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Re: Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards?

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Post by dangrover »

pchristensen wrote: post #28
dangrover wrote: post #13

If you know where to look, you can easily find some absurd discounts on VistaPrint. I highly recommend them.

Where do you look?

RetailMeNot.com works well, but they also send you coupons in email and physically when you order stuff. I've gotten as much as 90% off before. It's one of those sites, like GoDaddy, that you never want to order from without checking for an applicable coupon somewhere.

Re: Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards?

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Post by mattmaroon »

simianstyle wrote: post #22
mattmaroon wrote: post #6

Vistaprint is the total nuts. They used to give you some free cheapo ones too.

My roommate works at VistaPrint, I wouldn't recommend them to ANYBODY. They employ shady tactics such as trimming a few millimeters off of each side of the card so they could fit an extra two or three in their printing presses (this also makes your card smaller than the general business card size). Their quality is actually really shoddy as well, and the free cards all say "print at VistaPrint" on the back of them. N…

I've used them 3 times in 3 different years, all business cards came out great, especially the foil ones. Much higher quality than ones I've had done at Kinkos and Staples. If they're not standard size, I definitely can't tell when comparing them to others.

Free cards do say that on the back, but they're free. What would you expect? They aren't meant for serious business use, for that you should pay like you would anywhere else (but less).

I haven't had any trouble with spam from them ever. And even if I did, it would be 2 clicks to just block their emails in the future.

Perhaps your roommate doesn't like his job and is not the best person to ask?

Re: Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards?

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Post by mixmax »

mkull wrote: post #30
mixmax wrote: post #29

Not to ponder this particular post, but seriously: who do you use to print business cards? This is a $50 investment and a google search will tell you who can do it. I think that a lot of these ask YC have gone a bit too far and don't add much value.

I dont think this is a bad post at all, and was glad to see it here. We have been having this very discussion internally this week Our last quote for a business card run was $1100. Far cry from '$50 and a google search'. Peoples responses here about who to with (and who NOT to go with) have been very helpful.

Valid points - maybe it's just me then.

Out of curiosity, what did you get for $1100? I normally order a batch of 300 cards in full color for around $50.

Re: Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards?

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Post by dangoldin »

mixmax wrote: post #29

Not to ponder this particular post, but seriously: who do you use to print business cards? This is a $50 investment and a google search will tell you who can do it. I think that a lot of these ask YC have gone a bit too far and don't add much value.

Yea. I know this isn't a typical post but I felt that it might be able to help some others out.

Doing a google search for that gives you too many garbage results so I'd prefer to hear the opinions of people I respect.

Given the number of responses I don't think it was too terrible of a post.

Re: Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards?

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Post by tptacek »

dhimes wrote: post #24
tptacek wrote: post #11

http://www.psprint.com Not thrilled, but easy enough to do. The bar for bcards is low by the way: you want them not to look laser printed, but that's about it.

I think it might depend on what you are using them for and/or your business. If you sell face-to-face, good cards might be important for your marketing efforts. It seems it would matter less if it's contact info for people who are trying to sell to you . If you are printing a few to get the attention of VC? They will probably say, "This is how the company's going to spend my money if I give it to them. Is it sensible…

I do a lot of face to face selling, and get a lot of cards. Your card is going to get lost in the noise; there are people out there with metal cards, die cut cards, probably glow in the dark neon cards. I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep over yours, as long as it's printed on heavy stock.

Here's mine; the back of the card has actually gotten us business. =)

http://www.matasano.com/bcfront.png http://www.matasano.com/bcback.png

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