scar1337’s graphical adventures

When it comes up to interviews, or workshops that you attend, it’s always useful to have business cards to carry around with you that you can leave your contact details with the speaker/workshop director/lecturer etc.; it’s not the most professional if you leave your details by the traditional pen and paper, is it?
When professionalism is continuously and increasingly in demand, there are plenty of sites that offer their business card printing services as of late, it’s a bit of hit and miss with the different companies and their services; I have so far only tried two, and both of these companies do hell of a lot more than just business cards, but I’ll concentrate on that solely since that is what I have purchased from them:

- VistaPrint - very cheap and different choices of delivery, depending on your urgency for a new business card or not. single or double sided printing, and choices of colours. They also have ready-made designs for you to choose from, but those designs aren’t great, not to mention the copious amounts of spam you get from them after using them once.  So I give it 6/10

- MOO – affiliated with Flickr, it lets you upload or choose directly from the photos that you have uploaded onto your Flickr account (if you have one). There are two formats that you can choose from; the default 3~”x2~” or MiniCards, which measure 28 x 70 mm, they’re rectangular and much smaller. And printed on 350 gsm matt laminated. Quite quite cute and special. There is also a Troika card holder which you can order along with your order (due to the dimension of the card holder it’s only applicable for the default dimension business card; MOO sells a separate MiniCard holder) as shown below:

The card holder contains two slots; one for your own cards, and one for the cards you receive! Ingenious. I give MOO 9/10 [I can't be too nice.]

And lastly, one I am going to try next time I have a new set of cards to print.

UPrinting is an online print company that does full colour (well, color, since it’s an american company) printing from brochures to window clings. They also do die-cut business cards and lots more at a reasonable price, which is good for those that don’t like the generic choices of either one or two-sided printing on any paper stock your printing company chooses.
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