Posted On: January, 15, 2010 13:01:38
By anne stewart
Hotcards Makes the Cut on M-Bossed!
Top ten, baby!
This post has been way, way too long in coming. Ever since the start of the new year (what was that, like two weeks ago now!), I’ve been dying to share the super exciting news that the Hotcards blog made it on to the M-Bossed list of Top 10 Print Blogs!
M-Bossed is, itself, a fantastic blog about print media, run by the always insightful Ryan McAbee. Check out a few of his recents commentaries on CES, and why printers should be getting involved, here and here.
Thanks for the shout-out, Ryan. And thanks for putting us above PrintCEO. It’s always nice to be at the top of a list!
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Teachers Union Printing Banned From Classrooms
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Vehicle Wrapping The NYC Subway System
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Print Design For Web Designers
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Print Advertising In Today's Economy
Saying 'cheap,' without saying cheap. September 2008 is now widely considered to have been the to... -
Print Design Parallels With Airport Signage
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Get Spooky Halloween Printing Now!
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Political Tensions Surround Election Campaign Printing
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Print Ads in Gamer Land
Election campaigning comes to Xbox Live. I can officially say that I've seen it all when it c... -
Print CEO Recognized By Crain’s Top 40
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Hotcards - The Green Printing Expert
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Election Campaign Printing In The Famous Batman / Penguin Contest!
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Design Trends In Political Printing
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Creating Universal Sign Systems
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Flyer Printing Gone Bad!
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Massive Full Color Printing
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Poster Ad for Photoshop CS4
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Print CEO On Crain’s Front Page!
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Capitalizing Titles And Headlines In Print And On The Web
What your copy choices say about you. A common debate came up around the office today. We were wo... -
Print Design Inspiration
Eye candy for a chilly Monday morning. I have to admit that when designer Erik Baker’s cool-pic-... -
Green Printing = Green Jobs = Strong Economy
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Hotcards on Twitter!
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2008 Branding and Marketing Trends
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Big Business Converts to Color-Reduced Printing
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10 Ways Out of Work Designers Can Market Themselves Offline
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Direct Mail Printing Appeals to Recession-Conscious Consumers
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The Hotcards list continues: 6 - 10 More shameless self-promotion techniques for creative risk-ta... -
Ugly Sweaters And Apparel Printing
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5 Ways To Celebrate Like A Green Printer
The holidays are the best time to save paper. Being a green printer is tough. And one of the hard... -
Best Sites For Learning About Sustainable Printing And Design
I showed you my list, now you show me yours. I’m a big believe in the wise old saying, “the more ... -
Celebrity Christmas Cards 2008
Design decisions of the rich and famous. Over the last couple of months, we've been doing just ... -
A Green Gift From Your Friendly Neighborhood Printer
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Greatest Green Printing Initiatives of 2008
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Happy Holidays From Hotcards.com!
Things are getting pretty festive around here! -
How Was Our Holiday?
Looking good, guys! Back in the office after an extended holiday weekend. This is a weird time of y... -
The Printing Industry in 2009
What to except, from the environment to the economy… Last year, around this time, I put together ... -
NYE Print Advertising That Stands Out, And Takes A Stand
This is what two-sided printing is all about. New Year's Eve is the perfect case study for the im... -
One Last Piece of Political Printing
Behind the scenes of history, there's always a printer. It's a new year, and the Presidential ele... -
The Effectiveness of Print-to-Web Advertising
We can do better. Did you know that the effectiveness of print advertising is very scientific? Yu... -
The Political Printing Just Keeps On Coming
New Obama poster! Silly me. Silly, silly, silly me. Earlier this week, I wrote a post about the P... -
Print Design Posts of the Week
Because you don’t waste enough time on the internet… Every week, I do my best to read everything pu... -
McDonald’s Rebrands All Print Collateral
Movin' on from 'I'm Lovin' It' to 'It's good for you' ??? There are... -
Does the Printing Industry Need a Bailout?
What do you think? Some of this country's biggest industries are being pulled back from the brink... -
Greatest Printing Video Ever
Those machines are beasts! Ever wonder what the printing industry was like in the U.S. waaaaaaaay... -
Print Design Posts of the Week 2
Cool stuff. This week, we're sharing awesome links to poster printing, design tutorials, socially... -
The End of Print? Not Quite Yet.
DON’T STOP THE PRESSES! "Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion." - Dudley ... -
Death of the Brand, or a New Age of Sustainable Branding?
