard printing is no different. So do not worry, you will not have too much trouble creating your personal color postcards. Below are the steps that you can follow to print postcards from home. Let us start with the most crucial step first, gathering your materials.

1. Gather your materials - In postcard printing, your major materials are basically your design elements. In this regard you will need a cover image, a digitally encoded postcard message and a postcard printing template for designing color postcards.

• Your cover image of course should be simple enough to acquire, just take a photograph of what you need, or just use a digital image you have in hand. You can of course scan older pictures if you do not have digital copies of them

• Your postcard message of course is basically your text. You can just type this into a simple text editor or word processor to encode it. This should make the design process easier for you.

• Finally, you will need a postcard printing template. This will help you build a proper framework for your postcards at home. You can find postcard printing templates easily online. Just look for the websites of online printing companies and you should be able to see some templates freely available for download.

2. Get some great tools - Next, you should get some tools. If you already have design tools such as Corel Draw or Adobe Photoshop then you should have no trouble with this set. You already have some powerful tools in designing color postcards. If you do not have these tools and you can't afford them though, do not worry. Just look for GIMP in a search engine and you should be able to download a free design application that you can use for creating color postcard designs.

3. Creating a good design - Whatever tools you use for your postcard printing, designing is the next step after getting those tools. The rule of postcard design is pretty simple. Just place your cover image at the cover area of the template. Add text or other message elements around your cover in such a way as to not disrupt the design's flow. Then, place the pertinent postcard information at the back, with the address area, message area and postage stamp area clearly designed so that you have a functional and proper postcard for sending.

4. Checking your design - Of course do not forget to check your designs for errors afterwards. Look for typographical errors, design errors like misalignments and fuzzy image. Do this three times, and if possible have other people check your designs as well. It is good to be accurate in checking your designs to prevent yourself from mass producing postcards with errors.

5. Online postcard printing - Finally, we come to the printing. The best way to print professional looking postcards is to hire an online postcard printing company. Since those forms are experts at printing you have little to worry about. Just hire them, choose your printing options and pay them online. You should then have your color postcards in three to five days.

There we go! Very easy steps right? You should be able to print great and professional looking color postcards this way, all from the comfort of your own home. Good Luck!


For more information, you can visit this page on postcard printing