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Business Cards

I can certainly help you out with a card. Can you let me know what leo photo in particular you would like to see used. Also, I can save an image without the extra text. You can send photos and contact info to: [email protected]. The larger the photos the better.

Thanks for the opportunity.
 
I agree, I like that that one is better to read... I should have filled in the "front" lettering. Such as this :
 

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Not to butt in and point out the obvious (I didn't go through this whole thread either). Web graphics are at a very low resolution (usually 72 dpi or lower). Anything pulled offline is inappropriate for print. You want minimum 300 dpi to be able to print clean graphics.
 
Hey Stephanie, I did mention this earlier to them. To quote myself...

Just an FYI with these business cards…. You should really be building these files at 600 DPI, or at least 300 for the best results. If you just grab the jpg from here, the quality will really lack. Stretching or increasing the DPI will distort them as well. Also, most printers require at least a 1/8in bleed as well, so everything can be cut to size without errors in cutting/cropping. So essentially, the cards should be 3.75 x 2.25 in size. Make sure everything is tabbed in at least 1/2 in from the 3.75 x 2.25 dimensions to ensure nothing will get cropped. Most printers will not even print without a bleed.

Another important thing with printing is the color. Right now these photos are in RGB color and they need to be in CMYK color. There’s not a huge difference, but there definitely is with any black values. Also, you should print these out, actual size and look at them. There's a big difference looking at them on a screen, and seeing them in hand.

A lot of printers can print high quality jpg or eps files, but some still want full control. If that's the case, they'll need your source file as in: illustrator, photoshop, quark, or indesign. Most companies use Quark. Along with the source file, you'll have to provide the fonts used.

I really think you should take all of this into consideration before trying to take one of these images somewhere. If you’re going to invest $50-100 in cards, I’d want them to look their best. This is just my 2 cents...
 
well i just wanted to offer my services.
the company i currently work for purchased a vinyl printing company that makes full color buisness cards at what i understand is a very good price. so if you or anybody cares you can contact me and i will get pricing for whatever quantities you are looking for. we also have designers on staff but there seem to be plenty of talented people willing to design it for you.
 
See, told you I didn't read the whole thread! Just the first 2 pages! :)

I just grew concerned when someone was pulling web graphics off of someones site to build the business cards.

And I would have to disagree with you stating Quark is the industry standard. It's on it's way out the door (THANKFULLY). InDesign is taking over where Quark left off. Sadly, their will be a number of companies that will take a long while to catch up with the rest. The company I work for is still using OS9 and Photoshop 5! I hate when the Quark and Pagemaker jobs come in! :)

As long as he provides a high resolution PDF, their should be no problems. The majority of printing companies have an editing software in their Adobe Acrobat that allows them to edit the PDF. We use Pitstop.
 
DiabloBoa said:
well i just wanted to offer my services.
the company i currently work for purchased a vinyl printing company that makes full color buisness cards at what i understand is a very good price. so if you or anybody cares you can contact me and i will get pricing for whatever quantities you are looking for. we also have designers on staff but there seem to be plenty of talented people willing to design it for you.
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Does your co. do vehicle wraps? I am considering doing up my vehicle... I think it would be cool!
 
Hey Chad...do you want me to redo the card I designed for you?...you know so its bigger and higher resolution and in photoshop format or smt like that.....let me know
 
Ryan or Stephanie, or anybody else, maybe you can help me.
I designed my own business card, and it looks good printed on my printer, but I want "real" cards, you know like the old days, rather than ones that look like they were printed on a regular printer (even from a print shop). Hope that makes sense.
Anyway with the programs I have I am able to save it in tiff, jpg, gif, and png (microsoft picture?). I don't have any of those programs you mentioned. So my question is, do you guys know if one of those types of files would work? Would the print shop be able to convert it? Or is it possible to convert it to pdf with the basic adobe? If not I suspect it would be cheaper to have them just make it from scratch than to buy one of those programs.
 
A lot of places will print business cards from a high resultion jpeg file. I've done that will all of my cards actually. I build all of my documents at 600 dpi and then just save it as a huge jpg to give to them. If you're using a color other than white that runs to the cards edges or past it, they'll probably want the card to be sized 1/8in larger on all sides. Like i said before, that way when they cut these down to size, everything lines up well.

If you don't have the capability of adjusting your dpi/resolution, I or someone else here may be able to recreate the card again for you. This time at a higher resolution for print.
 
o0 RYAN 0o said:
A lot of places will print business cards from a high resultion jpeg file. I've done that will all of my cards actually. I build all of my documents at 600 dpi and then just save it as a huge jpg to give to them. If you're using a color other than white that runs to the cards edges or past it, they'll probably want the card to be sized 1/8in larger on all sides. Like i said before, that way when they cut these down to size, everything lines up well.

If you don't have the capability of adjusting your dpi/resolution, I or someone else here may be able to recreate the card again for you. This time at a higher resolution for print.
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I'll try the jpeg route then. I'll have to play around with my programs, but I'm sure one of them gave me the option of saving at 600dpi or higher if I remember correctly. The background, and edges are white, except for one edge where I have the front half of a snake coming onto the card, so it would be okay if a little is chopped off in the process. Thanks for the help
John
 
OK, I got my card from Christina (THANKS CHRISTINA!), I downloaded Photoshop, resized the card to 3.5 x 2.0. But now I don't know how to print it from Photoshow, how do I set it up to print on the business card paper, 10 to a page? I have DesignPro software that I normally use, but it won't open Photoshop files.

Any ideas? I am so bad at this stuff :(
 
Jeanne, so you have the perforated sheets of paper. This is a pain in the butt since photoshop doesn't have any sort of setting to line up to the card to the paper. You're going to have to get out your handy dandy ruler, and figure out the dimensions on the perforated sheet. You'll need to create a new document 8.5x11in at 300dpi or more. Then you'll need to lay guides in photoshop according to your measurements. From there you throw the card in and duplicate the card 9 more times. Line them all up with the guides/measurements. Basically you want the photoshop document to mimic the sheet of paper

After that the printing is really hit or miss. Your measurements could be off, and when the printer actually feeds the paper through its not always straight. It's the biggest pain in the butt to lay them out in photoshop perfectly for printing on those sheets.

If you give me measurements and the card, I can try to help. Like I said, it could be hit or miss. I've done this before and maybe half the cards came out okay, the rest were off. It also took like and hour of testing and tweaking. I wont do it anymore, considering i can get 500-1000 cards for $65-85 professionally printed.

Let me know if you need any help.
 
not sure how to do it on those programs, my migrographx draw has a businuss card feature that you plug in your paper stock number and it does it all for you.
 
She may be able to find a premade photoshop or pdf template from the net for the stock. If not, she can at least probably find the dimensions off the net. Didn't think of that.
 
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