Intangible value doesn't equal no value. During a period of recession, there are always two schoo... -
Hotcards Interviews Bacchus Press
Green printers! One of the coolest things about being a green printer. is that there’s a great sens... -
Print Design Posts of the Week 3
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Wind Powered Printing
It's catching on. Thusfar in its short history, sustainable printing or green printing has been l... -
Personalized URLs – The Future of Direct Mail?
Great ROIs or empty hype? Thanks to variable data direct mail printing, marketing tools like post... -
Giant Print Ads Tell the Story in Bolt Movie
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Print Takes Over the Web in Second Life
It's bizarro world! We're all used to hearing stories about how web technology, web adverti... -
Union Printing Takes to the Streets in Paris
They've even got balloons! You've got to hand it to those Parisian unions. They know how to throw... -
One Less Day For Direct Mail
USPS plans dramatic cuts. Since 1983, the U.S. Postal Service has been required, by law, to deliv... -
Print Design Posts of the Week 4
Something special for the Print Junkies. Quality in Print: I'm not sure how many printers we have... -
Ban On Digital Billboards in LA
Don’t Stop the Presses! The debate over how much signage should be allowed to fill, decorate, or ... -
Hotcards is in the News!
Because we’re awesome. Cleveland news channel WKYC came by the Hotcards head office this week to ... -
Great Quotes About Printing
Free, democratic, subversive, the engine of immortality… It's been a while since printing was con... -
Print Blog Great Example for News Publishers
Don't die, just adapt! I've spent the last couple of years on this blog trying to get the webosph... -
Print Design Posts of the Week 5
Print Design Posts of the Week 5 We like the funny stuff. Enjoy the best links about printing... -
Use Your Printer to Stay on Top
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25 Random Things About Hotcards.com
Since soooo many printers have been tagging us… Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed ... -
Milk, and the Narrative Power of Print
Every sign tells a story. Every year, around Oscar time, I try to see the big movies of the year.... -
Print Design Posts of the Week 6
This week in printing news… This week's links are more about the design of the printing industry ... -
Would the Death of News Printing Benefit Commercial Printers?
Welcome to touchy-subject-land. Every second piece of news about printing over the last couple of m... -
Print Design Posts of the Week 7
Less gloom, more pretty colors. Last week was pretty grim, so this week I put together a list of li... -
Does the Global Printing Community have any Value?
You’ve got the social network, now what are you supposed to do with it? This morning, I was check... -
Printing Signs of the End Times
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How the Stimulus Plan Affects the Printing Industry
(Hint: it’s not. Not yet, anyway.) As you probably already know, the American Recovery and Reinve... -
Print / Design Posts of the Week 8
Best of the printer-fied web this week. This week's offerings are the usual blend of print stuff,... -
The Politics of Choice in Information Publication, Online and in Print
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Check Out Hotcards on PrintCEO!
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Inkd – A Place For Print Design
Print designers – check this out! Inkd is a new online marketplace geared specifically towards prin... -
Get To Know Our Print Designers…
This week: Glen Infante! Browsing around Inkd the other day, I couldn’t help but notice that they... -
CMYK Set to Drop One Color
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Union Printing at Put People First
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The Best Artistic Printing Websites
Oh, for the glory days… The design community has been abuzz over the last few weeks with the laun... -
Future-Proof Your Recession Print Promotions
Low cost shouldn't mean low quality! During a recession, brands and businesses don't quit a... -
Print / Design Posts of the Week 9
The Easter Bunny goes down the rabbit hole. It's been a while since my last 'best of.' ... -
Using Print to Sell the Image of a Hip Hop Monster
…and not just an image, an entire mythology. Call me a trend geek, but I rarely leave the house i... -
Ridiculously Aggressive Tax Day Tea Bag Protest Signs
Usually we're big supporters of signage… …but some of this stuff makes me wonder what people are ... -
Print Services Need to Change, Not Fight, to Survive
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water." – Bruce ... -
Hocards Design Work Shows Up On Kanye's Blog!
Just another kick*ss mixtape cover… In case I haven't mentioned it enough lately, the design tale... -
Cool Piece of Printing History
From the Ministry of Type With the wealth of information we find online, it can seem like there's... -
Print/Design Posts of the Week – Swine Flu Edition
Because if your printer can't keep you informed, who can? I know there's a lot of you out there d... -
Good Print Design Isn't Always Pretty
And event promotions are most at risk. I was just reading a post on designing collateral for small ... -
Print Unions Save Jobs
Times are tough, but union printers are stepping up. I was talking to a client the other day, and... -
Accountability in Printing
Is it disappearing? Yesterday, a Senate Committee heard the experts of the newspaper and journali... -
Can Print Be For the Web and Survive?
