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Trade only business card supplier "advice"?
Hi All,
I am aways being asked by customers if I do business cards. As I don’t want to loose them as customers I say "yes". I use my local printer to print the cards and just put a mark-up on them for my time doing artwork, but this makes my prices higher than others supplying printing and artwork like this.
Does anyone know of a trade printer for business cards and letterheads?
So I can compete with my competitors that do business cards also.From Mark
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How much work do you put your local printers way?
Ask him to set you up some trade prices! -
Or may think about purchase – color printer/roll cutter combination. Of course this is not offset/screenprinting but you landed cost will be chaper on short runs, you will work independent from subcontractors and work could be done faster.
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Sorry to all you guys who do do business cards but 500 business cards…printed to your own design for free plus a few ££s p+p at vista print.
I no I’ve had a fair few done and charged the customer for them… 😳 😳 😳
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Vista Print..cough….no comment.
http://www.rcs.plc.uk
http://www.quinnstheprinters.com
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quote Tim Painter:Vista Print..cough….no comment.
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Just think they knock out some cr*p stuff that’s all.
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Funny that…they said the same about you…
(grab)
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265gsm Vista Quality 🙄
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There is options for better quality ones for a few pound more.
Do I sound like I work for them?
Its quite scary when I read it back…
Do you do cards yourself Tim?
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Matty, I think Tim probably uses someone like RCS. To be honest the stuff I have had from vista print has not been great either which is why I don’t use them and prefer some of the other companies listed.
Each to their own at the end of the day, I certainly couldn’t complain about the price I paid from vista print. -
quote James Culpin:How much work do you put your local printers way?
Ask him to set you up some trade prices!as james says… if you are talking any real volume of work, the local guy will give you a trade price if asked for sure.
i can see there is money to be made in this line of work but only if your the local printing.com, KallKwik etc but…. maybe just me, i just dont like getting involved in potential headaches for very little return.
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Yea, well. Vista Print. Not much of a fan of them myself. I want business cards not business paper. Not the sort of impression I would like to give my printing abilities.
Just only yesterday I have seen their quality up close. Two printed banner that a customer wasn’t pleased with. Five spelling mistakes just on one banner. So he called me in to take a look. Just awful, vary dark designs not eye catching at all. The most important part of it, the telephone number was printed in a dark gray block, then wait for it, black skinny letters. Maybe they dint want anyone to now there number.
Not being nasty, but our trade is being flooded by the so called Cow Boy how don’t care about the customer and what they want. Don’t you all agree.
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Tim,
I forgot to say thanks for the links and I am looking into them.
Mark
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Yes Mark I do Business Cards, Leaflets, Business Stationary, Brochures etc etc.
Been outsourcing print since 96 before I added signage to the business.Do good quality print & don’t under sell it.
There is money to be made without the overhead.The UK litho print market is currently in dire straits & paper merchants with 18 Mil of debt from printers going pop in the last year.
Lots of deals out there from printers trying to fill capacity.
You have to put the right job to the right printer.
On larger runs I work with another commercial printer as their rates are better when qty increases.The printer in this day and age doesn’t have to be on your doorstep.
In the main the local guy can’t & wouldn’t want to compete with the big players who turn over volume and have to fill sheet capacity. -
I do my stuff with Caralan.
You get extra discount for uploading ready to go artwork.
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I use several printers as I find different printers have different strengths but for cards I generally use Aubergine print and for leaflets and other stationary I use Caralan. Caralan will give additional discount if you sign up as a reseller and give them a press ready pdf or corel Draw file. I find that to get good prices a file ready to go is essential so be sure your artwork is correct.
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RCS do a reseller scheme as well, don’t sell a lot of print but have always been happy with what they have done for me. Alan, I think you are 100% right in that different printers have different strengths so it’s probably wise to use more than one company.
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RCS do a very nice brochure, actually calling it a brochure doesn’t do it justice it is very good but when you try to use it for pricing you need to be Eistein, by the time you’ve switched about sorting print cost then paper cost then carriage, take away the first number you thought of – sorry chaps too much messing about for a price. apparently its easier on line but the prices are too expensive anyway when you compare to others. Quality is high though with exceptional choice, a little too grand for the bread and butter letterhead. Just my opinion or course.
Alan D
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