NickPick Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 A long time ago, there was a thread about calling cards(and I don't think it was a love em-hate em thread), and somebody mentioned a printers that does calling cards for free (with their own advert on the reverse). I've used the search, but can't find it, so does anybody know where I can find them? Thanks, NickPick Quote Link to comment
+Mad H@ter Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 VistaPrint is probably the company you are looking for. You get the basic card free but if you want any of the extra frills that they offer you whilst making the card you get charged for these. P&P is also charged which is a little on the steep side, but at the end of the day if you stick with the basic offer it is pretty good value IMHO. Quote Link to comment
+niknrich Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 VistaPrint are supposed to be good - www.vistaprint.co.uk/. They have lots of special offers and free samples - you just pay the postage. We've ordered some stickers for putting in log books, we've not yet received them but they were dispatched only a few days after we ordered them. They have lots of different designs for business cards or you can upload your own for a small fee. HTH Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) Vistaprint Even if you pay, they are cheap, I recently got 1500 business cards from them for under £20 and £7 of that was for urgent delivery as I needed them before I set off for a conference! This included uploading a company logo too! Edited January 13, 2007 by Dorsetgal & GeoDog Quote Link to comment
+Mad H@ter Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Just had a look at there shipping charges and its not as bad as I remember: Shipping and Processing Costs: Slow £3.08 21 Days Standard £5.20 14 Days Priority £8.07 7 Days Rush £14.95 3 Days Quote Link to comment
+Birders Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Why not do it yourself, as we do? Many word processing, graphics or drawing packages will produce quite professional results. We use CorelDraw - takes about 5 minutes to produce the design. We buy packs of 250 sheets of card for £5; each card produces 10 "calling cards" in full colour, including graphics/pictures. We simply print off a couple of sheets when we need them.. Quote Link to comment
+lordelph Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 (edited) Check out Moo - they make these great sub-business-card sized "calling cards" which have a very nice feel to them - they actually feel quite collectable. You can buy a box of 100 and have them all different too, each one has an image from your Flickr photostream on it. Here are some designs I did for Geograph. I'm not connected with them in any way, I just like the product! Edited January 14, 2007 by lordelph Quote Link to comment
SNAKEBITER Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 My local shopping centre has a buisness card macine that you can design your own cards on. Maybe yours has. Quote Link to comment
+also_cute_and_fluffy Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Or you could print them on a computer/word processor etc, then laminate them for something a bit more substantial. You can buy business card sized laminator pouches from Staples etc. Quote Link to comment
+Sue and Bernie Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 VISTAPRINT - BEWARE!!! If you do use Vistaprint, watch out for the trick survey/offers thing at the end of your purchase. If you're not careful, it finishes with you unwittingly signing up to a £9.95 monthly service, free for the first month, subsequently billed direct to the card used to make your purchase. Before you realise what has happened, you can be billed several month's fees. Then the free stuff turns out to be very expensive indeed! Afterwards, you will be endlessly bombarded with free offers - which then get endlessly repeated. If you use them wisely, you can get all your choices for just their postage and packing charges. The actual stuff is quite good. Just be careful out there! Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Thanks for the answers guys, it was vistaprint that I was thinking of, but I may well just find some card and print them myself (have to check if I can fit card into the laser printer). Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+Birdman-of-liskatraz Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Thanks for the answers guys, it was vistaprint that I was thinking of, but I may well just find some card and print them myself (have to check if I can fit card into the laser printer). Thanks. Speaking from experience... If you print from a laser onto card I find the toner rubs off very easily - unless maybe theres a special card for this purpose? Inkjet prints tend not to be waterproof... and maybe not ideal in some caches which tend to be on the damp side... Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Nick, email me. You are not 100 miles away from where I live. I will happily bung some sheets through the ink jet for you, if you do all the dull designing stuff yourself. Quote Link to comment
+dino-irl Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Printing to ordinary paper and laminating is much the best option. Cheaper and longer lasting Quote Link to comment
+derrylynne Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 We print ourselves with a lazer printer - we even have a small picture of us on the card. Our cards are printed on ordinary paper then laminated - that way they will not get ruined in damp or wet caches. Quote Link to comment
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