Discuss the various finishing services that can help showcase your brand. Topics include custom neck tag labels, hang tags, garment washes, folding, bagging and even shipment/packaging options.
Likewise Click will send you some free samples of actual cards. I recommend checking the samples out as it makes the difference between the glaze options quite obvious.
The downside being they seem to send them out several times... I have a lot of Click samples lieing around, which seems like a real waste.
Personally I'm a big fan of the matte celloglaze finish, which I'm guessing is the same as the satin finish. Generally it's a kind of waxy coating. Makes the card look more expensive, attractive, and subdued. Not as tacky as a gloss finish, and not as unprofessional as an unfinished card. Doesn't have that shiny baldman look. That said... not necessarily worth the extra money, depending on what you're doing with your cards other options can be just as good or better. Clearly this stuff is all very subjective.
The best thing to do would be to request samples from your printer. They should all be able to provide you with samples of past cards to show what their quality is like and to show the difference between finishes.
I agree that this is a super idea, but couldn't you just print up your own tags on business card paper? Wouldn't it be cheaper that way, plus you could print as few or as many as you like. Just a thought.
I agree that this is a super idea, but couldn't you just print up your own tags on business card paper?
Most of the time that would be really obvious and unprofessional looking (obviously this depends on your printer).
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Originally Posted by Brothawisdom
Wouldn't it be cheaper that way, plus you could print as few or as many as you like.
Cheaper yes, but given how cheap business cards are it might not be cheap enough to justify the quality loss. Plus it increases your labour, so you need to factor in that cost too.
Cheaper yes, but given how cheap business cards are it might not be cheap enough to justify the quality loss. Plus it increases your labour, so you need to factor in that cost too.
If you're doing a limited-run thing - say, a club event shirt - you could print up a dozen or so custom tags (for a biker club, a bike theme, etc) just for that run...
Print it on photo paper or medium card stock - stuff it in your paper cutter, use a medium hole punch, and off you go.
Printing it on the el-cheapo pre-punched business card stock, yes, that would look unprofessional.
for just a few bucks more you can get real hang tags full color on both sides Printing Hang Tags
and you don't need to drill a hole so they look profesional.
Last edited by Rodney; February 5th, 2007 at 05:09 PM.
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