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How Much Sewing Automation is Enough?

Textile Manufacturing automation is accelerating but the remaining “last mile” sewing, continues to be a barrier to re-shoring. There are some of efforts underway to automate sewing and can change the North American apparel manufacturing

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Top 10 Gifts For Creatives This Holiday Season

Stumped on what to get for the holidays? Let us help. Our Top 10 Gifts have ideas for designers, marketers, photographers and more.

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How to Better Communicate with Your Suppliers

Learn the many ways people attempt to communicate color with one another and why some adjectives work and others fail. Learn why color companies need a color name and a color number and more.

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Corrugated Packaging: Design Opportunities and Cost Challenges

Moving from analog to digital production brings some challenges to printers as the corrugated packaging market continues to expand.

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Graphic Arts Employment for October 2020

October 2020 employment figures are at least moving in the right direction from September, albeit slowly; overall printing employment in October was up +0.8% from September, with the gains predominantly in production staff continuing to come back. Let’s not look at year-over-year changes in graphic arts employment

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Designing for Manufacturing – Hands-On Lessons

Design processes were already moving towards 3D and digital. Our Design Dash is for all designers to begin thinking of designing in 3D.

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Design Dash – Submit Your Masks Designs

Colorkarma is excited to announce our first Design Dash Contest. With our partner Gerber Technology, we invite all designers and creatives to submit their colorful, inspiring, calming, fun and creative design patterns for face-masks.

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Editing Size and Pixels in Adobe Photoshop

Sometimes we are asked to submit files that meet a specific size. This may be by size, megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), pixels (px), inches (in), and many more. Here we show you how to adjust an image to be 6″ x 12″ (152.4 mm x 304.8 mm) and be 3600 pixels x 1800 pixels with 300 dpi.

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Selecting Color Schemes For Direct Mail

Adobe Illustrator’s Color Themes can help marketers and graphic designers choose the right color scheme for direct mail and transactional printing.

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Colors that Scare

We share the history of Halloween colors and why this mood board is such a challenge for suppliers.

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