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Wedding invite printing:
rfalias
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Are there cheap places that will print say a couple hundred images of my own making on cardstock.
Doing wedding stuff and I've been working on invites and save the date cards, etc... to save money.
Is it worth it to do the design my self and have someone else print it? Are there online places I could just give them a PSD and have them print it out on 7x5 cardstock?
My image is (WIP, and obv. fake locations):
Doing wedding stuff and I've been working on invites and save the date cards, etc... to save money.
Is it worth it to do the design my self and have someone else print it? Are there online places I could just give them a PSD and have them print it out on 7x5 cardstock?
My image is (WIP, and obv. fake locations):
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You could then exacto them, or you could even take them to your local print shop and use their paper cutter (the kind with the big guillotine handle). I know Staples has a whole section set up for self-serve.
Sending it to a printer won't necessarily save you money versus having them done... by a printer. They don't charge anything for the designing, which is all you've done yourself. They charge you for the printing, which is what a printer will charge you.
For example, from Staples here, 200 colour copies of your design, 5x7 on 100lbs paper would cost upwards of $160.
they printed them out on some good-quality heavy paper and then just glued simple little decor (a ribbon and some nice borders) onto the cards
the effect turned out quite nice... it's a lot of work but they saved a heap of money doing it
Hmmmm... Would this work on a regular Crap Jet printer?
Mmm, thats not true, design is usually the most expensive part of the process unless you want something ridiculously generic from a template. Considering you only have 2 real colors there (a shade of red and black), you could probably get someone to do a spot print cheaper than 160 bucks. Check your local print shops, theyd be able to help you. After buying a decent printer, enough ink (Youre going to go through a lot of color carts printing something like that) and some nice paper, youre probably going to break even, or even spend more, and honestly end up with a crappier product in the end, versus paying a professional to do it.
I mean, if you plan on doing this a lot in the future, go for it i guess, itll be good practice, but if you just want some nice one off wedding invitations, get them professionally printed.
Oh and i know you said its a WIP, but a small suggestion, get rid of the 4 super squigly lines, they look like pubes.
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Seconding this because I went back to check the picture after reading this and now I can't UNSEE them as pubes
That's what I was referring to, not a completely custom tailored wedding invitation by some graphic design company. Do people actually get that shit done?
Not to rag on the OP's design, but that's an extremely simple and generic invitation, and you can probably find dozens out there very much like it. You're only going to be paying for the print-job when getting something like that done.
And I'll remove the pubes and see what it's like....
Damn you for pointing that out!!
And I know it's simple, we wanted it simple and with those specific colors.
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