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Design Tip of the Week

January 4th, 2010
The design tip of the week took a short hiatus, but it’s back this week to help you make the most of designing your eco friendly products. This week’s tip is about uploading images to your business cards, and an additional feature that few people have discovered.

Adding an image to your business card, or any of our eco-friendly products for that matter, adds a unique touch to your design. Position a portrait of yourself in the upper left corner so clients and business associates can remember your face. One of the coolest aspects of the image upload feature is that you can replace your entire background with your image. No need to worry about centering your image or bringing your text to the foreground; it’s all formatted for you.

Here’s how: While in your selected template, click “Add an Image.” Choose your file and agree to the “Rights Reserved” terms. Once your image is uploaded, check to replace your background image. The image replaces the entire background of the template, while leaving the text boxes in their original place.

Play around with this feature, and try adding images to different design templates until you find the one you like the best! And let us know what you think… we’re always looking for ways to improve our site and the user experience. Happy printing!
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Design Tip of the Week

November 17th, 2009
Today begins a new feature at the Pixxlz blog; the Design Tip of the Week. It’s a new way for us to help our customers by offering fun tips and ideas for designing on our site. It will also help you use our design tool better, so that together we create the best printed products.

Designing With the Bleed ::

All of our templates incorporate crop marks to indicate the final trim size of your document. When an image or text goes over the border, this is called the bleed. The term bleed is used for all objects overlapping the trim lines of your document. Therefore, a document slightly larger than the finished size is printed to accommodate the bleed and to make sure all important content is contained within the trim lines and not cut during finishing.

When designing with our templates, you will notice that all four corners have crop marks which indicate where the cutter will slice the paper to the finished size. Even though the cut should be accurate, it is best to leave an additional 1/8″ between the crop marks and foreground objects to ensure that nothing gets cut off. Documents also look a lot better when you leave a slight margin.

So when you go to design your next eco friendly printed product, make sure you consider the bleed and crop marks. You’ll be calling yourself a graphic designer in no time!
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Pixxlz New Homepage Is Live!

November 9th, 2009
These are exciting times over here at Pixxlz, your eco friendly printer. We launched our brand new, redesigned homepage this weekend! Our goal was to make it easier for customers to find exactly what they’re looking for when they visit our site. So let’s take a look at the features on our homepage, shall we?

First, you will notice we provide a list of products and services down the left side. Now, you can find and link to the exact product that you are interested in buying right away. We also label any ongoing sales with red sales tags for those of you who are looking for a great deal. Also listed are additional services that Pixxlz is offering to customers. These link to a description and encourage customers to contact us directly if interested. Like we’ve always said, we offer more than what you see on our site!

Another great aspect of our new homepage is the slideshow of featured products and important notes about Pixxlz. Here, we highlight products that we think customers might be interested in, depending on the season and upcoming holidays or events, as well as brief information about our printing process and philosophy. It’s a helpful way to guide our customers towards products they might need or might not have considered before.

In the upper right corner of the slideshow, you’ll notice an offer for a free sample kit. This is a helpful new option for our customers that are interested in eco friendly printing, but would prefer to see examples of our printed products before ordering. Who knows, you may even find a deal or two when you request the sample kit.

Below the banner slideshow are two pictures of featured products. This provides a great visual of two of our finished products to give customers an idea of how their designs could look. These images are static, but will change routinely to showcase new products and designs. Right now, this space contains a picture of one of our new square business cards and a second picture of a holiday photo cards. Plus, we’re so proud of our low prices that we have them on display for everyone to see.

So visit the new Pixxlz homepage and tell us what you think! We’re always open to comments and suggestions and would love to hear your feedback.
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Eco Friendly Business Cards:: Sale Ends Today!!

October 27th, 2009
Attention: Deal-seekers and eco-friendly consumers!! Today, Tuesday, October 27th marks the last day of our fall business card sale. Act fast to enjoy our crazy-low prices. But for all our friends who don’t get a chance to capitalize on our blowout sale - have no fear. We enjoyed our sale so much that we decided to permanently reduce our prices! Starting at just $5.95, you can have fun designing your eco friendly business cards! And don’t worry; unlike some of our competitors, there are NO additional charges and definitely no hidden fees. It’s nice to buy things at their actual, advertised price sometimes, huh?

What’s so fabulous about our new reduced prices? Not only are our prices among the lowest, but our products are eco friendly, meaning you can spend the same amount of green to go green! Eco friendly shouldn’t mean more expensive, and we do all that we can to be your eco friendly printer at affordable prices.

Our standard stock is 30% PCW, with a coated, gloss finish. For an even more sustainable business card, upgrade to our 100% PCW paper, with a matte finish. Printed on our digital presses with chemical-free toner, either stock option is still a great way to print green. And if you’re looking to go super-eco, request a quote for larger quantities printed offset using soy-based inks.

So if you’ve got some business cards ready to print, or if you’re in the market for a new design, check out our business card templates and create your cards today before the sale ends. And if you don’t get a chance, no need to stress. Our eco friendly business card prices will continue to blow you away.
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Pixxlz Calendar Sale!

October 1st, 2009
Prices begin at just $6.95.

Now that summer has ended (sigh…), people need something else to look forward to. Enter: the holiday season! I know I know, it’s only the first day of October. And while I definitely disapprove of putting your decorations up before Thanksgiving, that doesn’t mean you can’t plan your gifts ahead of time; especially if the price is right. That’s why we’re starting our calendar promotion early this year. We’ve cut our prices for annual wall calendars! Starting at just $6.95 for 5 calendars, these calendars are a steal!

