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Business cards with MS Publisher

  • 27-07-2006 11:30pm
    #1
    esperanza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone tried making business cards with Microsoft Publisher? What is the best paper to print on, or is it best to get them printed at a printers?


Comments

  • #2
    damnyanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    If you are making business cards don't print them on paper. You need a cardboard type thingy me bobby to print it onto :)

    They should be relativly cheap to print out. Someplaces on the net do them for almost free as long as you put up with them having a small ad on the card.


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    You can get specially pre-micro-perforated sheets that you can print 10 cards per A4 sheet from various suppliers and you can usually download templates from their websites for most WP and DTP packages. I've got some from a firm called DecaDry. They're OK for casual use, but don't match up to the real thing. The edges, although micro-perforated still feel a little 'fuzzy'.

    Someone I know recently had some done via www.vistaprint.ie (I think they're actually in the UK though!). You just upload the master for one card in a variety of formats, and they print them off and send them to you in the post. She got a special offer of something in the €30'ish range for 250 cards IIRC.


  • #4
    bigred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭bigred


    I've used www.clickbusinesscards.com - worked out at about €40 incl p+p for 250 full colour cards. I found their templates much better than vistaprints. Actually print and ship from Australia - got them in less than a week via fedex - even give you a tracking number.
    Cant fault them :)


  • #5
    esperanza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭esperanza


    That sounds ok, but I don't need 250 cards and I don't have a week to wait either.

    I think I would prefer to be creative with MSPublisher and then put my template on disk and bring to local printer to get copies.


  • #6
    andrea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭andrea


    Alun wrote:
    You can get specially pre-micro-perforated sheets that you can print 10 cards per A4 sheet from various suppliers and you can usually download templates from their websites for most WP and DTP packages. I've got some from a firm called DecaDry. They're OK for casual use, but don't match up to the real thing. The edges, although micro-perforated still feel a little 'fuzzy'.

    Someone I know recently had some done via www.vistaprint.ie (I think they're actually in the UK though!). You just upload the master for one card in a variety of formats, and they print them off and send them to you in the post. She got a special offer of something in the €30'ish range for 250 cards IIRC.

    I've used vistaprint, they do pretty good quality and I got 250 for about €15 with a calendar on the back. Could be worth using the DecaDry type idea (which I used first and wasn't too impressed by) to keep you going until they arrive? If you are going this route, make sure you go to the website of the manufacturer of the paper to download the template for it to ensure that they print properly onto each card. Otherwise it can be very wasteful.


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