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[kitchen_kink]

Hey, friends,

I needs me some spiffy bidness cards. With pikchurs 'n' shit. (This was all the fault of me typing "needs" instead of "need" in that sentence.)

Where have you (where you is local Bostonish folk) gotten business cards printed that you were happy with?

Where have you (where you is non-local folk or local folk who have done this online) gotten business cards online that were happy-making?

Is it better to do this in person, or is online just as good?

Thankye!

Comments

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

In person is nice, because then you have somewhere to go and yell when you get a ream of letterhead which shows your first name as "Fraces". My mom used that for scrap paper for years.

[cutieperson]

i don't have personal experience purchasing my own cards, but i know others have had good luck with Vistaprint online. and i've liked every single one i've been handed that was done by them.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Vistaprint has generally worked pretty well for me, and they were understanding and helpful when they accidentally shipped me the business cards meant for a Nigerian businessman...

[beowabbit]

Did they say he was "Director, Unclaimed Assets Office, Central Bank of Abuja"? :-)

[dustriderma.livejournal.com]

A printer and a trip to Staples should get you as many as 400 cards for 30$... but since its a kit you can print as you go and update info as your info changes overtime withouth too much waste.

[mmayhem.livejournal.com]

www.jaxprints.com
I've used them several times.
They are online great easy to use site and super prices.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

I've also been happy with Vistaprint. They seem to screw something up about one time out of four, but have always quickly fixed it at no cost.

[unknownrockstar.livejournal.com]

I make my own and print them on cardstock at kinkos (that name seems apt for your card somehow) (heh!), and I hand cut them with the slicer they have there, although I recently made my own paper cutter. yep, mr do-it-yerself strikes again. My only problem with that is I wanted an image on the back of the card and I had a hard time getting perfect alignment from the copiers, so I asked the gentleman behind the desk if he could do that for me. he presented me with a series of miserably misaligned cards the quality of which varied wildly in darkness and contrast from one side of the sheet to the next, and acted exasperated at me over the matter instead of apologetic.

This was an older guy too in coolidge corner. His manager refunded my money. I asked him if they could send them out to someone and he said the guys he uses would probably screw it up and offered no more help than that except to give me some free cardstock and suggest I use my printer on my PC. Rather pessimistic, don't know how they stay in buisiness frankly, turning away work.

I'm long overdue to print some more out. It's cheaper to use a pro considering what I charge others for my time, but I like hand making them anyway. I'm not smugly thinking "I'm saving money doing it all myself!", but if it's fun, (actually I did used to think that, come to think of it...), er, what was I saying? Oh yeah, fun!