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Design Tip of the Week: Saving Your Work

January 29th, 2010
We get a lot of questions about saving work on our site, and whether or not customers need to save their work in order to successfully place an order. The simple answer is no; you can visit our site, design or upload a file, and checkout in just a few short minutes without ever creating an account. But a great option that our site offers is the ability for customers to create an account and save their work to be edited or ordered in the future. So here’s how:

When you are in the design tool and have finished designing your template, click the “Save My Work” button on the left side of the page. (Only the current page that you are designing and future pages that you create will be saved, so if you are designing a two-sided business card, make sure that you initiate this step on the first side of the card so that your first side is saved!) This prompts you to navigate away from the page to set up an account. If you already have an account, enter your information and the page you are currently working on will be saved. Otherwise, you can create a new account. Fill in your information and once you click “Register,” you will receive confirmation on the screen with your login information, as well as a confirmation email to keep for future use. Enter your email and password, click Login, and your saved works are available to be managed!

Having trouble with this feature? Contact us and we’ll be happy to help. Have suggestions for how to make your experience better? Let us know! We’re always trying to improve the user experience.
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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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Introducing:: Eco Friendly Holiday Cards

October 23rd, 2009
Introducing eco friendly holiday cards from Pixxlz! Whether you’re planning ahead or waiting until the last minute, our green holiday cards are the way to go this year. Upload your favorite family portrait to create photo cards or customize one of our templates for holiday greeting cards. Eco friendly printing is a great way to combat the paper waste experienced during the holidays.

Did you know:: According to The ULS Report, annual trash from gift-wrap and shopping bags totals 4 million tons.

Printed on your choice of 30% or 100% PCW recycled paper, it’s up to you how green you want your holiday cards to be. Not sure how our paper will look? Click here to request a free sample kit of our standard and upgrade paper stock. But just because you’re minimizing waste doesn’t mean you have to be conservative with design. Get creative with our easy-to-use templates that help you customize your greeting cards, or upload your own file to truly control the creative process.

Want to print with soy-based inks? Get a quote for an offset print job on our presses, where we print with “edible” ink. Whichever process you choose to print, the job will always be printed green.

Have your own design for holiday templates? Contact us, and we will promote your templates as one of our designer collections. You’ll receive a percent commission on any sale that uses your design!

So get in the holiday spirit with your eco friendly printer. Happy holidays and happy printing!
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Pixxlz New Design Feature!

September 30th, 2009
There’s a new design feature at Pixxlz.com that makes creating your eco-friendly printed products even easier! A lot of times, people want to use our business card or flyer templates, but would prefer to customize the background while maintaining the pre-designed text layout. Well we heard your requests people! Customizing the background of a template is now a reality. Here’s how you do it: When you click on one of our product templates and start designing, there is the option to “Add an Image” on the upper right corner of the design toolbar. Click here! With the new feature, after you have browsed for an image, you can choose to “Check to Replace Design Background,” which replaces the entire background image with your own. You no longer have to decide between uploading your own file and creating a design on a blank template to customize a design. And this, my friends, makes creating custom eco-friendly printed products at Pixxlz.com as easy as ever.

What’s so helpful about this feature, you may ask? Now you can use the text layouts of a template that you like and replace the background image with your own. The best part is that you don’t lose the text box that went with the original template, so no need to worry about sizing or centering a new one: it’s already done for you. Check out the two templates below; the left one is unedited and the right template has had an image added into the background using the new feature.

Want to get paid for templates you design? Pixxlz.com features collections from graphic designers and photographers who want to share their work with our customers. Each time someone selects and buys one of your designs, you earn commission. It’s a great way to gain exposure as a designer and earn some extra money for designs you have already created. Interested? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us for info!
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Business Card Sale and 2010 Calendars

September 22nd, 2009
We’ve got a lot going on at Pixxlz.com! Have you checked out our business card sale? There’s just a short time left to get eco-friendly business cards for the cheapest prices around. Our prices have been slashed, so upgrade to 100% PCW to make an even bigger difference. Don’t need to add to the business cards you already have? Try designing a mini business card. Your card will stand out against all the others.

If you’re stocked up on business cards, why not get ready for the New Year with a 2010 calendar? Design one for your kitchen or office, or get one for both! Our prices are affordable, and you help the environment when you print green.

What do you think of Pixxlz.com? We’ve been making some changes recently and would love your feedback. How can we make Pixxlz better for you?

Happy printing!
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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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50% OFF all our eco-friendly printed products

March 13th, 2009
I have a secret promo code to give all of you reading our blog. I’m sure this code will seep out into the internet, but I’m giving it to you anyways.

Not only are our prices some of the lowest in the printing industry, but now we want to offer 50% off everything. Call us crazy, but we’re doing it.

We want to give you 50% off business cards, greeting cards, letterhead, postcards…50% off every print product we have (I’m rambling on to see if you read the end to get the promo code).

This offer isn’t going to last long, and only applied to orders under $1K. We might be nice, but not that nice. During these economic times we understand everyone is hurting, and we want to help. So again, we’ll help for a limited time

All you have to do is create your product online (using our templates or upload your own design) and put in promo code: 50PIXXLZ
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THANK YOU!

March 5th, 2009
Pixxlz blogs to help everyone be more aware of staying Green. We don’t blog to self promote, but in this entry it might sound like it. I’m actually going to write to brag, because everyone who works here deserves a big old pat on the back.

If you haven’t figured out already; we’re small. We love being small. Being small allows us to reach out to all of our customers, and give them the customer service they deserve. When you call our customer service, you talk to a real live person. That’s our commitment to you, green printing with outstanding customer service.

Printing is a unique industry. There are a lot of variables going into each print job (size, color, paper, etc.). Not everyone knows what he or she wants and need to talk to someone. We enjoy getting phone calls and talking to our clients. It’s amazing to hear where people are from, what kind of project their working on, or what they do for living.

To all those who work at Pixxlz in customer service…thank you!
To all those who work at Pixxlz production and design center…thank you!
To all those freelance designers out there using us as their printing…thank you!
To all those ordering once with us….thank you!
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Pixxlz [Eco-Blog] We Print Green

Pixxlz Custom Printed Notebooks are Environmentally Friendly: