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Re: Business Cards
« Reply #15 on: Feb 20, 2008, 06:58 pm »
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It's almost surely the closest to free you'll find.

I'm still not quite sure why you'd really want free cards, if you're handing these out for business purposes.  The $5 to remove from Vistaprint, if that's correct, really does sound worth it.  I choose to go "cheaper" rather than "free", by printing them myself...plus I can print simply how many I need by printing them myself (in case I should change my mind what I want on them or move, which I do tend quite frequently....heck, I'm using checks from something like 4 residences ago still).

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Re: Business Cards
« Reply #16 on: Feb 20, 2008, 10:32 pm »
I agree Erin & to the piont of not bothering with these genericly designed free cards, which are printed on a cheap GSM card, that are not much heavier than paper.
I seem to have collected a lot of these lately & unless I write down the details straight away, they end up in the rubbish nin. Unlike better quality cards that I will  for future reference.
These days it easier to print out your own, as suggested. Or even have them produced by a Printer, which is about the same cost as a restaurant dinner, buying booze for a party or getting the odd latest toy gadget.
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Re: Business Cards
« Reply #17 on: Feb 21, 2008, 09:36 pm »
Name
Professional Affiliations

Address
(hey, I'm giving out a card as a business gesture, not as a drunken pickup)

Phone
Email

And a headshot
(visual reminder always helpful)

Formatted by myself, printed on gloss stock business cards - white, no graphics. I'm the SM, not the Production Designer or the person responsible for Program layout.




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Re: Business Cards
« Reply #18 on: Feb 21, 2008, 09:42 pm »
When I was doing my own business cards I found a graphic designer and traded out some tickets to a show for a card design.  Then I just emailed it to Kinkos and had them print out a few.  The best part was that I had the PDF and could change the text as needed.  But I would not recomend putting down your home address.  You never know where your cards will end up.  And if you only have a cell phone and you put that down as the phone number on you card make sure you answer it in a respectable manor.
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