Print my own A6 glossy postcards at home.

AHerron

Hi Guys and Gals,

I've been searching for quite a while but I have yet to find a store (online or high street) that sells A6 sized glossy postcards so that I can print my digital camera photos on one size and the other size is pre-printed with the usual lines for writing addresses on.

Does anyone know where I could find such a thing?

Several digital photo shops offer me the service to upload my photos and print them onto postcards but they are fairly steep (e.g. £8 for 16 of the same).
I'd just like to print my own as and when.

Many Thanks,

Abigail

windym_2

Welcome to MSE.

I invested in a cheap guillotine and buy Tesco glossy A4 for next to nothing and cut it down to size. It looks perfect.

Merkin

You want something like the Canon Selphy CP200 printer.
It's a dye sublimation printer so it has a protective coating. A lot of the photo printers are inkjet based and they aren't waterproof.

The paper packs come with a postcard back too.

I got mine from Pixmania because they were doing a special deal on the consumables too. I think I paid about £80 for the printer.

The prints work out to be about 20p each.

This one is mains only and seems to be discontinued but they have a whole range.

Here's a review for mine:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/cp200.html

If you pm me I could send you a postcard so you check the quality.

AHerron

Super Thanks for the ideas. I am going to investigate both of them.
Thanks again.