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09/06/2011 04:31:55 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Hmmmm... I know you said you wanted to pay someone else to print business cards for you. That's fine, if you have the money and the tolerance for mistakes. However, no one can print my business cards better than I can. Since I place my own photographs on my cards to encourage sales, they must be printed correctly. So, I suppose if one cannot print their own prints, then one should delegate this task to a print shop. Or, if you are making 10,000 business cards, then it makes sense to outsource. I change the image on my cards on a regular basis... usually reflecting a recent popular image for sale in the gallery. Avery® Clean Edge Inkjet Business Cards, White, Glossy Finish, 200/Pack are not cheap, but they are on heavy stock and do have a clean edge. So, they work great for me. Customers to my store, and prospective customers elsewhere, really like my cards. I insist on printing my cards correctly with my printer so I can control the quality. |
Well, I am ignorant when it comes to the prices of ink and such.. but it seems to me that you don't have too bad of a deal by printing them yourself since most places that I've seen, you pay like 20 cents a card or more anyways yet you're paying 12 cents per blank business card. |
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09/06/2011 04:53:22 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by Revecca:
...Well, I am ignorant when it comes to the prices of ink and such.. but it seems to me that you don't have too bad of a deal by printing them yourself since most places that I've seen, you pay like 20 cents a card or more anyways yet you're paying 12 cents per blank business card. |
Good analysis! However, not considering the sunk cost depreciation on the printer, the ink on those cards would be close to another 12 cents per card. I don't print them myself because it's a cost saving. My purpose is to control of image quality and color. I buy the one sided stock with the glossy print paper surface. It's very much like handing out little photo samplers to people. |
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09/06/2011 05:01:35 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Originally posted by Revecca:
...Well, I am ignorant when it comes to the prices of ink and such.. but it seems to me that you don't have too bad of a deal by printing them yourself since most places that I've seen, you pay like 20 cents a card or more anyways yet you're paying 12 cents per blank business card. |
Good analysis! However, not considering the sunk cost depreciation on the printer, the ink on those cards would be close to another 12 cents per card. I don't print them myself because it's a cost saving. My purpose is to control of image quality and color. I buy the one sided stock with the glossy print paper surface. It's very much like handing out little photo samplers to people. |
Sounds a lot better than having to sent your design somewhere, and wait for turn-around time, and shipping expenses etc. Plus, like you said, you get to make sure they look exactly how you want them! Not to mention, like you said you do, you can change the design whenever you want instead of pre-ordering several hundred of them and then being stuck with those. You've got the right idea ;)
Unless you need 50,000 of them.. in which case, a professional printer it is! LOL |
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09/06/2011 06:37:16 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Revecca:
Originally posted by hahn23:
Hmmmm... I know you said you wanted to pay someone else to print business cards for you. That's fine, if you have the money and the tolerance for mistakes. However, no one can print my business cards better than I can. Since I place my own photographs on my cards to encourage sales, they must be printed correctly. So, I suppose if one cannot print their own prints, then one should delegate this task to a print shop. Or, if you are making 10,000 business cards, then it makes sense to outsource. I change the image on my cards on a regular basis... usually reflecting a recent popular image for sale in the gallery. Avery® Clean Edge Inkjet Business Cards, White, Glossy Finish, 200/Pack are not cheap, but they are on heavy stock and do have a clean edge. So, they work great for me. Customers to my store, and prospective customers elsewhere, really like my cards. I insist on printing my cards correctly with my printer so I can control the quality. |
Well, I am ignorant when it comes to the prices of ink and such.. but it seems to me that you don't have too bad of a deal by printing them yourself since most places that I've seen, you pay like 20 cents a card or more anyways yet you're paying 12 cents per blank business card. |
My suggestion(see below) is based on the same principle, except that I have my cards (and my prints) printed on photo paper by a photo lab, rather than having my own inkjet printer. A 4x6 print costs between 10-15 cents depending on the lab and current pricing, so I figure business cards cost about 5 cents each. (I've paid extra to get some on metallic paper, but even then they cost less than 20 cents/card).
I do have to cut up the cards myself, but they have a nice rotary trimmer where I pick up the prints, so I just do a few every time I go.
Plus, since, most of my prints are 8x10, but they are printed on 8x12 paper, every time I order an enlargement I get two "free" business cards printed on the extra space.
Besides business cards, I'm starting to format bookmarks from my panoramic pictures -- I put on my email and gallery link, and can get 2-3 on each 4x6 print. Punch a small hole and add a nice piece of string, ribbon or yarn and you have a cheap promo piece which is a bit different |
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09/06/2011 06:38:54 PM · #30 |
 GeneralE, you make an excellent point.. and idea! |
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12/11/2013 03:31:49 PM · #31 |
| Business cards get thrown away 96% of the time, try a custom promo product. Some good places you can get them online are 4imprint, customonit.com, branders, Leeds... just to name a few. |
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12/11/2013 04:23:35 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by JerryJack:
Business cards get thrown away 96% of the time, try a custom promo product. Some good places you can get them online are 4imprint, customonit.com, branders, Leeds... just to name a few. |
Dear Paul,
we love seeing new members here on DPC, but when the first two posts you make are in response to some very old questions you dug up, and both posts promote the same business, it feels a little.... ummmm....... odd.
You wouldn't be a spammer, would you? |
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