Printing service?!

[chrismavrick]

I need help on finding a place that prints business cards. I am going to use one of my images so I want it to be perfect. Thanks, Chris

[Tom Reichner]

Use your local printer. I don't know why nobody ever seems to think of this. Are they scared to death that cards thru a local print shop might be a few bucks more than some online service? Who cares! You have the chance to discuss your needs in person with the printer/designer - why would you pass this up to save a few dollars? If you want it to be perfect, then by all means go meet with one of the printing shops in your town. They will show you many examples of their work and how different graphics look on various types of card stock. You can never beat the personal touch.

[tfizzle]

moo.com

whcc.com

and then there's this place called "google" where it will give you all these answers

I went through moo and liked them a lot (because of the mini-cards). Also WHCC is where I do all my client stuff.

[tfizzle]

true on the printers thing.

However, I don't trust my local printers . . . I had questions for them when I first started out in photography and they were clueless.

Just depends on what your needs are.

[CaityB]

I've used vistaprint :)

[chrismavrick]

I agree but my local print service is not very personal. I tried to get them to do a business card for me and they acted like they didn't have time for me so I turned to my newspaper graphic artist to do it for me. Even though we do a lot of business with them through my other business. As far as the google thing goes I just don't trust online services very much I guess that's why I turned to a forum. Thanks for all the input!!

[tfizzle]

I use google not only to find places but to look up reviews for those places. There's also good groups on flickr to use as resources to find out what's good.

[RachelC1184]

I use vistaprint. They offer "free" business cards, and are even giving away the "premium" ones right now. The premium means that they don't print their company logo on the back of your card... With vista print you can upload your own image but they charge like $5 for an image upload but then you can use that image for any other products on their site and you don't get charged again.

Moo.com I just was looking at this past weekend. The mini cards are a great idea, might order some in the future. And they offer some cool features like you can have a box of 50 cards that are all printed with 50 different images.. Whereas vistaprint is $5 per image upload and the cards come in boxes of 250.

I use WHCC for prints and their cards appear to be nice as well but I haven't ordered any from them.