How To Make Your Notepads Useful

By: Colleen Davis
Submitted: 2009-07-02 12:39:19
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A lot of people who print notepads these days are getting to the point where their notepad printing isn't really useful. With overdrawn marketing goals, some custom print notepads utterly fail at being useful for people. They become just glorified fliers with space for some notes. To prevent your own notepad printing from this same fate, we will teach you how to make your notepads better and useful for your market. Here are five tips on how to do this.

• Functional dimensions – First, you must remember to keep your notepads within functional dimension standards. You don’t want your notepads to get too small that it hardly counts as a notepad, and you also don’t want it to be too big that it just wastes paper for your notes. Many marketing notepads really fail in using functional dimensions since the designers only take into account how to display the marketing message and not the space for notes. So try to prevent this from happening in your own notepads. Choose the appropriate dimension of notepads that can carry your message but still be large enough for a normal notepad.

• Appropriate shapes – Also, a lot of designers these days are getting carried away with their notepad shapes. The early designs were still great. Like the heart shaped notepads, or even the circular and square type notepads. However, other so called innovative designers have taken notepad shapes to a ridiculous level, making octopus shaped notepads or other oddly shaped ones. While this may be cute on some level, this may also be detrimental to a notepad’s usefulness. That is why as much as possible you should aim for shapes that have a great and wide area to write on. Oddly shaped notepads where you can not write in a straight sentence are hardly useful and should not really be done in the first place.

• Good binding - Another thing to note to make your notepads useful is the binding of the notepad. Most notepads these days are tear away notepads with adhesives on top of them. These adhesives should be easy enough to damage so that you can tear off notepads one by one, but they should also be strong enough to hold on together. If it is not strong enough, your notepad will undoubtedly break apart before it has a chance to be useful. This makes it pertinent to print notepads with good binding adhesives to make their lives and their usefulness longer.

• Minimalist watermark design – Also, another important point to consider to make your notepads really useful is your watermark design. While watermarks are indeed good to fill in empty space in your notepads, a very vibrant and large design can really be detrimental to a notepad’s usefulness. You may be able to write on a notepad with vibrant watermarks, but it might be hard to understand what you wrote. To avoid this, it is usually best to just be minimalist with your watermark design. It must be really light and really subtle. This perseveres the usefulness of the notepad with the illusion of space, while it still fill sin that space with a subtle design.

• Proper headers and footers – Finally for a truly proper and useful notepad, you should not forget to add in some proper headers and footers. Having these extra design details on top and at the bottom of all your pages in your notepad can complete a good notepad design. They frame a notepad emphasizing the empty space where you should write in your notes. Also of course, these elements are also useful for adding in a marketing message or just a public relations ploy of exposing the company logo. Whatever the case, these headers and footers rounds up notepad printing designs beautifully making a notepad attractive and of course useful at the same time for marketing and business.

So that is how you really handle notepads. You make them useful and still eye catching at the same time. Just apply these tips on your own printing of notepads and you should have great notepads for distribution or for personal use.

For more information, you can visit this page on notepad printing

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