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30
Dec
2011

Printing Your Own Business Cards With Your Inkjet or Laser Printer

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Article by Lyn Askin

Print Your Own Business Cards With Your Color Laser Printer

Often, the first piece of marketing material that your client sees is your business card. A business card is a vital tool that helps you maintain and build your business reputation.

Getting your business card into your potential customers hands is crucial, as it contains your name and contact information. Make a great impression when you hand your business cards to your customers by designing and printing them on your color laser or inkjet printer. Modern printers can produce printing press like quality while saving you money. Money that you can put into your other marketing methods. A color laser or inkjet printer and some inkjet or toner cartridges are all you need to get started.

Desktop publishing programs, like Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign make it easy to produce amazing business cards. Your color laser printer or inkjet printer can produce professional looking cards, however you have the option of taking them to a commercial printer as well. The in home printing option is typically less expensive and gives you the flexibility of quickly making changes or printing only as many as you currently need.

The following elements are vital in any business card you create:

1. Include Your Company Logo and Name

2. Your Title, and Your Name

3. Your Company Address, Fax and Phone Numbers

4. Include Your Email Address

5. Don’t forget your URL, or web site address

Software like Publisher and Business Card Factory have wizards and templates that make designing your own business cards a breeze. Advanced users may want to try their hand at designing the card from scratch. I recommend that a first time user take advantage of the templates provided by your business card software. Want the best results possible from your printer? Buy good blank business card stock. Companies like Avery sell business card stock that is designed exclusively for this purpose. Visit your local office supply store and browse their business cards. You may even find some that already contain beautiful designs, just waiting for your information to be printed.

Designing 2 Sided Business Cards

If you need to include additional information on your business cards, consider printing them two-sided. On the back of your cards, you can add:

1. A map of your business

2. Driving directions to your business

3. Include a Coupon or Discount Savings

4. A Reward or Discount for Referrals

5. Your Company Slogan or Motto

6. A list of your products or offerings

7. Translate the front of your card in a different language on the back.

You can save yourself a lot of time and effort when printing your cards by printing test copies on plain paper. Make sure you’ve worked out all the “kinks” in draft mode, before using up your color laser or color inkjet cartridges.

Printing your Own cards with your inkjet or laser printer and printer ink cartridges has saved you quite a bit of money. Enjoy It. However, once your batch of new cards is ready, get back to work and get them distributed. Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson has some fantastic ideas on how you can get your business cards into the right hands.

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Swift Card Cutter for producing boarderless business cards

This demo video presents how to produce boarderless business cards by the Swift Card Cutter with 3 mm (0.12″) gutter cuts. All cards are pre-configured in 10-up (2×5) full bleed layout on size A4 paper. Finished card size in this video is 91 x 55 mm, the standard business card size in Japan. The operation, however, also applies to other popular business card sizes around the world such as 85 x 54 mm, 90 x 54 mm, 90 x 50 mm, 3.5″ x 2″ and etc.
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30
Dec
2011

Choosing the correct material for your business card.

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Article by Paul Hruza

With so many types of business card stock to choose from it is very difficult to know what is right for you.

Plain, coloured, textured, foiled, plastic etc… the choices can be quite bewildering.

Let’s outline a few of the more common types:

Plain & Coated

Plain white/coloured card is exactly what it says on the tin. Even so, there are very many different qualities and weights. A cheap card will feel slightly rough to the touch and is not suitable for business cards. We tend to use this type of board (pulp board), when requested, to print stock take tickets, point-of-sale items etc. or any item that needs to be printed as cost-effectively as possible, and generally used in-house for various projects.

A calendered card is the next step up and has gone through compression techniques to end up with a smooth surface. This type of card is normally around the 200gsm (the weight of one square metre in grammes) mark. Many of the companies offering ‘free business cards’ or ‘budget cards’ will use this stock. To confuse the situation even more, some of these companies do not publish their card weights in gsm, but lb’s (pounds) per square whatever!
Be careful!

Coated card has been treated at the manufacturing stage and has a shiny surface which can be gloss or satin, which is less reflective. More often than not this will be coated on one side only. Again, this type of board has its uses, as it is fairly inexpensive. This is often used by people who need to bulk-buy their cards, e.g. taxi drivers, hairdressers, tradesmen etc. Quality is often sadly lacking though.

Our preference is for quality art board, which is fully coated both sides and usually thicker than the cheaper alternatives.


Textured

Textured card used to be very fashionable some years back. One of the most common (Conqueror laid) is still used widely today. Because of the texturing (narrow ridges indented in the card) the card actually feels thicker than it actually is, usually 300gsm. It was/is often used for a more traditional look, perfect for people in the legal profession, architects etc. One downside (my personal view only) is that company logos and text do not look as pin sharp as they would on a ‘smooth’ board.

