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Acrobat User Community
If you are excited and passionate about learning more about Adobe Acrobat, the Acrobat User Community is the perfect way to learn about the latest features, meet other users, and share ideas with other members and Acrobat experts.

Astro Converters
Introducing your one-stop supplier for all of your specialty paper needs! Astro Converters now carries announcement sizes in all of your favorite papers including, but not limited to the Curious Collection, CTI’s Constellation Jade, Stardream and even the new Chiara and Fuse colors!

Color Marketing Group
Color Marketing Group is the premier international association for color design professionals. Their mission is to create color forecast information for professionals who design and market color. Color Marketing Group is “the” place for color info exchange.

CreativePro
Are you crazy about Quark? Do you fantasize about Photoshop? Dream about Dreamweaver? When you close your eyes, do you see CMYK spots and dots or RGB bits and bytes? If so, CreativePro is your place.

Designers Network
A comprehensive international online design directory, Designers Network covers everything from artists and illustrators to product design, media design and many other resources.

Design Tools Monthly
The executive summary of graphic design news, Design Tools Monthly is not another thing to read, it’s a unique, time-saving resource that summarizes important stories from magazines and websites for the graphic design professional.

Graphic Competitions
Graphic Competitions was born on April 1998. It was created and it’s currently managed by Francesco Natali, 29 years old from Italy. It lists all graphic competitions for the year – a great resource for graphic artists wanting to show off their work.

LCI Paper
Creating invitations has never been easier… Whether you’re looking to find that perfect invitation or hoping to get some inspiration and create your own, LCI  Paper has everything you need!

Linotype
Linotype has one of the world’s largest font libraries. They offer more than 12,000 original, high-quality fonts from classic to cool in OpenType, TrueType and PostScript.

Museum of Printing
The Museum of Printing is dedicated to preserving the history of the graphic arts, printing equipment and printing craftsmanship. In addition to many special collections and small exhibits, the museum contains hundreds of antique printing, typesetting and bindery machines, as well as a library of books and printing related documents. They also have interesting workshops, lectures and events.

PrintPlanet.com
PrintPlanet.com is increasingly important to printers, graphic media and print services providers. The forums put you in contact with individuals on the cutting edge of prepress, print production, post press, personalization printing, and more.

Stock Index Online
The online resource of specialist stock photography libraries and their websites, Stock Index Online is perfect for the graphic artist looking for that special photo.

The Art Directors Club of WA, DC
Formed in 1953, The Art Director’s Club of WA, DC keeps the creative community informed about design and the professional aspects of design, and helps the business community understand the power and value of good design.

The Design & Publishing Center
The eZine for design, typography, and graphics, The Design & Publishing Center includes articles and a forum about subjects ranging from tips for photoshop to Website design and more.

The Paper Mill Store
Offering tools and resources to expand your creative possibilities, The Paper Mill Store – a division of CTI Paper Group is the place to go for paper, graphic books, envelope printing, paper cutting, templates, stock photography and much more.

Tintbook
Use Tintbook, you can check CMYK color charts to choose 4-color process tints for printing projects. The CMYK color solution for graphic designers and printers, Tintbook is a perfect companion to all graphic design software. Save time picking CMYK screen tint combinations at the design concept stage, and eliminate guesswork. Each volume contains over 25,000 CMYK colors.

Unisource Canada
Unisource is Canada’s national supplier of over 80,000 paper, printing, imaging, graphic arts, packaging and maintenance supplies and equipment. From packaging supplies to cleaning chemicals to paper and ink for a printing press or copier, Unisource Canada provides not only the product, but also the expertise to help businesses buy easily and run cost-effectively.

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