Business Card Help

[Brett]

Hello PSP'rs! My name is Brett

I hope I am not breaking any rules right off.

And wow I am glad I had the Belarc Advisor installed before I came here.

I use PSP 5, 6 and 7 from way back then.

I am designing a business card for my electrician friend.

2 years ago another PSP forum helped me with this but now I think they closed
up shop. I had the info needed saved on a flash drive but it is now long
gone.

I need to know the size/pixels of the image I will be using for the card
and the DPI. I recall that I neded to work in JPEG. Also the size was much
larger than the image of the card when finished.

Any help/advice will be so appreciated.

Thank you in advance

brett

[jasonwills]

Hello,

I am looking for a very long time for business cards printing services but, now I need this services urgently, So, please suggest me some best printing companies for it?????

Thank you in advance.

[bruce1951]

Not sure where you are but try these folks.
I've used them and they are QUICK.

https://www.vistaprint.com/business-car ... 5339&GNF=0

bruce

[hartpaul]

The OP is designing a business card. We need to know the size of the card as some business cards can be differenbt sizes.

Measure the size of the width and height of a card in inches and multiply those values by 300 (for 300 pixels per inch ) and that will give you photo quality in case you are using an image on the card.
You can actually work with a much larger image so long as you resize it down to the dimensions multiplied by 300.

eg. suppose your card was 3 inches by 2 inches then your final image for printing needs to be 900 x 600 pixels . You need to set the resolution of your image to 300 PPI - note that this is an instruction to the printer in how many pixels to print in each inch the printer can vary the number of dots per inch depending if it is a draft print or a high quality print eg if draft was 150 dots per inch and you were printing 300 pixels per inch then this would mean that each dot would represent 2 pixels and teh image woulkd be very coarse. If it was printing at 300 dpi then each pixel would be represented by 1 dot of ink so fine quality can be 600 , 1200, 2400 dpi for higher detail quality.

You could actually work on an image that was 2700 x 1800 and then resize it down to 900 x 600 pixels.

[Kathy_9]

The OP posted in 2014.

[JoeB]

The OP posted in 2014.

And the second poster should be doing a Google search in the area where he/she lives to find a company that does business cards.

[bruce1951]

I posted a link to Vista Print, (I have no affiliation with them other than being a customer). I never worried about size, pixels, dpi or ppi. I simply looked up their sizes. Sent them text and an image. They did all the worrying and sent back a proof.

It was so easy I wouldn't bother doing it myself unless you wanted the challenge.

bruce

[hartpaul]

Whoops!! 2014, and looks like the OP did not get any response back then. Second poster should have started a new thread but as indicated a Google search in that person's area should find a business card printing service either a physical shop or an online service.
If however if it is urgent and / or on a weekend then anyone proficient with PSP can whip up a quick business card template, email and get approval from the client, and then print off a set of 10 or 20 cards to suit the client until a proper service can be obtained.

[Joelle]

I use these;

https://www.avery.co.uk/product/busines ... -c32011-25

Then print them in an ancient program called Visual Labels, but I am sure there are other programs you can use, or fiddle with the PSP Print Layout..
You can make the image in PSP, save it, then add it to the label, resize for the perfect match.

Joëlle

[bruce1951]

I haven't looked but I would bet QIamge would do business cards.

bruce

[tankprints]

Sorry late to the party! We do recommend submitting business card images which will include bleed, so make sure to submit your cards with the dimensions of 3.625" x 2.125" to account for bleed.