UK Greeting Card Manufacturers???

[timmaher]

Hi,

Does anyone know of any good quality greeting card manufacturers in the UK. What I'm after are cards which I can get with my landscapes on the front with no message inside (the type you sometimes find in good art galleries).

Thanks!!!

[mrmacca]

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[Box Brownie]

Originally Posted by timmaher

Hi,

Does anyone know of any good quality greeting card manufacturers in the UK. What I'm after are cards which I can get with my landscapes on the front with no message inside (the type you sometimes find in good art galleries).

Thanks!!!

I was looking into just this subject about 18 months ago and if i can find my notes on it I will post but the one thing that I learned very quickly was that its a numbers game.

Most such printers are geared up to print minimum 2500 per image on 4 colour presses. If you want short runs these will come at higher cost per unit and are done in one of two ways.

1) Digital press such as a variant of the HP Indigo ~ I saw some varied examples of this method i.e. the print quality/colour rendition left something to be desired.

2) Photolab type printers ~ these produce IMO very good quality images AFAIK the types of printers vary but maybe typically Fuji Frontiers, Prolinca, Durst Theta. Again higher unit cost but IMO the highest photographic quality for short runs.

FWIW I had a few done (very low numbers, Xmas Cards and some blank greetings cards) by Photobox and the quality was very nice ~ the only downside was that they insist on printing their info on the back though you can put your own copyright and contact info there as well. I see using Photobox as a first step to test any selling and then if that gets going (I wish one day) then to use a supplier for say 500 to 100 runs per image but for me that is a long way off.

HTH

[Mike-DT6]

I'm looking into greetings cards at the moment and the thing that is bothering me is the size of the available envelope relative to the card size.

An A5 card (A4 folded) is 148mm x 210mm, but the corresponding envelope (a C5) is 162mm x 229mm, which is considerably larger than the card and looks too big to me. I don't remember greetings cards from the shops having such oversized envelopes.

The same applies proportionally to the other card-to-envelope matches.

Mike