Printing Christmas cards

loloray

Hi, can anyone recommend me a place to get Christmas cards printed? For starters, I have five designs, and would like 100 of each (5 x 100).
I'm having trouble finding the best price.

Basically everyone involved in the Christmas cards is working for free, so all the money spend on the cards minus printing and postage will go to charity (for cancer).
I would of course like the cards to be big and great quality. However, as the most important thing is gaining as much money for charity as possible, everything else is variable (e.g. size, quality, if they come packaged or if I have to do that myself). We can edit the design ourselves to any specifications.

For a good price, we would happily put the printer's logo/website on the back of the cards.
Or even would anyone be able to do this in a home office and I could pay for the materials and ink??

Not only am I having trouble, getting a good price, I am even having trouble getting any sort of quotes. For example, I went into Snap Printing on the quays the other day and was told I wouldn't even get a rough estimate until I emailed them the image of what I want (I told them the quantities needed, and said that size and quality of paper are variables, I just need the cheapest price)! Argh! So I'll obviously never bother them with my business ever again!

Thanks for any recommendations.

xia

MOO might not be in the price range you have in mind, but maybe still worth having a try. The quality is definitely very good.

AnCatDubh

I'm nearly sure I saw something in reads (nassau street) when I was in there a number of weeks back, but I don't see anything listed on their web site so I could be wrong. Might be worth a call though.

minikin

Hi loloray,

you need to stick to standard sizes: A4 folding to A5, A5 folding to A6, A6 folding to A7 etc for starters. The last one is the cheapest obviously BUT it's you're decision as you need to also provide cards people are going to want rather than just throw in the bin after christmas. From that point of view quality can't be a variable.

1. pick what size card & stock you want.
2. if you're designing it yourself... make sure you know what you're doing or you'll be charged artwork fees to correct it.
3. supply a print ready pdf
4. request a quote.

This is the right way to do it... otherwise you're asking them to estimate the length of a piece of twine & shouldn't be surprised if they don't drop what they're doing to faff about with your query.

Avila

loloray wrote: »

Hi, can anyone recommend me a place to get Christmas cards printed? For starters, I have five designs, and would like 100 of each (5 x 100).
I'm having trouble finding the best price.

Basically everyone involved in the Christmas cards is working for free, so all the money spend on the cards minus printing and postage will go to charity (for cancer).
I would of course like the cards to be big and great quality. However, as the most important thing is gaining as much money for charity as possible, everything else is variable (e.g. size, quality, if they come packaged or if I have to do that myself). We can edit the design ourselves to any specifications.

For a good price, we would happily put the printer's logo/website on the back of the cards.
Or even would anyone be able to do this in a home office and I could pay for the materials and ink??

Not only am I having trouble, getting a good price, I am even having trouble getting any sort of quotes. For example, I went into Snap Printing on the quays the other day and was told I wouldn't even get a rough estimate until I emailed them the image of what I want (I told them the quantities needed, and said that size and quality of paper are variables, I just need the cheapest price)! Argh! So I'll obviously never bother them with my business ever again!

Thanks for any recommendations.

Take a look at www.shakespearephotobooks.com. I got some good quality cards there

stcstc

what size cards do you want etc

someone with a colour laser could maybe produce some ok results, i have done this kind of thing on my colour laser


but it kind of depends on what you need.