Check out For Print Only to find out! Life is funny. Just a couple of years ago, it was hard to fin... -
What is a Marketing Communications Provider?
Is it the next phase in the evolution of commercial printing? Last Week, the 2009 Offset and Beyond... -
Is the Print Industry Too Protective of its Secrets?
And how, maybe, this recession could turn into a good thing… WhatTheyThink just held their Enviro... -
Biking Beyond Eco-Friendly Printing
Bike-to-Work Week all year round! As a green printer, you're always stuck in a bit of a paradox. ... -
Artwork and Design Inspired By LeBron James
Stay inspired, Cleveland! Sunday night was rough. As I hope you all know, Hotcards is based in Cl... -
Small, Cool Design = Eco Friendly Printing
Good things come in less packaging. One of my favorite design websites (print design aside) is th... -
Great Summer Festival Poster Printing
A.K.A. Fun with Typography Although it's not official, there's something about June 1st that just... -
New Logos, New Print Design…
…are we headed for a new, web-wide world? There seems to be little point in fighting it. Every da... -
Print Industry Mind Map
Courtesy of M-Bossed I'm not sure what the ratios on this blog are in terms of industry types vs.... -
Is Technology Stealing Print's Soul?
Hey! That's a leading question… Computer technology has come to play a central role in the prin... -
Prepare for the Impact of Print Promotion
Let your ISP know about impending traffic spikes. Most successful advertising campaigns don't use... -
Running A Bad Printing Blog
10 Mega-Mistakes Most Printers Make I was just reading a recent post over at Poor Richard's Print... -
New Design Idea of the Week!
The square business card. Business cards are one of the tiniest, but most technically difficult p... -
The 10 Biggest No-Nos Committed by Printing Blogs
(Without Actually Naming Names) Printers, and all small businesses, in fact, are under enormous p... -
The 10 Biggest No-Nos Committed by Printing Blogs Part 2
6 – 10 on the business blog burn chart. Yesterday, I listed 1 to 5 of the worst mistakes a printe... -
Print / Design Posts of the Week 10
Energizer Monday edition. Usually, I like to put up cool links to the best print design stuff aro... -
Printers Make Bankruptcy-Prone List
But what about our customers? A grim little news piece on WhatTheyThink reports today that printe... -
Even Newer Design Idea of the Week!
The Album Cover Ad The days of vinyl records may be long gone, but that doesn’t mean album cover a... -
Michael Jackson Album Covers
Designing a life on the front. The king of pop, Michael Jackson, died yesterday of a heart attack... -
Walmart Launches Printing Services
A cold shiver runs up my spine… I can remember, years ago, when Walmart first began its big box t... -
Hotcards Has A Design Blog!
Art! Videos! Cool Dudes! Maybe you've been printing with Hotcards.com for a while, but did you k... -
Time For (serious, budget-minded) Back-To-School Advertising
Recession-conscious print promotions. The back-to-school spendfest that marks the end of summer i... -
Printing 411
Deep thoughts on printing. The other day, Mike and Andrew from Printing411 got in touch with us h... -
Mad Men Season 3 Key Art Production
From another era? Or is a great ad always a great ad? If you're a designer, if you're a printer,... -
Smart Car Vehicle Wrapping
From business promo to style staple. There's nothing like seeing a really huge, crazy vehicle roa... -
The Ecofont
Impact on Green Printing It was released late in 2008, but I've been waiting for the verdict on t... -
Hotcards Goes to Cairo!
Ads of the World Edition Watch a film or commercial on TV in Egypt, and you'll instantly notice t... -
Platemaking from the Fringe
Print as sculpture; sculpture in print. Today I was prowling around on Printeresting, one of my f... -
Is The 'Death of Print' A Uniquely Western Construct?
And if so, then why? For the past two weeks, I've been living and working in Cairo. And one of th... -
Obama Joker Poster Printing Controversy
Why so serious? It's a rare enough thing for a poster to make news. During the presidential elect... -
The Politics of Un-Design
Does the border signage controversy risks destabilizing our national brand? It's not always elect... -
Cairo Is For Printers
Less babble, more pics! You know what the problem is with writers? Sometimes, we write too much. ... -
What Do People Want From Printers?
That is the question. Monday is always a great day for printing news. If you care about printing.... -
Best Disney/Marvel Mashup Galleries
Now your childhood IS just one big jumble of images! As my many thousands of readers know, I like... -
How Print Advertising Could Help the Health Care Debate
There is such thing as too much information. In a recent video for Time.com, Ze Frank said that w... -
Is Printing The End Of The World?
