Printing greeting cards... whose service?

[dritz]

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Assuming you love what you see on your calibrated monitor, whose service is recommended for printing cards... that aren't going to further saturate and over sharpen your images. My wife wishes to send out a box of floral cards that we've shot together.

 

Thanks.

Dean

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[Orient XI]

You are the best person to see to the production of your personal greeting cards. Unless you have an exceptionally large circle of friends to whom you wish to send them, why not print your own? Unfortunately (or rather very fortunately in more general terms:D) you live in the Evergreen State where the European A-size papers are probably unavailable. Because of the ease with which prints can be resized in Photoshop and the 1:1.414 ratio of the sides a variety of sizes are easily available. Additionally envelopes, designed to take A4 (too large), A5 (large), and A6 (close to ideal) are also readily available here.

Nevertheless, the principle is the same. Take a sheet of printing paper of, say 8"×11" , and mentally divide it into 4 quarters. This gives 4 areas 4"×5½". In portrait format, print the two right hand side quarters with your print(s). The two left hand side quarters can be used for a title, and a © notice (just to reinforce the message that this is your own photograph:D). Cut the sheet in half to give two pieces of paper 8"×5½", and fold these in half to make a standard greetings card. All you need now is to find an envelope to fit.

[tobey bilek]

All the increased saturation is from consumer grade paper.

 

I use AiProLab.com. They print pics for wedding photogs and other events. Their lab maintains top control over color. Profile is under downloads.

 

I have downloaded their profile and soft proofed every image. Then I order the economy prints which they do not adjust at all. They come back PERFECT.

 

My watercolor teacher has reproductions made at a lab in Elmhurst, Illinois that uses a gilcee injet printer and they print a scanned original on watercolor paper. Results are wonderful Try an inter net search. I have seen the original and repros and they are very close. I can get the lab name if you wish. Send PM

[jaapv]

You are the best person to see to the production of your personal greeting cards. Unless you have an exceptionally large circle of friends to whom you wish to send them, why not print your own? Unfortunately (or rather very fortunately in more general terms:D) you live in the Evergreen State where the European A-size papers are probably unavailable. Because of the ease with which prints can be resized in Photoshop and the 1:1.414 ratio of the sides a variety of sizes are easily available. Additionally envelopes, designed to take A4 (too large), A5 (large), and A6 (close to ideal) are also readily available here.

Nevertheless, the principle is the same. Take a sheet of printing paper of, say 8"×11" , and mentally divide it into 4 quarters. This gives 4 areas 4"×5½". In portrait format, print the two right hand side quarters with your print(s). The two left hand side quarters can be used for a title, and a © notice (just to reinforce the message that this is your own photograph:D). Cut the sheet in half to give two pieces of paper 8"×5½", and fold these in half to make a standard greetings card. All you need now is to find an envelope to fit.

Or print standard 10x15 on a Canon Selphy printer.

[Orient XI]

Jaap, one of the first things I had to do when teaching Chem 101 in Washington State was to get the natives acquainted with the metric system. Even with cm added 10×15 will not convey very much to them. Evidence of this can be found in the absence of metric sizes in the fixed print formats in Lightroom 4.

 

Printing a few of the cards each day or so if the printer is otherwise lightly used will save ink being wasted cleaning the printer nozzles.

[jaapv]

. 4X6 :D

 

The Selphy has no nozzles - it has single-use colour foil. That makes it very practical. Mine gets used once a year at Christmas.