Business Cards

[eightseventhree]

I have been asked to price up some business cards for a mate of mine that i have designed.

I know there are loads of Cheap places online to get them but what sorta costs should i be looking at for decent quotes etc . .

looking at 250 initially with more to follow.

How much setup costs printing costs etc

Thanks

[scubadude]

FWIW I just bought some custom made ones from a local print company, £32 for 200!

My wife then ordered 200 from VistaPrint for nothing but postage costs...

Difference? Mine are shiny finish hers are matt, but hers are double sided, so in the end just as good IMO.

[jon-]

www.moo.com

[Louis.]

scubadude said:

FWIW I just bought some custom made ones from a local print company, £32 for 200!

My wife then ordered 200 from VistaPrint for nothing but postage costs...

Difference? Mine are shiny finish hers are matt, but hers are double sided, so in the end just as good IMO.

What do you think of the quality of the cards from vistaprint ? You see I am looking at stationary printers and vistaprint is one on my list, but i don't want to waste my time with a company that will provide me with a flimzy business card that will not last long at all.

Any ideas on companies people ? Something I was thinking of was gloss lamination to add strength to paper weight ?

[Simpo Two]

I used Vistaprint once and they were pretty crap, and I got plenty of junk e-mails afterwards.

Double-sided cards aren't so clever once they're in a card file...

I get my cards properly designed, then a local printer makes the plates and prints them. The card is often people's first impression of my business, so I'm not cutting any corners (not even literally!)

[stepej]

I've used Goodprint for business cards, letterheads and postcards...

Good quality, fast turnaround, he's a ph'er and if you search around there's a thread somewhere with a discount code to use......

[Louis.]

stepej said:

I've used Goodprint for business cards, letterheads and postcards...

Good quality, fast turnaround, he's a ph'er and if you search around there's a thread somewhere with a discount code to use......

Thanks for the link. I am giving them a look now. Tried to find the dicsount code, but nothing came up.

[eightseventhree]

Have been quoted £100 for 250 thats with all setup costs then after that just pay for cards. . . thats friend of a friend aparently very good printers

seems expensive

[LDNrevs]

scubadude said:

FWIW I just bought some custom made ones from a local print company, £32 for 200!

My wife then ordered 200 from VistaPrint for nothing but postage costs...

Difference? Mine are shiny finish hers are matt, but hers are double sided, so in the end just as good IMO.

Avoid Vista IMO. I had some done as flyers just to throw out at events and the like; the quality is not good.

[jon-]

eightseventhree said:

Have been quoted £100 for 250 thats with all setup costs then after that just pay for cards. . . thats friend of a friend aparently very good printers

seems expensive

Seriously, check out www.moo.com . It's a matt finish but it's two sided and excellent quality card.

I wasn't disappointed, and I'm extremely anal!

[Mattt]

Vistaprint are serial spammers, for that reason - I will never use them.

They also allegedly ran a 'scam' a while back making people sign up to a monthly package.

[Taita]

Get yourself to goodprint.com (iirc). Run by Coyft who is a PHer.

[hab1966]

Haven't used them (yet) but someone from http://www.fullphatprint.co.uk/ is a PH member.

[nigel79]

dont use vistaprint. my girlfriend used them for some cards, she paid the postage on her debit card, then found that they were taking monthly payments out of her account. she had a difficult time with them and ended up threating them with court action. they gave her some excuse that when you order from them you automatily are signed up to there monthly membership. there too cheap for a reason.

[Phoenix]

+1 for Full Phat. Excellent service, good quality and quick delivery. A very helpful chap too.

[sgrimshaw]

nigel79 said:

dont use vistaprint. my girlfriend used them for some cards, she paid the postage on her debit card, then found that they were taking monthly payments out of her account. she had a difficult time with them and ended up threating them with court action. they gave her some excuse that when you order from them you automatily are signed up to there monthly membership. there too cheap for a reason.

I've heard of this, but I can only speak as I find.

I ordered some cards from Vistaprint and found the quality to be excellent. I have had no problems with additional payments being taken etc.

[jkennyd]

I've used vistaprint on many occasions. The free isnt great but its free ffs. If you pay the cash the quality goes up