Recently I find more and more questions typed by people all over the Internet in all kinds of forums
dealing with Business Cards, asking for tips, hints and even full detailed instruction about how to manufacture their own Business Cards at home, using their own domestic means and knowledge.
The reason is obvious: people want to save money, cut expenses and avoid ordering Business Cards from professional sources like Print Shops and printing websites. Most of them are students who had just graduated and are making their first steps in the long road of searching for a job, others are High School students who start juvenile businesses, many others are fired people who found themselves out of jobs and try to start all over again, and even ordinary craftsmen, tradesmen, business people, free profession people, who want to pay the list for the most in advertising and promoting themselves and their businesses.
The possibilities are available and handy. All you need are: a personal computer, the appropriate software, a desk printer and the right type of paper. There are professional and semi-professional software for graphics like: Photo shop, Free hand, Corral draw and Paint shop but you don’t need to have those because even “Word” of “Microsoft Office” has a Business Card designing tool.
The domestic printers of today, color laser or ink jet printer, can deliver fine colorful products and you can feed those printers with 300 gram chrome standard Business Cards paper.
Those who are looking for shortcuts and saving money in Business Cards manufacturing are winners, in the short term, and losers, in the long term. The Business Cards you distribute among people are supposed to represent you or your business. The way the card looks reflect who you are, what you think about yourself, how do you feel about what you are doing and include a hidden clue about the quality level of your image. This is why manufacturing Business Cards is a matter for professionals. There are several parameters and aspects one should take care of when it comes to design an attractive Business Card:
The background color. Uploading a “Logo” on. Using pictures, illustrates, photos, images, decorations and so on. Choosing the adequate types, sized and colors of wording fonts. Write the maximum information using the minimum words you can.
There are some professional additions to Business Cards which I can hardly think of how to produce them domestically:
Lamination. Rounded corners. Matching products like: magnets, stickers, fliers and so on. Colored backside. Vertical cards
If the motivation to create your own Business Cards by yourself is economically then you better check those professional printing websites because most of them offer 50 – 250 business cards for free, except a small price for handling and shipping. The free cards are simple and basic but respectable. If you need more than 250 cards it will cost you full price but yet we are talking about $15 to $100 (5000 cards!) with the ability to choose your preferred design out of many choices.
The bottom line is: don’t try to manufacture your own Business Cards amateurish. Leave the shortcuts and the wisecracks aside. Order your Business Cards from the professionals so you’ll be proud to circle them around and they’ll serve you right.