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Your printer hates your designs. So I made them print-ready by default.

Your printer hates your designs. So I made them print-ready by default.

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I just shipped Inkpress - an AI-powered tool that generates print-ready business cards, flyers, posters, and restaurant menus from text prompts. The problem Small business owners design something that looks great on screen, send it to a printer, and get back cards with white edges, blurry logos, or colors that look completely different. The gap between "looks good on my monitor" and "prints correctly" is surprisingly wide. Print design has a bunch of technical requirements that have nothing to do with design taste: Bleed : 3mm of artwork extending past the cut line so you don't get white edges Safe zone : keeping text 3-5mm inside the trim so it doesn't get clipped Resolution : 300 DPI minimum (screens are 72-96 DPI) Color mode : CMYK instead of RGB, because ink and light mix differently Most people don't know about any of this until their first print job comes back wrong. What Inkpress does You describe what you want in plain text. Something like: "Business card for my photography stu

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