flyer & business card design software

wenger08

Hi can anybody recommend a site or software that i can use to design myself some flyers/leaflets and business cards on please?

Templates would be the best way as i can get a feel for what i want and then just drag and drop?

Or is this process alot more complicated and requires a graphic designer?

Thanks

Figment

Vistaprint

wenger08

Figment wrote: »

Vistaprint

Thanks mate

Heard of them before, but do they have flyer design templates on their website? I cant see any....

Plus heard bad things about these guys, adding extra's to orders and putting their name on the back of my cards (i know you can get it without but this bumps up the price)

Figment

I've never heard of them adding extras to orders, although in common with many online retailer they do recommend (plug) extras throughout the ordering process, some of which you may have to de-select.

Long time since I've used them, but they've always put their name on the back of the free products - it's how they get more business, and as the saying goes, nothing in this life is free. As you correctly state the premium products don't carry their details.

zee_2

try http://www.serif.com/FreeDownloads/

googler

wenger08 wrote: »

Plus heard bad things about these guys, adding extra's to orders and putting their name on the back of my cards (i know you can get it without but this bumps up the price)

Business cards from VP that I just recd were cheap as chips, and had convincingly blank backs....

amywatson

I would suggest go for Design N Buy business card design software. It is awesome and lets you to customize business cards and personalization flyers as per your requirement with various layouts, templates, colors etc. Also it is easily integrated on any e-commerce platform.

BJV

I would be careful.

A long time ago when we first set up business we thought that we could save a few pounds on business cards and used a website, think it was Visaprint??? not 100% sure.

Any way spent a long time desgining and it looked fab, paid for the extra glossy, extra thick you name as we wanted them to look really expensive and did not want anyone to know they where not done on the cheap.

They arrived and they where terrible. Apparently it is something to do with the way colour's are displayed on screen and what they turn out like when you print. I am not a technical person but there is some long explanation but essentially that is it.

In the end we went to a local printing company who after beating them down on price where pennies either way but they where the way we wanted them and looked a really impressive.

TBH we still have the old cards and we now keep them to remind us of the good old days , well three years ago lol!

WilliamO

It's called CALIBRATE!!!......You basically need a colour profile on Windows that matches the colours on your printer. What you see on the screen at present will be different to what you see on your Printer.

Apple do not suffer too much from this in my experience. As an example; I have a pinkish background on one of my leaflets (on windows) which should be yellow, but when I display the same template on my Mac it comes out yellow. Also, Windows software tends to use the RGB format whereas Mac tends to use the CMYK format.

VistaPrint tend to charge extras and add V.A.T etc.....they advertise 500 business cards at £2.50 for example but then add double-sided, colour both sides, and so on into the equation whereby the £2.50 becomes £20+ in reality. Also, they do not cut the business cards well. I used their business template about a year ago for a friend's massage business and when he got them and showed me them only one side was glossy and the cut and quality was terrible.

PronoPrint aren't too bad, but are expensive. I would use MS WORD and create your own leaflet or business cards then have them printed with a local printing firm.

macman

You get what you pay for. Anyone can put together a flyer or business card using basic free software, but it will always look amateur unless you know how to design, or use a professional graphic designer.
Printing it is the easy bit-just supply a PDF to your local print shop.
You can't design a professional piece of work in MS Word. And anything intended for printing has to be saved in CMYK, as that's what it's printed in. It's got nothing to do with the platform being Mac or Windows-either can be used for graphic design, although most professional designers use Macs.