Included in the textured section you would also find some unusual card such as the parchment types etc. Great for invitations etc.


Laminated

Laminated card is basically a plain uncoated card that has been printed and then ‘sealed’ both sides in a very, very thin plastic laminate. This serves a couple of purposes: it protects the card (very important if there is a lot of ink coverage as it also prevents smudging of the ink) and also gives a much more professional appearance. Even when using air-drying inks, if there is a lot of ink coverage (as in using a solid colour for the reverse of the card for instance), then it can actually take a few days for the ink to completely dry. If you’ve just recently had some cards produced try rubbing the ink with your thumb. You may be surprised at how easy it is to smudge. This is quite normal. Some colours, blue for instance, can take longer to dry than others! Sealing, or laminating the card will overcome this problem.

There are 2 types of laminated card, glossy and matt.

Which to use? Glossy ones are normally used as hi-vis advertising e.g. taxi companies, tradesmen etc. whereas the matt laminated are more suitable for corporate use and can be quite elegant. We use a 350gsm board for our laminated cards. These are not to be confused with some of the thick ‘plasticy’ type cards often seen on the market, which have not been laminated, but ‘encapsulated’ This is done by printing (usually using a cheaper digital process) on very thin card and then inserted into a pouch of plastic. Ideal for membership cards etc. but not much else in my view.

A laminated card has that extra quality, look and feel but does cost more due to the processes involved.


Specialist

Specialist cards can cover such things as hot-foil printed cards, thick plastic cards such as the credit card types and business cards even produced on mini CD’s that fit a standard CD drive.

Summing up

I would suggest you tailor the choice of business card to your type/style of business. If you just need a good quality businesslike card, favoured by many of our corporate clients, then choose a 335gsm or 400gsm Ivory board.

If your card needs to look impressive and suggest to your contacts that you take your company image very seriously, then a matt laminated card is the perfect solution.

If your company is promoting a particular product, a limousine service, a landscape gardener or anything where a full colour photograph would be useful then a good quality art board would definately suit your needs.

The author is a partner in a commercial print company and enjoys writing ‘help’ articles to enable people to make informed decisions when purchasing print-related products.

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08
Dec
2011

Business Card Printing: The Choice of Paper Stock

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A great business card can easily overcome a poor offer or an expensive product, and bring in a considerable amount of orders.  In fact, a well designed card can work effectively just by the design itself.  The only thing that a great business card overcomes is incorrect target market. No matter how interesting and effective your card is, if you give it to the wrong prospect its no good at all. It’s like letting a size 14 fit into a size 10 dress. They would never fit.

Nowadays, there are a lot of innovations you can do to your business card to make it incredibly great and effective. Among them is the choice of paper stock.

Different types of paper stocks are now available which you can use in your business cards. Each one of these types has its own characteristics and capabilities in improving your card’s look and functionality. The most typical type of paper stock is the coated and the non- coated stocks.

• The coated paper stocks – in today’s modern age in printing, coated paper stocks are commonly used by business card users because of the enhance appearance they offer. Coated paper stocks usually have a gloss, matt finish on both sides referred to as the C1s or the coated one side and the C2s or the coated two sides. Every time you will print with the use of coated paper stocks, the ink tends to stay on top of the coating finish as opposed to soaking into the paper.

This gives the ink more gloss and  much darker blacks. The result it an evenly coated and vibrant business card.

• The un-coated paper stocks– unlike the coated paper stocks, the un-coated paper stocks are usually under utilized since it is considered as a very ordinary paper stock. This type of stock has a matte type finish and available in different textures, colors, and usually have higher recycled materials and contents.

Your choice of paper stock usually depends on your need. But before you choose, you need to make an evaluation of the work you need to be done. Do you like to print in color? If your business card templates are to be printed in full color, you need a high quality and coated paper stock. Likewise, if you want to give your card a long lasting look, UV coating is needed. Therefore, you need to use a coated paper stock. But if you want to print your cards in a single or spot design, use non coated paper stocks. Remember though that the un-coated paper will absorb much of the ink that will surely leave a flat or dull look on your business cards.

In conclusion

Making the right paper selection can make or break your business card. Always ask your printer which paper stock is best to use in the kind of business card you want to produce. There are different ways you can use these coated and non coated paper stocks. Just make sure that you choose the right one that will perfectly suit with your business card theme and layout. Moreover, you have to make sure that aside the paper stock you choose will perfectly suit with your budget.

Remember that the choice of paper stock will great affect the success of your business card, so choose wisely.

This writing provides information and tips to the readers about how to make appealing business cards, try to check out this page for more eye catching and free business card templates.

