Business cards: who's best to use

[Marvin]

Just that really. The band needs some business cards printed up. Is there anywhere that's recommended? I'd just go to Vista Print I suppose 

 

Ta

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I get mine from printed.com

 

 

[Cliff Edge]

I’ve always been happy with VistaPrint. 

[JapanAxe]

I’ve used Vistaprint but carefully avoided all the upsells!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[SimonK]

 

[Norris]

Vistaprint here. It's handy that you can just order a reprint when you run low.

[jezzaboy]

I use a mob called Banana Print. You can design your own and save it. They look great, very good prices and super fast delivery. Ordered Sunday and delivered Wednesday.

[Acebassmusic]

Recently I ordered some cards from Printed.com I needed quickly. Pricing looked good so I went throught the process of artwork / create account / upload / payment details etc etc. Got to the very end and the price for 250 had gone up from £21 to £30 🤔 I hadn't realised the initial price was ex-VAT (which was also added to the shipping cost) No idea on the quality of them as they havent arrived yet. 

[HeadlessBassist]

A Trombonist friend of mine had some great comedy business cards in the 90s. They said something like;

 

"Rich Thomas, Test Rockets Flown, Battles Fought, Races Won, Virgins Enlightened, Bars Quaffed Dry, & All Round Good Guy!"

[BigRedX]

Whoever you pick make sure that their standard rate business cards are the normal size of 85 x 55 mm. IIRC one of the major budget printers of business cards has/had a different standard size which doesn't fit in the typical business card pocket in a wallet rendering them less useful.

 

These days unless you want something fancy in terms of material or finishing, all the budget suppliers will be much of a muchness since all the cards will be digitally printed on similar digital presses and it's very difficult to get this wrong. I'd pick someone local and arrange a discount for collecting them in person. Otherwise if you don't want the hassle of picking them up yourself have a look at Flexpress who are usually very competitive for printing.

[dave_bass5]

I print mine at work, doesnt cost me anything then 😇

 

Agree with BigRedX, the standards size is 85mm x 55mm as it's pretty much the same size as a credit card, so fits in a wallet better.

We are finding more and more that people are using 88.9 x 50.8 instead. Not on purpose, but that a the default that some programs use and they dont bother to change it. 

 

Also if you are going to have a background printed or anything that goes right to the edge, it's better to set up a 3mm bleed on each side.