Online Business Card Printing?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by tarponkeith, Nov 8, 2007.

  1. #1
    Along with one of the projects I'm working on, the client wants business cards...

    Has anyone used one of the online services to order custom business cards from? If so, how did they turn out?

    Thanks
     
    tarponkeith, Nov 8, 2007 IP
  2. Kerosene

    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    I ordered some mini cards from moo.com, and they turned out great.
    They're not for everyone (they're tiny!), but if your clients have a shred of coolness about them, then they're worth a shot.

    They're not exactly cheap - $25 USD for 100 cards, delivered anywhere in the world - probably cheaper if you're in the UK.
    But the nice thing is, you can have a different pic on each card - if you can be bothered to upload 100 different designs. If you have 10 designs, you'll get 10 of each - if you have 100 designs, you'll get 1 of each.


    And yes, I did steal most of the pics. But these cards are for personal use only :)
    *I've photoshopped my details off the back of that white card...

    [​IMG]
     
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    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    #3
    Thanks for the response...

    Those look a little too trendy for this project, but I might order some just for me to check them out :)
     
    tarponkeith, Nov 8, 2007 IP
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    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    For personal use, they rock.
    And they come in a cool little box. It's almost painful to give the cards away to friends. :)
    [​IMG]
     
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    We have used Vistaprint and have been happy with the result.
     
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    Give 8everything a shout - her design business Nufrosh do great quality work at a very reasonable rate.
     
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    Thanks countryboy :)


    I got my cards printed online via overnightprints.com and the cards came in printed amazingly! I absolutely love the quality and price. :)
     
    8everything, Nov 8, 2007 IP
  8. tarponkeith

    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    wow, just checked out the nufrosh.com portfolio, very nice... but the cards are already designed, just need someone to print them...
     
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    I've used printrunner.com several dozen times for different clients. Amazing quality, even better pricing. They'll turn them around in about 3 days, which is good enough for me. I haven't had a single complaint, except one time where UPS damaged my box, but printrunner reprinted it at no cost, without all the usual "you have to deal with UPS" BS. Try them.
     
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  10. Stax_Daniel

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    i use vistaprint...with my own designs, they turn out very nice...i highly recommend them, and they always have some sort of sale going on.
     
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    hmmm
    whats the going rate for say a thousand cards
     
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    I use Vista Print for my business. They are awesome and ship very fast.
     
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    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    I just put in an order with them yesterday, for the $3.99 deal... So it's pretty good quality?
     
    tarponkeith, Nov 12, 2007 IP
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    I've ordered about 10K business cards from them (in 500-1000 packages) and i've only had an issue with one set, and that was my fault...I didn't make my image the correct size

    The other ~9.5K have been perfect
     
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    Has anyone compared vista to overnightprints? Do they offer the glossy and thick paper that overnightprints does?
     
    8everything, Nov 13, 2007 IP
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    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    I ordered some from vista, next I was going to try overnightprints...

    But look at the difference:

    Vista - 250 cards - $3.99
    OverNightPrints - 250 cards - $24.99

    For single-sided matte prints...
     
    tarponkeith, Nov 13, 2007 IP
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    Hmm.. that's a huge difference, but what about their more premium quality prints? Double sided, full color gloss?
     
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    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    I'm not sure, I'm going to check out both of them using the full color matte first...

    I'm leaving myself a reminder in outlook to post photos here when I get the shipment from vista in a couple weeks...
     
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    i was going to use 5000cards.com
     
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    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    No time to post photos now, but I just received the cards from vistaprint.com, and they're great... amazing deal, 3.99 for 100 cards, plus $4.00 shipping...

    I'll take some snapshots later and upload them... Next I'm going to order some from overnightprints just to compare them...
     
    tarponkeith, Nov 22, 2007 IP