You’ll also notice, one printer only offers quantities of 100 and two of them start at 250. I thought that was peculiar that the per-card price actually goes up from 250 to 500. Some of these designs are very nice and may suit you well.Īgain, 40 ish point thick stock (Crane Lettra is a common one) is the name of the game, though these cards are each 1-color only. Often, ordering them is as simple as adding a design to the shopping cart and entering your text at checkout. Where was I? Letterpress business cards from templates
Very nice, super high-impact oranges that make people want to rub them against their faces. It may be sticker shock if you’ve ordered from the more popular online shops or even your local print shop – there, you may have spent just a couple cents per card. That means the average price per card for an order of 100 is $2.72. That’s what these numbers will get you: Qty: Some shops offer in-house design, but you’ll pay more for it.įor many print shops, a fairly standard business card is 2 letterpress colors on one side of a heavy paper (40-45 points thick) that contains some (or 100%) recycled cotton. That means that your cards have been properly designed in a vector-based program (in almost all cases) and is colored correctly with Pantone colors. This is commercial printing for designers – you’re expected to have camera-ready artwork at these prices. The one thing to note about custom business cards – The price doesn’t include design. The figures below come from the published price lists or pricing calculators of several shops and the figures provided to me directly be a few fellow printers. While the sky’s the limit with custom business cards, many printers have a standard configuration. If you’re looking for letterpress business cards, you have (by and large) two options: templated cards and fully-custom. There are a million ways to configure a letterpress business card – various sizes and paper weights, embellishments like foil stamping or embossing, edge-painting and a ton more. They look like they might even coming down some.Īll that said, letterpress is not what most people would call a “budget option.” Some options are much more affordable than others, though you may sacrifice quality or service to save. Demand rose first, driving the prices up, then supply caught up and prices levelled off. Supply and demand are definitely in play here. The mechanisms that were once used to deliver a “kiss” print were perfect for sculpting texture into thick paper. Then, sometime in the last decade, our tastes changed and these beautiful old machines found a new home. New, more efficient technologies (like offset and digital printing) replaced them. Presses that were once the center of every print shop in America suffered neglect and were often scrapped in the name of progress. Today, you’ll have your answer! But first, a little history.Ī lot has changed in the world of letterpress printing. There’s plenty of letterpress eye candy out there, but not a ton of answers about how much that eye candy costs. You might even be frustrated by round-about answers from printers who want to see your art before committing to a number.
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