Professional Printing Vs. Printing at Home

Re: Professional Printing Vs. Printing at Home

• julieanne912 member

  

  August 2015

  I printed my own inserts.  My home printer, which is a nice HP that we just got, would not print on cardstock that was sturdy enough to be my RSVP postcard.  It would do thinner cardstock just fine, if I fed it in sheet by sheet.

  
  

  But honestly, I'd get it all put together and then take it to like a FedEx Office (that's where I did my inserts) and have them print it for you.  They even used my paper that I brought in.  The cost wasn't much at all, and saved me a lot of time as they could print what I needed in 10 minutes versus me having to sit there and keep an eye on my printer at home for an hour or two while it printed page by page.

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• JediElizabeth member

  

  August 2015

  I found that doing it from home cut my budget for magnet STDs, invitations, response cards & thank you notes by about 40%. I bought digital copies from Etsy, and it was great. The vendor personalized everything for me, then sent me high res PDFs once I was satisfied.

  
  

  Vistaprint offers a free sample kit (https://secure.vistaprint.com/wedding-sample-kit.aspx) that allows you to see the size and texture of everything before you buy, which was lovely.We went for the linen finish on the invitations themselves, and just the plain matte finish on everything else.

  
  

  Also, Vistaprint has LOTS of discounts. Sign up for their email list and follow them for a few weeks - I gave myself a goal of 40% off, since I had a lot of time to play with, and I wound up getting them for about 45% off.

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