printing price lists

PasturesNew

For printing, 500 is a small quantity, so you'd always have to choose a printer offering "digital print", never litho (which requires a qualified person to set up the machine, run it all by hand, then completely strip down the machine and clean it out when they'd finished), litho is old fashioned/ink printing, so will always be hideously expensive for short runs.

For your website, you can have the price list on there and if you're using stylesheets (which you should), then you can simply load your price list with a "print version" stylesheet so people can print it off without all the other paraphernalia. It just needs a separate/simple css file to do this.

Edelman

Hello
I have just found this thread as I am looking for business cards and cannot decide on getting a small 100 amount, or a larger 500. I don't tend to see many clients, but it's good to have some real good quality 400gsm silk matt cards available.

One web site can provide me with a 50 batch for £13, on digital. Though they are about £30 for 100.

Another company can do me 500 double sided 400gsm matt lam (I've felt the samples and really excellent) for £30 inc delivery. They are LITHO.

So tell me, if I got digital cards done, and Litho cards done - would I really notice a big difference? My cards are just plain black text on white background. Purple (like Cadbury) in a block and a thumbprint sized area of warm green. I'm told Litho would print mine in CMYK, but Digital may not be? Is that right?

Do you get a far better print on Litho against Digital? To the untrained eye, is it really better.

Thanks.

PasturesNew wrote: »

For printing, 500 is a small quantity, so you'd always have to choose a printer offering "digital print", never litho (which requires a qualified person to set up the machine, run it all by hand, then completely strip down the machine and clean it out when they'd finished), litho is old fashioned/ink printing, so will always be hideously expensive for short runs.

For your website, you can have the price list on there and if you're using stylesheets (which you should), then you can simply load your price list with a "print version" stylesheet so people can print it off without all the other paraphernalia. It just needs a separate/simple css file to do this.