Recent Work
What is Every Door Direct Mail?
Every Door Direct Mail® from the U.S. Postal Service®, is designed to help you reach every home, every address, every time. The low postage rate of 16¢ each piece allows businesses to deliver their message at a fraction of traditional direct mail marketing costs. Benefits of Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM): 16¢ postage per piece No mailing list needed No postage permit required Reach an entire city or zip code with your marketing message Final piece reaches mailboxes without being handled by multiple automation machines EDDM Made Easy with Pacific City Graphics There are regulations and rules to the Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) product. Pacific ...
What is a Form-velope?
A form-velope, sometimes called a form and envelope combo, is a printed piece that typically has an envelope and form in combination. The form and envelope combo can be used to create a form with the return envelope attached; including re-moistenable glue for sealing the return envelope. A few examples of a form-velope in use are statements, collection letters, past due notices, direct mail sales, personal correspondence, time sheets, fundraising letters, expense reports and payment vouchers. Recently we worked with a great local company, Center For Siouxland on producing an annual appeal form-velope that ...
Effectively Using Vanishing Point Filter in Photoshop
Using Adobe Photoshop's Vanishing Point filter is a great way to effectively match perspective when editing photos. For example, let's say you are designing a sign that will be hung up on light poles around town and you want to have a realistic mock-up to show your client. We put together a simple introductory tutorial to take you through the process of designing this realistic mock-up. For starters, here is the photo we'll start off with of a pole with a blank sign on it: From here, we'll need to open up our flyer (originally designed in Adobe InDesign CS5 on our ...
Print Procurement with Pacific City Graphics
Pacific City Graphics prints your products and stores them for just-in time distribution. By producing similar products in combination, you purchase color-consistent products at the lowest possible cost. Products are evaluated for annual use and life to reduce the risk of becoming obsolete. This one-source approach prevents crisis management since you never run short of supply.
PCG Designs New PIM Logo
Effective April 1, 2011, Printing Industry of the Midlands (PIM) and Printing Industry of Minnesota (PIMN) has merged. Upon announcement of the merger, Pacific City Graphics began to work on development of the new logo for PIM. Initially when we started the concept our goal was to design a logo that showed the strength and sustainability of print. To illustrate these points we decided to use an origami tree as the icon. The tree is the paper, the paper is the tree. The board of directors representing both organizations approved the merger, and the new entity will become the ...
Pressman Awarded Production Employee of the Year
February 22, 2011, Omaha, NE — Roger Beck, pressman at Pacific City Graphics, South Sioux City, NE, received the Production Employee of the Year Award from Printing Industries of the Midlands President Dick Clark. Beck was selected for this prestigious award from a pool of nominees representing Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. Roger has more than 24 years of experience in the print industry.
