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davidgriffith

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« on: February 18, 2015, 11:41:27 am »

Can anyone recommend a good printer for business cards? I've good a photo on the front that requires some careful printing that I'm going to be a finicky about.

Suggestions?

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Phil Indeblanc

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Re: business cards
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2015, 12:15:50 pm »

where are you located?

Most online printers will make it harder to be "finicky about" it.

I do a lot of printing. Maybe if you explain and show what you need, I can give you an idea of what you can expect.
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Re: business cards
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2015, 01:02:12 pm »

I'm in Toronto. I've had my image printed offset years ago and it looked quite good. I've just tried to print digitally and the dark areas of the image have turned quite muddy.
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Re: business cards
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2015, 01:11:44 pm »

they are almost all "offset", but they are not optimized and printed for each image.  Your file maybe the issue ?
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Re: business cards
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2015, 01:14:22 pm »

the file was a drum scanned 6x7 original transperancy. hard to say where the breakdown occured
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Re: business cards
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2015, 01:34:38 pm »

You can't swing a cat without hitting a business card printing outfit online who'll do it dirt cheap and good, so why not pick out 5 of these printers and purchase a minimum order using the same image and pick the best. Or see if they'll supply a print proof first.

Some of these places charge as little as $10 for 500 BC's.

In my situation I just do on demand printing on a $50 Epson NX330 "All In One" bought at Walmart on 11.8 mil thick Epson Ultra Premium Glossy. Near perfect print match. I cut them up with a utility razor and steel ruler. The paper isn't as thick as commercial BC stock but ten fit nicely in my wallet without bulking it up and I can gang a variety of images of my choosing on an 8/12x11 sheet with my contact info of my own design made in Photoshop.

I found my local OfficeMax's print & copy center farms out BC's to a pretty good digital printer from what I could see from their print samples.
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