 

Martha Killian has been writing articles online for about 2 years now in a printing company. For years, she makes it a point to be of assistance to public on how to succeed in marketing their businesses through their print materials, such as business cards, posters, brochures, flyers and other popular products use in advertising. In order to effectively gain profit for your business , promotion is the number 1 way to showcase your products and services. For more information about the most excellent online printing company, visit Printplace.com.

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05
Dec
2011

Printing Business Cards

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Article by Carla San Gaspar

Among the vital tools that are widely used at present are the business cards. They encompass a powerful marketing feature that will help you for your advertising and promotion. Now dealing with the printing processes and methodological procedures there are some factors that are being considered.

Before rendering your printing projects for your business cards there are two printing options that you can choose to apply.

*Digital printing – the prints are made directly from a computer file without using the plates. This method is very ideal for businesses that are in need of small number of prints and short turn around time.

*Offset printing – the very common printing method used. This effectively works on a simple principle where ink and water don’t mix. The offset term simply works where the images are put on plates, dampened first by water then the ink. The process involved in this method develops a quality print of the final product.

Generally no matter what printing process you want to have all of them will significantly produce the kind of print you want for your material.

Aside from the printing processes involved, the following specification will also give you an idea for printing business cards.

The common standard size of business cards is 2 x 3.5 often printers may also provide a customized size varying on your intended form of marketing. The stock used is usually a 14 pt. gloss cover for offset printing and 12pt. gloss cover for digital printing. In relations with the coatings you can also go for UV or matte coating.

Thus the following are among the note that you can think before printing business cards.

Stock – choosing for your business card stock it must be durable enough.

*Commonly the paper stock used are bright white with high quality 14pty gloss cover stock
*The superiority and smooth quality of the stock makes it suitable for full color business cards even without additional coating.
*The stock has an impressive thickness that will hold up well over time.

Coating – these aids to protect the prints of the card from marks of finger prints.

1.UV coating – this coating is used for a smoother, shinier end finish
2.Matte coating – for a more elegant look.

Being knowledgeable and aware about this you are yet to come up with a business card that will not only show how good your business is but as well as a top notch quality material that will stand out in lieu of your existence.

More info about business cards printing and digital business cards printing can be found at U Printing: Business Cards

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28
Oct
2011

Q&A: Where can I find cheap card stock?

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Question by Lillith: Where can I find cheap card stock?
I’m looking to start my own business making invitations, business cards, and custom greeting cards in the coming months. I’ve been pricing card stock locally and online. I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions of places to cheaply buy bulk card stock and supplies.
Apparently I didn’t clarify. I don’t want to have business cards made, I want to make my own as part of my business. So I would like to know of a place where I can purchase card stock at a decent price in bulk.

Best answer:

Answer by Fred Thomas III
Try Staples, Office Depot, etc.
All you need is a decent inkjet or color laser printer. Packages are available with pre-formatted solutions (business cards, postcards, etc.) on a variety of card stock or acceptable paper.

If you want something more professional, try Vistaprint.com as they are very low cost and offer lots of freebies.

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25
Oct
2011

Duplo Docu-Cutter 545 Cutter Slitter Creaser

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Duplo DC545 Docu-Cutter Slitter Creaser ** Auto set system with 25 preset programs and 30 custom programs ** Up to 13.5″ x 19.3″ sheet ** Cover stock to 10PT Chrome Coat ** Easily custs business cards, replay cards ** Creaser system Ideal for digital toner printed covers Any Questions? 1-800-634-2176 On the Web: www.Lcegraphics.com

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24
Oct
2011

Office Zone Announces Addition of New Instant Card Business Card Cutter

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Office Zone Announces Addition of New Instant Card Business Card Cutter










Kaysville, Utah (PRWEB) September 19, 2007

This month Office Zone, an online dealer of office equipment, announced the addition of the Instant Card business card cutter to is online selection. This new business card cutter is designed to help businesses of all types create their own business cards in-house and save operation costs in the process. This addition increases Office Zone’s business card cutter selection to seven models.

Most businesses use business cards for daily operations. It is a way to promote a company, distribute contact information and is an absolute necessity for sales associates and trade shows. Business cards are typically outsourced and produced in high volumes. This option isn’t always practical for home and small businesses. This is and example where the Instant Card business card cutter may be an alternate option.

Information on business cards can also become outdated due to company name changes, new employees, phone number changes and other reasons. Re-printing business cards can be inconvenient, take time and waste money. Creating business cards on the fly is another example of where the Instant Card business card cutter can be used.

The Instant Card business card cutter takes a piece of paper, printed in any kind of laser or inkjet printer, and cuts it down into individual cards. It accepts a variety of paper including card stock, glossy and standard copy paper. After a few passes through the machine, standard-size business cards are ready to be passed out or be placed in a wallet. It uses a motor to run the slitter wheels and can create dozens of cards in minutes. The Instant Card business card cutter can be seen here: http://www.officezone.com/business-card-slitter.htm?NR.

