[V12]

I have latly noticed a trend of all the parties and events i go to: Candy with custom wrappers. I want to know if i cna possibly get into this business as i am fairly artistic and looking to make some side money while i am in school. Would i need something like my a print shop or print master, or are there programs out there that have templates set up?

Any info is apprchiated, as well as other reconmendations to make some money on the side in some sort or related way.

Thanks in advance, i apprichate it.

[V12]

bump, please help guys any info is apprechiated.

[cpac]

um - I think you'd need a big candy-wrapper-printer type thing, and then you'd have to figure out what software is out there to drive it. Most of these parties probably ordered the custom wrapped candies from some service on the internet where it's the candy company becoming more flexible with their products, not somebody with a computer deciding to get into the custom-candywrapper business.

Regardless, software is probably secondary to your need for hardware. Figure out where you can get wrappers - what you need to print on them, and then worry about what software you need to get to drive those printers.

If it's just graphical design you're into - then stick with that - let somebody else do the printing and wrapping.

[V12]

well the wrap i am talking about just goes over the actual candy bar, i have several chocolate bars from parties and its jut anotehr layer of paper around it, semi-gloss paper with pictures and nice looking fonts. i just demoed a little on my print master on my pc, i sort of made my own template, still wondering if there is anything better out there, expecailly a program for the mac.

[cpac]

Originally posted by V12:
well the wrap i am talking about just goes over the actual candy bar, i have several chocolate bars from parties and its jut anotehr layer of paper around it, semi-gloss paper with pictures and nice looking fonts. i just demoed a little on my print master on my pc, i sort of made my own template, still wondering if there is anything better out there, expecailly a program for the mac.

ok, well if you've already got a printer that works, then you can use pretty much anything to create and print labels/content. Almost everything has the ability to work with or create templates these days, and even if it doesn't there's always the possibility of using the Finder's "stationary pad" feature to effectively make a template.

You should maybe be a bit more specific about what precisely you want the program to do - Text manipulation? Graphical layout? Drawing? Painting? Pro or consumer level features?

[V12]

basically all of what you said, i got all the measurements of the size of of paper i would need to wrap it say around a hersey chocolate bar. What program would you reconmend that i can use that has great pictures/graphcs/backrounds/fonts/ et cetra.

i'm currently looking at print shop on apple.com, can anyone give feedback on thsi???

[cpac]

So it sounds like what you really want is a nice little clip-art-y sort of program - not professional tools for creating images from scratch or anything like that.

Why don't you look on Versiontracker.com or Macupdate.com and do a couple searches/read reviews...

[V12]

alright thanks, btw- what is is the stationary pad, i can't find it.

[V12]

bump... anyy more info macnner's?

[tooki]

Stationery. (Stationary means "not moving".)

Stationery Pad is an option in the Get Info window of a document, in the Finder. It turns it into a template. When you double-click on it, rather than opening the file in the program, it opens a new copy of it in the app and leaves the Stationery Pad unchanged.

tooki

[V12]

*confused*

[cpac]

Originally posted by V12:
*confused*

umm - just try it. Or at least say what you're confused about.

[theolein]

Originally posted by V12:
*confused*

If you look at a document in the Finder and press Command-I, it'll open an information window on that document. It's a bit like the properties window for a file on Windows. IN the information window, there is, near the top, a checkbox with the words "Stationary pad" next to it. If you select that and close the window. Anytime you double click that document in the Finder, it will be copied in the Finder and the copy will be opened in its stead. That way the original works as a template.

I think you're in way over your head, to be honest. But kudos for being enterprising in any case.

[V12]

bump

[AKcrab]

Originally posted by V12:
bump

bump what? you have a question?

[jfinete]

This thread reminds me of several years ago, when everyone with a Mac and a laser printer thought they could get into the business card printing business. No offense, V12, but you don't seem to know the slightest bit about any aspect of what you're proposing.