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Joey
03-28-2008, 07:21 PM
I am looking for a website that I can buy reasonably priced business cards with my picture uploaded.

Thank you so much!

TJ
03-28-2008, 11:04 PM
I always make my own with Microsoft Publisher. They do the trick and the price is right.

Sir Toony Van Dukes
03-28-2008, 11:29 PM
I have not made clown business cards, but I have done the print your own. Most office supply stores have the business card paper templates. I have also gone with vistaprint.com. The offer "free" cards if you play the shipping and handling (less than $10 last time I ordered). I am not sure if the free cards allow you to design your own.

Lolly Plop
03-28-2008, 11:38 PM
I just ordered some from 123Print: Business Cards $3.95 and Custom Printing (http://www.123print.com) Their prices are good and it was easy to upload and design card. I should be getting them this week so I'll let you know how I like them.

Twinkles
03-29-2008, 08:51 PM
This is where several people I know get their cards from...
You can get full color on both sides for a very reasonable rate...
Say, you wanted 10,000 cards, both sides in color, it's $95.

GotPrint: Full Color Printing (http://gotprint.net/g/showStaticPage.do?page=business_cards_pricing.html )

Lolly Plop
03-29-2008, 11:44 PM
I got my cards today. I'm not really happy with them, my photo came out darker than it is on my computer. I want to get a better picture anyway so back to the drawling board.

Scruffy
03-30-2008, 12:13 AM
GotPrint (http://www.gotprint.com)

Bumbles
03-30-2008, 06:42 AM
I use Avery it comes with templets ect, also use Microsoft offoce Word to do my set-up and print them out on the Avery site.

TIC TOC
03-30-2008, 01:07 PM
I Beleive Web Sites Are Great Tools But I Prefer To Use Local Printers For Most Of My Needs I Find Not Only Does It Keep Money Localy But My Little Repair Shop Receives Referals From Them Which Helps Offset Costs

Jims
04-03-2008, 10:37 PM
I got mine from VistaPrint, cheap and I uploaded my own picture.

Pickles
04-04-2008, 07:24 AM
Check out thecardconnection.com

They've done my cards several times now, and I'm always pleased. Instead of a traditional business card, the cards are like trading cards, bigger and usually with a color photo on one side and all the info on the other. The idea is that people are more likely to save the card if it's a trading card. The cost is $97 for 1000 cards and the contact is Janell. Good luck.

Fitzwilly
04-04-2008, 03:07 PM
That must be why your name and picture seemed vaguely familiar to me. One of your cards was in the sample pack that Janell sent out a year or two ago.

Pickles
04-04-2008, 04:45 PM
You're right, Fitzwilly! My card WAS a sample. Geez, how did you remember that? Did she do your cards too?

Fitzwilly
04-04-2008, 05:41 PM
No, I have never had her do my cards but I have talked to her a couple of times and I keep an idea morgue of clown cards that I pull out when it is time to reorder and I am considering a change.

Cubby T. Clown & Cuddles
04-06-2008, 12:32 AM
We agree with Tic Tock. We started out making our own business cards on the computer but when we were ready to do volume we went to our local printer. We've referred several people to them 'cause they did such a good job, and they've referred several to us!

Hopscotch the clown
04-29-2008, 12:53 PM
I am looking for a website that I can buy reasonably priced business cards with my picture uploaded.

Thank you so much!

Vistaprint may be an option for you.

Bodiddly
05-12-2008, 11:11 PM
I just got mine done at Staples. 500 cards for $49.81. That includes a $20.00 set up fee.

Bonkers #361
05-13-2008, 05:05 AM
Bodiddly, I got mine at staples too. I made them on the computer at home. Printed a sheet, Took them up there and it was the wrong size for their machine. They girl worked with it and it turned out better than what I did! I highly recommend my Staples! And they were done in 15 min. All under $50 for 500 how cool is that

Bodiddly
05-13-2008, 08:34 AM
Yea I sent then a picture and told them what else I wanted on them . We exchanged 2 or 3 emails to get the font and the color of the print the way I wanted. The hole process took about 2 hrs .$6.00 a hundrend after the $20.00 set up fee is cheep.

Sassy Frass
05-13-2008, 08:42 AM
I always make my own with Microsoft Publisher. They do the trick and the price is right.


Can you show us your work?
I would like to see if that would work for me...

CheckerZ
05-13-2008, 10:58 AM
I've also ordered mine from Staples, but I used a template they had. It turned out really good!! I'm about to order more

Markie
05-17-2008, 03:27 PM
I just ordered mine from PsPrint - PsPrint | Online Color Printing for Business Cards, Postcards, Brochures & More (http://www.psprint.com) - the price is right and I've seen good work out of them, so I expect the best. I'll let everyone know when I get them, my estimated delivery date is May 28th.

PsPrint has always done our church well, the thing you have to be careful of is that they have pretty exact specifications on their products - 2" x 3.5"; CMYK color, 0.125" safety margin, 0.125" bleed over, all fonts have to be embedded or outlined, Acrobat 4 PDF format or EPS. If you meet the specifications for their press exactly, you should get good results. If you send them some random JPEG file, they'll print it as long as it's the right size but don't expect good results.

Here's the front of mine:

http://comicexpressions.com/comicexpcardpg1.jpg

and the back:

http://comicexpressions.com/comicexpcardpg2.jpg

Until now I've printed my cards at Costco putting 3 on a 4x6 print and cutting them up myself. The cost per is just a hair higher than printing 1000 of these at a time. I decided to go with the PsPrint cards for convenience (no cutting) and the fact that they print the back. The downside - the quality is NOT as good as photographic output (it's pretty good, but nothing can compare to a real photographic print)

P.S. to clarify the cost is like $50 shipped for 1000 printed full color on both sides.