Office Zone continues to increase its selection on a daily basis and offers options and alternatives to businesses trying to simplify business operations. To see the entire selection of business card cutters, please go here: http://www.officezone.com/cardcut1.htm?NR.

For further information, please contact David Stuart, Marketing Supervisor of Office Zone, 1-800-543-5454

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08
Oct
2011

Simple Steps to Creating a Good Business Card

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In essence, the business card is an extension of you and your business. Giving it out to customers is like giving a piece of yourself to them. This only means that you need to create one exceptional card in order to catch attention in the market.

Keep in mind that it is not always possible to get to know someone, particularly a potential customer, in just a short period of time no matter how much you talk. Most of the time, people will not remember everything you told them. So, if you want the people you meet to remember you, do it with use of business cards. This simple one piece material usually contains your name, business name, contact numbers, address, logo, and a description of what you do.

Ideally, your business card should help people know and remember you. It should tell them who you are, what you do, and the nature of your business. Your card should focus on a single feature of your business. You may be a real estate agent or a laundry shop, no matter what business you have your card should focus on just one crucial aspect of your business.

Here are simple steps to creating a good business card:

First of all, determine what you want your business card to tell your target customers. Do you want your cards to encourage them to buy your products? Do you want them to follow your ideas? Whatever you decide, listing down everything about your business will help you showcase your business effectively.
Determine if you want a formal looking card or a light-hearted or informal one. This will help you design your cards more effectively.
Make sure to list down all components of your business card. Organize all information and omit those that are now so important. Look for shorter and simple words to maximize the space you have in your business card.
Look at the business cards of other businesses, especially the successful ones. Study what made their cards truly captivating. List down your observation and use those that you think will give your card an exceptional look.
Draft your design. Include everything you want your card to have including the images, clip art, logo, and any other detail.
Review your design. Before you get your business cards printed, proofread it. See if there are changes that need to be made. Have a friend look at your design to ensure you did not omit any error or mistake.
Print your final design on a good quality business card stock. Use good paper ink to ensure you create an exceptional print out.
Hand out your business card printing to the right people at the right time and place.

It may not be easy to produce a good quality business card at first, but with the help of the steps mentioned above you can easily create a card that will best highlight your business. Don’t give up at first try in designing your card. Continue creating drafts until you find the one that best compels your target customers. Keep in mind that you cards should be clear and easily understandable as you only have a small space in your business card with which to promote your business. So, be sure to take advantage of it.

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21
Sep
2011

Rick Tooley Introduces Chris Stock from CPR Financial – Video Business Card

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Video Business Card: Rick Tooley From Prestige Realty Introduces Chris Stock from CPR Financial.
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Looking to print your cards on a transparent plastic card stock? If so you will love our premium frosted satin cards. This Semi transparent medium allows for some contrast for the card design so make your design pop, while retaining a transparent nature. Visit www.plasticprinters.com for more information.

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14
Sep
2011

Order Early For Discounts On Christmas Cards

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Order Early For Discounts On Christmas Cards












(PRWEB) September 09, 2011

Chester-based Christmas card supplier, Festive Collection, has launched a special discount for orders placed via their website (http://www.festivecollection.co.uk). The discount entitles customers to 15% off any order made before the 7th October. The Festive Collection provides families and businesses with a wide range of Christmas cards, with some that are specific to certain industries such as the Automotive industry. The discount applies to any card ordered, including cards that have been personalised. Festive Collection wants to encourage customers to order cards early as stock of cards is limited and ordering early can avoid disappointment.

Cards range from photographic to humorous or traditional. The cards come with the option of incorporating the company name within the design. The discount still applies to cards that have been personalised in this way. “We have been designing and supplying Christmas cards since 1993 and constantly update our range so that there are plenty of fantastic options for our customers,” says Steve Dedo, marketing director of Festive Collection. “Ordering before the 7th October allows you to save 15% on your order and ensures you have plenty of time to make sure any personalisation details and messages are just right. Cards are normally delivered within fifteen working days so ordering now will allow you plenty of time to send them out before Christmas.”

Festive collection provides customers with up to five free samples which are dispatched within twenty four hours. Customers wishing to take advantage of the 15% discount therefore still have plenty of time to order samples and then proceed with placing an order at a later date. Along with the early order discount programme, Festive Collection is also offering a free gift for any order of 100 cards or more.

“The stock is limited and popular designs can sell out,” states Steve Dedo. “Taking advantage of the early order discount programme not only allows you to save 15% but it allows helps to ensure you are able to order the exact Christmas card design you want.”

The online discount is available now. For more details visit the website or call the free phone customer service line.

http://www.festivecollection.co.uk

Tel: 0800 616350

Fax: 0800 414041

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