Personalized monthly and annual calendars are super easy to make at Pixxlz.com, where our templates guide you through the editing process. Use our templates as they come or edit them to get a truly unique calendar. Our calendars are a great gift for your family, friends, or co-workers. Order duplicates and spread the love. That’s not in the realm of re-gifting is it?

What’s so great about our calendars? Well, by now you already know that they are eco-friendly. Printed digitally using chemical-free toner on recycled paper, the printing process we use to create your calendars is reason enough to feel good about your holiday present.

Need help? Pixxlz customer service is easy to reach and happy to help you with any of your design problems.
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Eco-Friendly Posters With A New Perspective

September 29th, 2009
Decorating a new apartment isn’t easy… I know from experience. You want to personalize your space with meaningful pieces while staying within your budget. Prints of your own photographs are often a perfect solution. I love taking and printing pictures, but lately I’ve been looking for creative new ways to capture a shot. That’s why I thought this concept from photojojo.com was so clever! They suggest taking a picture frame off the wall and incorporating it into the actual shot. Any size, any shape or color, this is a really interesting way to create varying perspectives into your photograph and really get creative with the process. Frame the subject of your photograph or something in the foreground of the shot; it’s completely up to you!

Get creative with editing!

And not only is it fun to stage the pictures; you can also get artistic with the editing process. I love changing the tone from color to sepia or black and white. What about changing only the framed part of the picture?

Why not take your creativity the extra mile… at Pixxlz.com; you can turn your picture into an 11″ x 17″ poster. We can even mount it for you! Posters from Pixxlz are easy to create and super inexpensive. But don’t give all our secrets away…
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Pixxlz Business Card Blowout Sale!!

September 8th, 2009
Pixxlz is excited to announce our business card blowout sale! Our prices are so unbelievably low you’ll probably expect some extra charges to be tacked on as you design. Well expect the unexpected, my friends. What you see is what you get at Pixxlz, and what you get is high quality eco-friendly business cards at the lowest prices around. With this limited time offer, you have the opportunity to stock up on the business cards you already use or test out a new design and see how you like it. At Pixxlz, we’re always updating our templates so try a new one out! Never had your own business card? Try our mini business cards on for size. They’re on sale, too! And at these prices, you can even afford to go the extra distance and upgrade to 100% PCW stock. Our world will thank you. As will your wallet.

Need some business card inspiration? We love checking out The Business Carder, where people submit photos of the coolest cards out there. Just don’t let your boss catch you; this site can be addicting!

At Pixxlz, we strive to offer the best customer service. So let us know what you think! We’re always looking for template suggestions or recommendations on how to make your experience with Pixxlz more enjoyable.
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Custom Printed Notebooks - Another Unique Green Product from Pixxlz.com

August 31st, 2009
Summer is quickly coming to an end and school is right around the corner. I’m not embarrassed to admit that back-to-school shopping was one of my favorite parts of August… and when I say that I obviously mean shopping for my school supplies. That’s why I am SO excited about Pixxlz newest product: custom printed notebooks. These are perfect for kids to bring to their first day of classes, displaying cool designs and their name printed on the cover or pictures of their favorite summer memory. In addition to being a great classroom accessory, our custom printed notebooks are made from recycled paper, with the option to upgrade to 100% PCW stock. At Pixxlz, it’s easy for customers to be creative! Choose your two favorite photos from a family vacation, and our custom printed notebooks become the perfect keepsake to take you through the winter months. If pictures aren’t your thing, choose from our pre-designed templates, or create your own.

Click here to make your own custom printed notebook now!

Pixxlz Custom Printed Notebooks are Environmentally Friendly:

As the world goes green, it can still be hard to limit the use of paper in the classroom. Pixxlz is dedicated to creating printed products that are environmentally friendly through the use of soy-based inks and minimal waste creation in the printing process. A great way for kids to reduce their own paper consumption is to use both sides of paper. Smaller notebooks also help reduce waste, like our 4.25” by 5.5” custom printed notebooks!

If you’re still concerned about your paper consumption, check out the Paper Calculator offered by the Environmental Defense Fund. It’s a great way to see how the paper choices you make can be altered to better help the environment. Thedailygreen.com calculated that switching your annual order of 100 tons of copy paper to a paper with 50% recycled content could save 173 tons of wood, 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gases, hundreds of pounds of toxic air and water pollutants and more than 50,000 pounds of solid waste.
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“Our Product is Crap”

January 16th, 2009
You may or may not have received our latest email with subject line “Our Product is Crap”.

It’s true, we actually sent out an email to a lot of people with that subject line. Only because it’s true- we sell products made from Elephant Poo. You can read more about this and our other environmentally friendly products here.

Here is the best reaction from the email:

http://kelloggdays.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/our-product-is-crap/#comment-28
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Free Custom Guitar Hero Skins

December 1st, 2008
Our site is hopping with Guitar Hero skin’s for the holiday. I wish we could share other designs with you, but that wouldn’t be fair.

We just had a father design two; one for each of this twins….very cute.

There was a lady who bought her kids a puppy for Christmas, took a picture and uploaded it to our skin template. She plans to give her kids the puppy Guitar Hero skin before the actual puppy. Nice job mom!

Told you there are some cute ideas. $12.99/each. Can’t go wrong.

Happy Shopping….
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