Printing Greetings Cards
One of my recent posts was about poor supplier customer service, so I thought I ought to redress the balance with some news about a supplier very much at the other end of the spectrum. If you have any interest in converting some of your own images into greetings cards and thought that it either cost too much per card to get them commercially printed or you had to order hundreds of the same image then read on…
I have been printing my own cards for several years now, and the quality is great using my Epson R2400 printer combined with Crane Museo fine art card blanks. However, this is not a cheap approach costing around 60p per card by the time you’ve factored in the ink, envelopes, sleeves etc not to mention the time (it is not a quick process!). As the number of retail outlets that stock my work has increased I have been looking for a more economical and less time consuming way of getting the cards printed. Sure there are lots of printers who will print greetings cards cheaply as long as you want 1000 of each design (not great when you have well over 100 designs!). There are also low-print-run digital services, but they cost more and I have never been impressed with the quality. That was until someone recommended FilePrint.org to me (and he deserves some credit so please check out Dan Santillo’s website).
I initially ran a test print (just a couple of cards) and the quality is excellent, the delivery was lightening quick and the customer service has been superb. As I live in the middle of no-where and don’t have Broadband they were even happy to upload my files fro me from a CD for my larger order. Every time I have a question it is answered promptly and I still can’t get over the fact that it costs only 17p to get an A6 card printed (which comes ready folded further minimising my own time involvement).
At that price why not just give it a go and see what you think….I’ll even send you a Photoshop template for printing A6 cards if you want – just email me.
Tessa Bishop
Just spent a few minutes checking out the FilePrint website – it looks really interesting, and it’s good to hear that the quality is up to scratch. I might just order a few of my own images as cards to see what they look like. Cheers for this Matt, you’re a useful bloke to know!
FilePrint
Matt thank you for your kind words.
Tessa Bishop if there’s anything I can help you with please feel free to contact me.
Olga at FilePrint