Lets Get Digital

Digital printing refers to methods of printing from a digital based image directly to a variety of media. It usually refers to professional printing where small run jobs from desktop publishing and other digital sources are printed using large format and/or high volume laser or inkjet printers. You would use this process of printing when you are printing from a computer using an ink jet. There are many companies that are using this process such as HP , Dell, and many others. I prefer HP though i love there products

DaFaonts are Hot

Dafont is a web site that lets you download free fonts from many of contributing artist.

Fonts are categorized by theme, and can also be sorted by name, date, and popularity. The site also allows users to enter custom text when previewing fonts. The website is rated between 1,000 to 1,050 across the globe. Some of the top authors are Kimberly Geswein , Manfred Klein , and my Favorite Author Douglas Vitkauskas. The Top Three Fonts are Justice, Jellyka Western Princess, and California.

Printing Process

Engraving

Engraving is a process by which grooves are cut into a hard surface. This process is usually done to create elaborate images, or advertisements on the available surface. Suitable materials for engraving include (but are not limited to) steel, glass, and gold. Engraving by hand has typically been replaced by other means of image and text printing, due in part to the difficulties associated with becoming a master engraver. A more common way of engraving now would be to use a CNC machine, which may even use a laser to engrave certain pieces.

This process was (and still is) typically seen on vases, commemorative plaques, watches, and even headstones for graveyards. Below is an example of how a CNC router/engraver works.

DATRON Engraver

Foundry Review

The Fonts.com™ store from Mono-type Imaging offers more than 150,000 font products for you to preview, purchase and download. You can also learn about new typeface releases and discover typographic tips and techniques.

Based in Woburn, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Germany (Linotype), Mt. Prospect, Ill., Redwood City, Calif., Boulder, Colo., Japan and China, Mono-type Imaging is a global provider of text imaging solutions for manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices. Some of they're besting selling fonts include: Futura, Neue Helvetica, Frutiger, Interstate etc... Here is a link to more popular fonts, and foundries.

Most of their fonts are at more of an affordable price than there competitors for example Fonts.com has a particular font that I like named Lomo. You can buy either the full package of these fonts for $1,661.00 or just specific fonts from the Lomo collection for $54.00 each. There biggest competitor which just about everyone has mentioned in the blogs is Fontshop.com
They offer the same Lomo font but they don't offer it in single fonts, they sell it as a whole with 37 fonts for $1,499.00.

digital imaging printing process:
Gathering your information i.e image, text or both through an analog means like scanning in your document or through a digital means like a camera or word processor document.
converting your information; your file format needs to be converted to a usual file such as TIFF or EPS.

Typeface Profile.

This is one of the most common forms of typeface and is, in fact, notable. The opposing form of typeface wherein the lines in the letters are broken up is known as black-letter. Antiqua type faces are modeled after antique Roman and Carolingian writing. Antiqua typefaces are those designed between about 1470 and 1600, specifically those by Nicolas Jenson and Aldine roman. Antiqua script is called old style, differentiated from modern styles by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs.

History of Type.

Pictogram-History

While cave paintings, dating as far back as 20,000 B.C. are the first evidence of recorded pictures, true written communication is thought to have been developed some 17,000 years later by the Sumerians, around 3500 B.C.

They are known to have recorded stories and preserved records using simple drawings of everyday objects, called pictogram.

Pictogram- Modern uses

Pictogram remain in common use today, serving as pictorial, representational signs, instructions, or statistical diagrams. Because of their graphical nature and fairly realistic style, they are widely used to indicate public toilets, or places such as airports and train stations.Pictographic writing as a modernist poetic technique is credited to Ezra Pound, though French surrealist accurately credit the Pacific Northwest American Indians of Alaska who introduced writing, via totem poles.