(Really?) It's something we all learned in grade school: don't waste paper! Paper comes from tree... -
On Labor Day, Hug a Union Printer
Great moments in printing history. Ahh, there's nothing like a four-day week. But did you know t... -
Race For The Cure
Saturday event recap. This Saturday, September 12th, marked the 2009 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cu... -
Designing An On-Point Direct Mail Campaign
How to hit a bullseye every time. What has a better ROI: A blanket direct mail campaign sending t... -
Print News Bailout Talk
But what about the free press? Yesterday, President Obama said that as a "big newspaper junkie" h... -
Designing On-Point Direct Mail Part 2: Writing Great Copy
Contrary to popular belief, yelling doesn't work. There are a lot of different copywriting mistak... -
Print Promotions For Halloween
A pocket of consumer enthusiasm in a slow economy. What's your favorite thing about Halloween? No... -
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Cavs Already Printing Tickets For Playoffs
Game on! Ah, there's nothing like the start of a new season. And no, I'm not talking about autumn... -
Should There Be A Law Against Digitally Altered Images?
We were just trying to have a good time, Photoshop, but you went too far! Weren't we just talking... -
Green Printing: More Than Just a 00' Trend
And not as pricey as the 'trend' tag implies… Ever since the economy has been in the proverbial t... -
What's Wrong With My Business Card?
10 signs that you might need a new one. Business card printing is an investment, which means that... -
Printing for the Real Estate Industry
A nice shout out. Priorities sometimes change during a recession. A business philosophy can start... -
Green Printing: Defining Sustainability for Print
A survival skill for successful printers. When the mid-00s' brought 'green' everything into vogue... -
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Which Print Ads Should You Use For A Large Campaign?
You asked! Recently, several blog readers have asked the same question: what do I need to do to p... -
McDonald's Hosts Idol-Style Competition for Employees
Is the age of the corporate reality show upon us? Is McDonald's giving employees business cards n... -
Union Editors Show Their Grit in the Face of At-Risk Print Jobs
Do you need copy editing? Yes you do! Case in Point The Toronto Star – one of Canada's larges... -
Augmented Reality Business Cards
Goofy gimmick or wave of the future? The correct answer is: wave of the future! Just because it l... -
Newspapers Still Betting on Print
"The idea that this is a good investment isn't crazy." Mortimer B. Zuckerman, owner of The Daily ... -
Printing Tips From Your Political Representatives
Space-saving is for non-winners. Ever since the big bailout made our governing body famous for pri... -
Using Elevators as Print Advertising Vehicles
It's like an inside-out wrap – in print! Vehicle wrapping has been a popular advertising vehicle... -
e-Cards for Christmas – Really?
There are plenty of times to save paper. This is not one of them. We all know that the holidays h... -
This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Printing
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The Gift of Printing, Part 2
Unique holiday goodies at your printer's! Today, our printing gift list continues with some of th... -
In 2010, the Democracy of Print Remains Vital
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Christmas Card Controversy 2009
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Buying White Space
I'll be the first to admit that I don't speak great Japanese. To be honest, I don't speak any Japane... -
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A Happy New Year of Desktop Publishing Congratulations! You got a printer for Christmas! But the ... -
Obama Billboard Raises Issue of Advertising Ethics
Should political figures be fashion models? We don't do a lot of controversial printing at Hotc... -
Is Desktop Printing a Hopeless Technology?
Add it to the list of "Things that shouldn't be done at home." At the beginning of the day, I lik... -
Win Free Stuff From Hotcards!
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Hotcards Makes the Cut on M-Bossed!
Top ten, baby! This post has been way, way too long in coming. Ever since the start of the new y... -
Adobe Pulling Out of the Print Game?
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Green Printing Practices: Direct Mailing List Management
Be green! Scrub that list! For a long time, list management has been an important part of the dir... -
Catalogue Printing for Online Business
A calculated risk. Over the last few years, a trend has been growing among large online business... -
Are New Green Press Plants the Solution?
Pros and cons. As a printer, it's possible to come at sustainable printing strategies from many ... -
Saints Super Bowl Win Good News for Printers
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Will the Hollywood Sign Become Ad Space?
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Why Bother To Redesign Print?
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Fake Storefront Printing!
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Recession-Conscious Postcard Printing
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Bright Lights! Big City! Poster Printing!
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Print Industry Calls it Quits Days Before iPad Takeover
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Union Printers Put At Odds By Press Closures
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Printing Commemorative Tickets
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Design, Design, Design
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