squirrel antifluff

11:54 pm - 01/01/2004
i want to make my own stationery but i'm unsure on the best method to print it. i want it to be full color and for the ink to spread over the whole page. i have a good printer and can print out my own copies but the ink would bleed if it got wet. i'd like a professional job. ideally i'd like to have the quality of sanrio stationery.

can anyone recommend a good place to get stationery printed?

thanks :)

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tarteheart 2nd-Jan-2004 12:09 am (UTC)
I <3 u for spelling "stationery" correctly. And I think it's funny that you want it to be Sanrio quality. But I don't know.
antifluff 2nd-Jan-2004 12:15 am (UTC)
haha. i always thought i was the one spelling it wrong until i looked it up in a dictionary one day and saw that i was indeed right. :)
glitter_glitz 2nd-Jan-2004 02:45 am (UTC)
Try Kinkos, they do everything.
antifluff 2nd-Jan-2004 02:46 am (UTC)
yes but i'm looking for a place that i can do several thousand sheets affordably. kinko's has the highest prices on the market. thankyou :)
glitter_glitz 2nd-Jan-2004 02:50 am (UTC)
Which is true. You'd probably have better luck asking around your town then. Places online seem to be pricey as well.
wolfgoat 2nd-Jan-2004 07:23 am (UTC)
Your best bet is to look for a local offset printer. You would do the prepress production in a layout program like Quark or InDesign, and a rep from the printer will help you pick out papers, colors, and other things you might want. The type of paper and number of colors will influence how expensive the run is, and if you're doing envelopes, you'll need to consider whether you can afford to do bleeds or not. If you are going to do bleeds on an envelope (a bleed is when the ink runs all the way to the edge of the item), then the envelopes will have to be printed in flat sheets, die cut and assembled, which is much more expensive than printing onto premade envelopes.

Pricing will vary depending on what you want, but I paid about $100 for a two-color job of a folded card and a blank envelope. I had 100 prints done. The cost gets significantgly cheaper with successive runs, as long as you don't want any changes made to what's being printed. Then instead of going through the labor-intensive process of making screens and stuff, they just take your old ones out of storage and re-run them.
kellbot 2nd-Jan-2004 07:54 am (UTC)
I'd suggest looking into companies that make promotional materials for corporations. It's reeeeally easy to find places who will make letter sized loose stationary (try www.marktheworld.com) and just a little harder to find places who will do bound notepads and such.

the trick, of course, is finding a company that will let you buy the amount you want... most of them like you to order quantities of 500+
ethicalcannibal 2nd-Jan-2004 10:30 am (UTC)
I put this in the faq under "papercrafts".
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