The first technical one was quite direct: We down took to the business card our store of the impression of the vicinity, and requested to print upon greater. We brought blowing upon the copy of our standard, that served like "camera the ready illustrations." The copy store took the care to compose type, to correct, of the impression, the etc. He was enough without pain, although it physically implied obtaining to the store of the impression. Following email of the well of the time they a TIF file. We had glided in obtaining 500 cards, but the price for 1,000 was only a little more stop, so we were with the greatest amount. The cards took 5 days labor, outsourced apparently because they were not printed in site, but something to a printer to by greater. The second technique can sound little orthodox, but it worked. We used a rubber stamp by order to create cards. This one was diversion, although it took awhile. Also we ruined some cards printing negligently. Finally, we created some cards in our printer of the red injection, a C84 needle de Epson. The special software of Theres available to put the images 10-up in the page, but we it chose to use marinates PageMaker, from thats with which they were familiar. Imprimimos the cards in the clean business card paper of the edge of Avery # 8871. The three methods have their authors, and no of the methods were clearly the best option for each one. The printed rubber cards were definitively cowardly to watch. If you work in a bank, she does not even think of him. On the other hand, if you right necessity some dozen cards of its business of half time of hornada of the cake, printed cards rubber can be that he is right what you need to transport the done impression "home". The enthusiastic ones of the stamp of the art often have diversion with multiple colors of the red. The more cushions that you have, the more the variety of the red their cards can have. The printed card cost rubber was 12,4 cents each one. Unfortunately, our assistant of 8 years obtained boring, so we aborted the experiment after one hour and of half, and near 150 cards. The printed cards red injection were little harder to evaluate. The image was clear and acute, and we chose to use the capacities of the printers to mix several colors and a mixture in the page. Nevertheless, designing is not absolutely as trivial as it sounds. You can finish easily upon designing thats of a card too much occupied. Also, ours first they design had type that was also near the edge. If youre not a professional designer, counts in printing some experiments to watch to him before it struck the button of impression for 200 cards. It does not matter how he is careful you you are, nevertheless, you still you finish for above with the cards that watch as they were printed in a printer of the red injection. "the clean" edges still perceivable were perforated, and the red worked little when it obtained humid. An informal survey of the owners of the small company in the New England demonstrated that the printed cards red injection still transport "a less serious" impression. Of course, this could be fine for many businesses, but it deserves a certain consideration. All together ones, we happened near 3 hours that they designed and that imprimían 200 cards. We saved the design, so the next time that could be faster. We hoped that the printed cards red injection were much more cheap that professionally printed. That was before we marked the cost of cartridges and paper of the red. The paper was $16,88 in line, more $7,95 than they sent, for 200 cards. That is solved to 12,4 cents by card. If you include a factor useless 10%, the cost of final paper is 13,66 cents by card. Then we calculated the cost of the red. Totals, we made an average of 42 cents by the page, or of 4,2 cents by card (each page had site for 10 cards.) Once again a useless factor of 10% meant a final cost of the red of 4,62 cents by card. The total cost for the red and the paper was 18,28 cents by card. An excellent price if you need only some dozen, but for greater amounts, we could do better. The professionally printed cards were raised impression simple of 2 colors (red blacks and navy blue) in a grayish action of the card. The raised impression and the deficiency of perforations gained the thumbs for above of the owners of the small company of the New England. An aged woman average observed that "they seem a true business imprimieron them." The price of professionally printed business cards absolutely varied a small piece when we called around, so it can pay to him to make few purchases. Remember that probable use of youll the same printer again in the future, if only for the convenience. Most of the stores of the impression they keep its data on the file fast to rearrange. The store of the impression which we chose loaded $43,00 to us for 1,000 cards, that are solved to 4,3 cents by card, or around a discount of 76% of the red injection imprimió cards. We made choose to only request 500 cards, the price would have been $38,00, or 7,6 cents by card. Still Thats savings of 58.4%. More importantly, we felt that we had a good card that watched. Whereas it did not excite, she was enough professional to distribute anywhere. Some other points to consider: The price which we paid in the store of the impression was for a quite simple work. Didnt we chose, for example, to have solid cover of the red extending of all the way to the edge (a "landslide".) Nor we made a color of order mix for above for us. These loads can add for above, so if his isnt of the design fixed just to stone still, you can be that she wishes to verify with the store of the impression on his policies. Also, we chose to make our injection of red that imprimía in the paper specially done of the red injection. You can save the money choosing a cheaper paper, but havent we had good results with nobody weve found until now. Our verdict: Go with thats of the method to the right for you! For the business done in house of the cake, it obtains a rubber stamp. If you need only some business cards, and arent excessively referred aspects, she goes with the method of the red injection. Nevertheless, it stops most of people in business, the business card professionally printed desire in convenience, cost, and professional image.