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Get 15% off Laserfoil now until 3/31/10

To top off Laserfoil Week, I’ve decided to give everyone a 15% off coupon code for our Laserfoil! This offer is only valid until March 31st, 2010 so be sure to take advantage of it soon!

You’ve seen how easy it is to use. You’ve seen what you can do with it. Now, try it for yourself!

Use coupon code: “laserfoil” when checking out to receive your 15% off coupon!

Create Your Own Foil Bottle Labels

Many companies look to create stunning labels for their products. A great way to do that is to apply some laserfoil to the product labels. Here is a true life example of what one of our customers did with our laserfoil and clear laser labels!

One of our local customers came into our shop back in Fall 2009 looking for labels for her fragrances and body lotions. She had clear bottles, so we recommended our clear labels to her. She wanted more than just blank text on a clear label, so we turned her onto our laserfoil. We sent her home with some samples so she could test out different designs and colors for herself and she came back with remarkable results!

She had used our Silver Laserfoil on our clear labels to create her labels. With the clear labels, it appeared that the silver foil was applied directly to the bottle itself! The labels cost $7.95 and the laserfoil cost $15.95 – She was able to produce 60 large professional quality bottle labels for less than $25 and you can too!

How to use Laserfoil

It’s not hard to use laserfoil. Basically, you print your document as you normally would, apply the laserfoil to the spots you want to use it on, and run it through the printer again to adhere the foil to the toner! Here’s a little more detailed description.

1. Create your document in your text editing program. Plan for where you want to use the foil. It could be single spots on the page, or the entire page. When you are finished, you can print out your document!

2. Place the laserfoil on the paper. Take your laserfoil and cut it to the appropriate size. In this case, we just wanted to make our logo shine. We cut the laserfoil large enough to cover the entire logo, but small enough so that it didn’t touch any of our other text on the page. Using the provided mini circle labels, we stick the laserfoil to the paper.

3. Heat the laserfoil to the paper. Really what needs to happen, is your paper needs to be heated up enough so that the laserfoil adheres to the toner already on the sheet. To do this, simply create a new blank document in your text editor. This document should have no text on it. We just want to run the paper through the printer again, we do not want to print on it. When you have this set up, load your document in the printer as if you wanted to print on the same side, and click print.

4. Remove the laserfoil. Once you have printed, simply remove the laserfoil you applied to the document. As you peel it off, you will notice that parts of the laserfoil that you are peeling off, are sticking to your document! Discard the excess laserfoil and you are done!

What is Laserfoil?

Laserfoil is a Laser Printer specific product that allows any laser printer to print foil onto paper! The product is a thin metallic foil. We have it available in Gold, Blue, Red, Green, Silver, or Magenta. We offer the product in rolls of 25 feet or 200 feet.

Laserfoil is great for everyone. Businesses, use laserfoil on your letterhead or product labels. Home users, create beautiful greeting or thank you cards with foil! Check back tomorrow to see some great examples!

Laserfoil Week

This week, be sure to read up on our blog about our Laserfoil products. What they are all about and how they work. Also, see some great examples of different uses with our laserfoil! You don’t want to miss it.

Come back every day this week to learn more and see what its all about!!

Desktop Card Collections

Creating a common theme is vital to making any event or business effective. Our Card Collections make it easy to maintain a common theme!

The Card Collections contain Postcards, Greeting Cards, & Invitations. They are available in a variety of colors, including Blue, Black, Red, Green, and much more! We also have card collections available with foil borders!

Greeting Cards vs Invitations – What is the difference?

You’re probably thinking.. “Everybody knows the difference between Greeting Cards and Invitations… what’s this guy talking about?”. Short and simple… We all know that greeting cards are given to people to show affection and invitations are given to people to invite them to an event.

OK. But what about their physical appearance? Is there any difference? The answer really is not clear. Many people consider invitations to be flat (non folding) cards. But others beg to differ. All agree that a greeting card has a fold. At least that clears up the problem a little!

As the web designer for all Desktop online stores, sometimes I find myself wondering if I should list a product as an Invitation or as a Greeting Card. It seems that the content and the creator’s personal preference is really the only thing that makes a product either an invitation or a greeting card. Here at Desktop, most of our products are blank- leaving it up to the consumer to make the decision!

It looks like all we can really do is let fate put our products in the right hands!

Full Line of Blue / Grey Border Products Now Available

Our new Blue & Grey Border products are now available online. This collection features matching postcards, flat card invitations, and greeting cards. These Blue / Grey Border cards are great for keeping a common theme throughout your projects. Our Blue / Grey Border Cards feature a semigloss Blue & Grey border on our most popular products!. These products include 4up Postcards, Half Fold Greeting Cards, and Flat Invitation Cards. All our Blue / Grey border products are made from an 80lb white cardstock.

Note: The way we manufacture these products unfortunately makes them Inkjet Compatible Only

Visit our Blue / Grey Border Cards section today to get started on your next project!

Florist Size Envelopes

Florist Size Envelopes are great for holding many different types of products. Florist envelopes were originally meant to be used to hold small cards that accompany bouquets of flowers. But there are many other types of cards that the florist size envelopes can hold as well.

The size of the cards – 2 5/8″ x 3 5/8″ – lends itself to a variety of small cards! Many people choose to use our florist size envelopes to hold gift cards or membership cards. Others simply use them for business cards or small (business card size) invitations. For weddings, many people use these to hold small notes to guests.

Whichever way you use them, these small envelopes work great!

Desktop Business Card Paper

Here at Desktop, we strive to make our business card stock the best on the market. We only use high quality cardstock and we are constantly testing our business cards for any defects as they are being manufactured.

We have a very nice variety of business card stocks, ranging from linen to glossy. Also, there is no need to find new software or download new templates to use our business card paper as we’ve designed it to work with existing templates found on all major software!

Best of all, we offer our business card stock at much lower prices than our competition! Starting at just $5.95 for 250 Business Cards (25 Sheets)!