Moo MiniCard Tutorial - with template!
Since everyone has been asking about our Moo MiniCard adventure, we thought it would be a good idea to follow up with everyone on how to create a high quality Moo MiniCard print. The first thing you need to remember before creating your MiniCard is the dimensions of the card. These cards are VERY small, so try keeping your text to a minimum! The cards are about the length of your thumb. It might seem large, but you really need to keep your message clear (maybe even just use your name).
Now that you understand the size of the card, we have created a small template for you to use to create your MiniCard. We have experienced some issues with the preview function on the Moo Web site. If you increase the dimensions of the design it won’t show a preview for cropping. So we came up with a pretty good MEDIUM dimension that we use in our template. Note that if you decide you want to test it out to get higher quality, you can increase the dimensions. But don’t get mad at us if you are expecting a VERY high quality print from our template, this is just to help you out!
Be sure that your design is in CMYK.
Be sure that your design is in 300DPI.
Be sure that you have used a pantone color in the color libraries (Adobe).
From our experience, black seems to come out the most clear (obviously), so keep that in mind while designing your MiniCard. You can’t get too creative with the MiniCard because the print will not be clear, so stay away from SMALL TEXT and BLURRY or THIN fonts. From our experience, Rockwell and Helvetica are very good fonts to use.
The Moo MiniCards are mainly designed for Flickr and social network users wanting to print their photographs. So keep in mind that the benefit of designing your card through Moo is the custom cut. Many times, customers might find the dimensions of the card to be so interesting that they completely forget about what could be “lacking” in print quality.
Still confused? Here is a quick step-by-step.
1. Go to Moo.com and click on the product, “MiniCards.”
2. Click on the option that informs you to either choose a social network or UPLOAD YOUR OWN.
3. Upload the image that you have made (hopefully our specs and template helped you).
4. Crop your image. If you are not seeing a preview for the image, then you have chosen to increase your dimensions and thus this problem occurs. You can continue to try if you would like, but we have yet to try it without the preview.
5. Upload. Choose. Purchase. Wait!
Dec 12th 2007
man, i love you.
i was getting mad at the ******* moo website and you saved me, thanks A LOT
t.
Apr 23rd 2008
The problem is that moo doesn’t let you save in CMYK. They specifically ask for a JPEG. There is no such thing as a CMYK JPEG.