July 13, 2007
Four-Color Postcards Stand Out Among The Rest
Theres nothing that stands out more in a pile of mail that something printed in four-color processing. Its colorful beyond the other pieces coming from the mailbox, making any advertisement printed in this manner stand out. Real estate postcards printed in this manner have great advertising value, meaning a potential increase in business.
Four-color processing is the the manner in which a printer uses to print items with multiple colors. It would be virtually impossible on a printing machine to have every single color that is used to print something like a photo. Instead the photo is broken down, along with other items on the page, into four colors cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, or CMYK. A negative is made of each of the four colors, and when the ink is applied it looks like the photo.
For a real estate postcard, the four-color processing can be very appealing and attractive. This is a mailing that a real estate agent wants to stand out to be noticed. Being printed in four-color as opposed to black and one or two other colors, it will stand out among the other pieces of mail. These real estate cards can be used to advertise houses just listed, houses just sold, recipes to entice business, etc.
These four-color postcards can either be smaller at 4.25 x 5.5 or larger at 5.5 x 8.5. Along with having appealing houses pictured on the postcards in four-color, a real estate agents logo, name, and contact information can be added in as well. As the postcards will stand out above the rest of the mail, a potential client is apt to remember the great details and colorful components of the advertising, and when the client is ready to buy or sell, they will remember the agent from the four-color postcard that stood out among the rest.











