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MrBennett

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383 posts

240 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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Hi guys,

I'm looking at getting some business cards and also small flyers made up for a new venture.

Who do you all use for business cards/flyers? Ideally I'm looking for a place that I could send a few JPEGs or something and get some business cards and flyers printed and then delivered to me, but I'm not too sure how these things usually work.

Any places you recommend?


sam.r

2,379 posts

259 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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I use http://www.stationery-direct.co.uk/

No problems and a great team.

The Moose

23,708 posts

240 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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Do you have files that are not jpgs or are your jpgs very high quality??

Cheers

The Moose

MrBennett

Original Poster:

383 posts

240 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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The Moose said:
Do you have files that are not jpgs or are your jpgs very high quality??

Cheers

The Moose
No I haven't created any business card designs yet but that's what I'd expect to do. Is this not the usual approach?

HRG

72,863 posts

270 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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MrBennett said:
The Moose said:
Do you have files that are not jpgs or are your jpgs very high quality??

Cheers

The Moose
No I haven't created any business card designs yet but that's what I'd expect to do. Is this not the usual approach?
Create design (using something like Scribus which is free) then export to .PDF or .EPS ready to send to the printers.


MrBennett

Original Poster:

383 posts

240 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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Does £66 sound about right for 250 A5 flyers?

Jayyy

276 posts

229 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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MrBennett said:
Does £66 sound about right for 250 A5 flyers?
That seems abit steep to me - I got 10,000 A5 flyers from printing.com last week for 99GBP, this was half price as part of their monthly offers for March, but this offer seems to come up every 2 or 3 months, these were only printed on 1 side - full colour, glossy finish.

For business cards look at goodprint.co.uk - first class service, owned by a PH'er i believe.

HTH

Windsorphil

888 posts

293 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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You may like www.moo.com - I've had business cards with a number of different images on the reverse made by them. About £40 for 250.

Phil.

MrBennett

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383 posts

240 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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Jayyy said:
MrBennett said:
Does £66 sound about right for 250 A5 flyers?
That seems abit steep to me - I got 10,000 A5 flyers from printing.com last week for 99GBP, this was half price as part of their monthly offers for March, but this offer seems to come up every 2 or 3 months, these were only printed on 1 side - full colour, glossy finish.

For business cards look at goodprint.co.uk - first class service, owned by a PH'er i believe.

HTH
Thanks

MrBennett

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383 posts

240 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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Windsorphil said:
You may like www.moo.com - I've had business cards with a number of different images on the reverse made by them. About £40 for 250.

Phil.
Different images? Are these images that you control or are they the printer's own adverts?

MrBennett

Original Poster:

383 posts

240 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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MrBennett said:
Windsorphil said:
You may like www.moo.com - I've had business cards with a number of different images on the reverse made by them. About £40 for 250.

Phil.
Different images? Are these images that you control or are they the printer's own adverts?
I see what you mean now. Looks pretty good.

Windsorphil

888 posts

293 months

Sunday 12th April 2009
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I created a load of (about 12) wordclouds using www.wordle.net and saved them as pdf's and used them as the back of my business cards...took a bit of fiddling but was a good result.

jon-

16,534 posts

247 months

Monday 13th April 2009
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MrBennett said:
MrBennett said:
Windsorphil said:
You may like www.moo.com - I've had business cards with a number of different images on the reverse made by them. About £40 for 250.

Phil.
Different images? Are these images that you control or are they the printer's own adverts?
I see what you mean now. Looks pretty good.
Moo is great. Quality surprisingly good too.

jkennyd

3,144 posts

230 months

Monday 13th April 2009
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Anyone thought of Vista print. Will do 250 free + post but quality isnt the best but okay, the quality goes up with the cost.

Duke of Rothesay

671 posts

211 months

Tuesday 14th April 2009
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I use these people: http://www.goodprint.co.uk/index.php

Works fine for me.