Everything in stationery printing really boils down to its design. You always want to have the best one which fits your personality, or the most effective one fits your goals for stationery printing. However, choosing a good stationery design isn’t as simple as it sounds. To get a good and original one for your own use, you have to know some pointers. Below are five tips on how to choose a good stationery design.
1. Use more than templates – The first advice that we can give you in choosing a good stationery design is to look for more than just mere templates. A lot of people can be easily attracted to using templates since they are easy to use and there are a lot of designs to choose from. However, the limitation of templates is that there is always a chance that another person with similar tastes like you can use it. This makes you very unoriginal and it negates that sense of personality with your personal stationeries. So, to avoid something like this from happening, you need to make some original designs yourself or hire someone to do it for you. This might take a lot of work, but if you want good, or even the best kinds of stationery designs, this is the best choice in achieving that.
2. Look for something clear – Now, whatever you choose though, custom made or template created, a good stationery design must always be something that is relatively clear. Do not believe in those others who think that the more design accents and elements the better looking stationeries can be. In fact it is the opposite. The more cluttered a stationery design, the more useless it is. It is best to have appropriate design elements like a header, footer and a light border or watermark background. Those are it. No other elements should be present to make things clear, clean and writable.
3. Lighter colors are better – Also, for all stationeries, it is always a must that your paper must be light colored. This is because most pens in use today are dark colored like black or blue. If you write on dark colored stationery, these pens cannot write effectively in that paper color. You would need special inks just to get something on the stationery which will be a problem. So it is almost always a must to print on lighter colored stationery paper for the best functionality.
4. Standard usable size – Another important advice in stationery printing is the size or dimensions of the stationery. It is always best to print stationeries in standard sizes. The most common size should be the letter sized paper. Anything significantly smaller or bigger than that can really affect the usefulness of your stationery. You won’t want something too big that is hard to carry around, and you won’t want something too small that can’t fit your messages. So keep to the standard size of printing if you can. You don’t have to show off and print big or small stationeries.
5. Proper binding and tear off – Lastly, you might want to check your binding for stationeries. The best one to use is those rubber adhesives that lets you tear of stationery pages one by one. This makes your stationery pretty convenient, and it is cheap to have it binding like this too. Avoid other more permanent kinds of binding since you will have a lot of difficulty writing and giving away your notes.
Wonderful! You should be quite ready now to choose a good stationery that is effective and perfect for you.