creating those yellow direct mail letters

[Alex E.]

I have been trying to create the yellow letters with the yellow note pad paper, but the sentences that I am writing are not aligning with the lines in the yellow paper. Do you have to have the sentences fall perfectly on the yellow paper?

I think the yellow pad paper is lighter in weight than the traditional white paper and so the print shifts it when it prints it.

I first trace the lines of the yellow paper and then write out my content. Then I erase the lines and print it out on the yellow pad paper, but as I said earlier the sentences are not falling neatly on the lines.

Can anyone tell me how they are printing out their letters with yellow note pad paper?

Thanks.

[Andrew Massaro]

That sounds like a lotta work, my friend. Reminds me of the days when I first started and used to personalize and then print, fold, stuff, stamp and address all my mailers. That's before I realized there were companies out there that do it for you. Michael Quarles' Yellow Letter Mail is about the best.

And, to answer your question, no, your sentences do not have to be right on the line. In fact, it looks better if they are not. You don't want the entire sentence to be straight, with a line directly through it, though. You want your writing to kind of be all over the place, as if there were no lines on the paper at all.

Use a red color for your words, too.