Buying Note Cards

I like the small independants...like most of us on biznik....unique and not mass marketed...

This last Christmas I purchased holiday cards on www.etsy.com and was very happy with them!

Check out www.sendoutcards.com. Great service.

As a graphic designer and someone who tries to help companies out with self-promotion, I'd say check into having some custom cards made.

People think when they hear the word "custom" it has to mean expensive. But if you send out a note card with your company's logo on it, you're not only doing something nice, you're advertising. Having a simple card created with your logo and printed, can actually be pretty cheap. I know a good and very affordable printer if you need one.

A few years ago I had my business card image printed on blank notecards by a letterpress printer in Portland. I use them for quick notes to clients/vendors, thank you notes, as announcements with a custom insert, etc. I agree with Angela - "custom" doesn't necessarily mean breaking the bank. I've had a number of custom notecards printed for clients by a neighborhood two-man print shop at very reasonable prices.

I'm a big fan of levenger.com, they've got some great quality paper, decent prices, and a good order fulfillment process.

Letterpress can be a lot less expensive than you might imagine, produces a damn sexy product, and of course, you support a small business by going that route. The Seattle-based Book Arts Guild might be able to point you to a likely printer.

In the meantime, you might order up something from Paper Zone.

I, too, love levenger.com and crane.com, and both sites frequently have sales that lower the prices to something palatable.

I'm actually heading out the door now to pick up a bulk order of 13,000 note cards for a client of mine. The design is very simple, basically the logo and the word "Welcome". Initially they only wanted 1,000 but the printer gave me pricing for various quantities and the price difference between 1,000 and 13,000 was only a couple hundred dollars.

Leila,

Something I've found with Levenger.com is that they're not just your typical mail order house. You can negotiate prices with them at minimal volumes. I'm a huge fan of their notebooks, and my last order was something like 20 notebooks, they weren't on sale but I called up and told them I wanted 25% off, they just said OK.