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On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:38:01 +0100 Paul Sutton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Grant Sewell wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:55:05 +0100 > > Rob Beard wrote: > > > >> Ahh that'll be Vista Print the cheapo online printing company. > >> They're pretty good for business cards and the like (even if they > >> do insist on spamming me special offers EVERY day. I wouldn't > >> choose a template like that for a site though (I did use a > >> template for my site but I did heavily tweak it and I'm tempted to > >> replace it with e107 or Joomla (is it Joomla? can never remember). > > > > I was in my local chippy the other day and noticed a handful of > > cards for different businesses on their pinboard all with the same > > VistaPrint design. > > > > Cheap, maybe. Original? Definitely not. And I'm of the opinion > > that if your card looks like everyone else's on a pinboard, you > > won't get noticed. > > > > Grant. > > > They have several designs that are free, you just pay for postage, > and you can put what text you want on them, the other side indeed > has the vista print website on > > for me they are a good source of cards, that I can give to people for > contact purposes. > > if you pay for both cards + postage then you can put text / graphics > on both sides. > > they offer a good service, its easier then trying to print them your > self, struggling to get things lined up, sorry I do struggle to print > business cards, even using windows. DIY is fine with knowledge and the > right kit, if you don' have that then you simply end up with a non > professional look at the end. > > Paul I found a logo I liked from TemplatesBox.com, modified it a little in GIMP, waded through the tonnes of fonts I seem to have accumulated over the years to find a nice, clean one, then used GLabels to put it all together. I bought a box of 500 print-it-yourself business cards from Staples for not-a-lot-of-money. It certainly wasn't a quick process, but I'm happy with the results and I only print off a handful at a time, leaving me ample opportunity to modify the cards if I choose to do so. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html