| NEW! Photo Greeting Cards Now Available Through Natural PRESS |
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 Natural Color's All Occasion Greeting Cards, Greeting Card Borders and Multi-Image Cards are now available as single-sided, press printed products. These cards offer an economical alternative for your cost-savvy customers. Press printed cards are available on either Satin or Pearl stock (add 20% for Pearl stock). As with our photographic cards, pricing includes envelopes. UV Glossy Coating is included on Satin press printed cards; cards printed on Pearl sock are uncoated.
To view all the styles, logos & layouts that Natural Color offers, visit our web site at www.samplesonline.net.
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| Improved Font Features In ROES With Template Creator |
As you may have heard by now, Natural Color recently upgraded the Template Creator (TC) in our ROES software with the addition of a new Font button. This new Font button allows you to access and select any of the local system fonts currently installed on the computer in your home or studio. To take advantage of this exciting new feature, we have enabled the TC for use on our Photographic and new Press Photo Greeting Card templates. This change required the removal of the Text Font, Text Style and Text Color options under the Options palette. The end result gives you greater creative control over your greeting cards beyond the limitations of the 16 fonts and 24 colors previously offered. It will also allow you to shadow the text after selecting one of the available fonts for use. Above all - it's very easy!
To learn how to control the text on your future greeting card orders, point your browser to http://www.naturalcolorlab.com/roes/ClientGuide/card%20tutorial/index.html for a fully illustrated tutorial that will guide you through the process step-by-step. Click on any of the screen captures for a more detailed view. Be sure to bookmark this page for future reference over the course of the holiday season.
Keep an eye on your Inbox for upcoming e-mails announcing some ROES Greeting Card online-based webinars and in-house seminars to be held here at Natural Color in the early fall.
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| NEW! Meridian Lay Flat Albums |
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Introducing our newest line of photographic albums - Meridian Lay Flat Albums. Our binding technique allows the pages of the album to be spread flat for a truly professional presentation.
Limited to 30 sides/15 pages, these albums are available in three formats - 6x6, 8x8 & 10x10. Your choice of two cover styles - Photo or Leather. Leather is available in three colors - black, maroon or blue. Gold stamping (up to three lines) for Leather Covers only, while studio imprinting on the inside cover is available for both cover styles. There is also an option for padded covers, and UV Glossy Coating on the album pages is included in the price. You can order Meridian Lay Flat Albums exclusively through our Natural ROES or ROES RTP software. Look for the Meridian Albums tab in the Designer Templates & Sizes Catalog.
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Charlie's Corner |
 Ready to Print Revisited
If you are using or planning to use our Ready to Print service , your monitor must be calibrated and calibrated correctly. It amazes me how every day people call me and say, "It doesn't look the same on my monitor." I always ask if they have correctly calibrated their monitor. Some say yes and some say no. Some have no idea why they need to calibrate and some are using some obsolete calibrator like a Spider One. Natural Color has many customers using the RTP service successfully because they have taken the time to learn the technology and invest in the proper equipment to properly and efficiently do their job. Learning to color correct your images takes time and practice. Some people can do it and some simply cannot. Babe Ruth may have hit 714 home runs, but he struck out 1,360 times. To help you in calibrating your monitor to the output of Natural Color Lab, we have added a new tab entitled "Test Print" in both the Ready to Print ROES catalog and the Natural ROES catalogs to upload five files to show you what your files are going to look like when they are output by Natural Color Lab. All new customers are using this and mostly doing it successfully. I suggest that EVERYONE using our RTP service try this tab and send in five files to verify that you are getting what you see. There is no charge for this service. I suggest you send an 8x10 monthly to see that your monitor is where you think it is. Everyone's monitor drifts and should be calibrated at least monthly.
Charlie
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| Employee of the Month |
 Bujar Veselaj (otherwise known as BJ) is Natural Color Lab's employee of the Month for the month of September. BJ arrived here from Albania two years ago where he owned and operated his own photography studio and mini lab photo-processing store. BJ is an accomplished Photoshop operator and designs most of the albums for Natural Color Lab's Design Print and Bind service. BJ also works in our proofing department, color-correcting thousands of images every day. BJ and his wife are the proud parents of a twenty-year-old daughter and an eighteen-year-old son. As employee of the month, BJ receives free gasoline for the month of September. This month, BJ has an image that is a top forty finalist in PC Photo Magazine's online photo contest. Check it out and cast a vote for BJ at
http://www.pcphotomag.com/top100/contest/gallery-fin-lg.php?gal=Finalists&id=3184#
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