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Postcard prices & sizes.
Delivery times.
Digitally printed postcards — fast postcards.
Offset printed postcards — cheap & high quality postcards.
Bleeds and your postcard printing file.
Files that we accept.
Postcard paper stocks.

Postcard sizes and prices

If you do NOT understand the relative sizes of the postcards, then have a look at our paper sizes explained page.

Fast.	Low unit cost.
Mini A7 postcard prices fast digital printing smaller quantities 5 day turn around 74mm x 105mm — ¹/₈^th the size of A4 Mini A7 Postcards prices — digital printing	Mini A7 postcard prices discount priced offset printing larger purchases 55% recycled paper 74mm x 105mm — ¹/₈^th the size of A4 Mini A7 Postcards prices — offset printing
Standard A6 postcard prices fast digital printing smaller quantities 5 day turn around 105mm x 148mm — ¹/₄^qtr the size of A4 Standard A6 Postcards prices — digital printing	Standard A6 postcard prices discount priced offset printing larger purchases 55% recycled paper 105mm x 148mm — ¹/₄^qtr the size of A4 Standard A6 Postcards prices — offset printing
Landscape DL postcard prices fast digital printing smaller quantities 5 day turn around 99mm x 210mm — ¹/₃^rd the size of A4 Landscape DL Postcards prices — digital printing	Landscape DL postcard prices discount priced offset printing larger purchases 55% recycled paper 99mm x 210mm — ¹/₃^rd the size of A4 Landscape DL Postcards prices — offset printing
Jumbo A5 postcard prices fast digital printing smaller quantities 5 day turn around 148mm x 210mm — ¹/₂ the size of A4 Jumbo A5 Postcards prices — digital printing	Jumbo A5 postcard prices discount priced offset printing larger purchases 55% recycled paper 148mm x 210mm — ¹/₂ the size of A4 Jumbo A5 Postcards prices — offset printing

TheOnlinePrinter is a postcard supplier and postcard printer, and our full colour printed postcards are supplied and printed in four sizes:

Mini postcards — 105mm x 74mm — A7 sized, this is one-eighth (¹/₈^th) the size of a standard business letter;
Standard postcards — 148mm x105mm — A6 sized, and is one-quarter (¹/₄^qtr) the size of a standard business letter;
Landscape postcards — 210mm x 99mm — DL sized, and is one-third (¹/₃^rd) the size of a standard business letter; and
Jumbo postcards — 210mm x 148mm — A5 sized, and is one-half (¹/₂) the size of a standard business letter.

All full colour printing of postcards can be ordered in the normal 'landscape' format, or in the 'portrait' format.

Delivery

TheOnlinePrinter is based in Campbelltown, NSW — an outer suburb of Sydney — and we deliver postcards to all parts of Australia (in fact, to almost all parts of the world).

Postcards can be sent by TNT Overnight Express, and they will arrive in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane, or anywhere in Australia the day after they are dispatched.
If you wish to utilise TNT's Overnight Express service, then you must specifically select that option as your delivery method.

Postcards are normally sent by way of TNT Road Express, and the time between dispatch and your postcards arriving at your address is normally:

A day (and sometimes two days) to Melbourne & north east Victoria, Sydney and regional NSW, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Newcastle, Canberra and the major cities in south east mainland Australia.
Two (or sometimes three) days to Hobart,regional Victoria, regional south-east Queensland.
Three of four days to regional South Australia, and the central and far north Queensland.
Five or so days for the remainder of Australia.

If you select Australia Post as your delivery method, then the delivery will follow Australia Post's normal delivery times. Please note that Australia Post costs more than TNT's Road Express service. There are several reasons for this. If you want to know why , then visit our Why Australia Post is more expensive than TNT page.

International customers (i.e.: customers outside of Australia) can view the international transit times on our worldwide delivery page.

Fast postcards — digital printing

Digitally printed postcards are printed in full colour on the front, but you can choose the back that you want (i.e.: full colour or blank).

There are two reasons for ordering digital postcard printing:

You can order small runs; and
You can have your job printed quickly.

You may order a hard-copy online proof if you submit your own file and and use our fast digital printing service. However, hard-copy proofs are not available if you use our free online postcard design service.

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Full colour digitally printed postcards can be ordered in any quantity from our regular digital postcard printer section, and you can place up to ten designs with the one order, but each design must be ordered ordered in equal numbers. For instance, you could order 300 each of four different designs, and pay the 1,200 full colour postcard printer rates.

Discount-priced and cheap postcards — offset printing

Our discount priced full colour offset printed postcards are supplied in set quantities, and you can have uncoated or Cello-glazed fronts. Our discount priced postcards are price competitive (i.e.: you can buy them cheaply).

Our discount priced postcards can have up to ten different designs on the one order, but each design must be ordered in equal quantities.

Online proofs are available if you submit your own file and use our discount priced full colour printing service. However, hard-copy proofs are not available with our discount priced full colour printing service.

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Bleeds and Your Full Colour Postcard Printing

If your postcards will print right to the edge of the page, then please be sure to supply your file with bleeds. Click here to go to our explanatory page on bleeds.

Files We Accept for Printing

We accept almost any type of file for pressing, and you can have up to ten different designs with each postcard printing order. You can see what we accept on our printing files accepted page.

We also have some pages that assist you in creating for your files on some specific software packages:

Postcard Printing Paper Stocks

Post card printing is really a bit of a specialized art, and a quick method of determining if you will be getting your postcard printing from a reliable source is to examine what paper stocks the postcard printing company uses.

Our digitally printed full colour postcards are created using 300gsm stock, and our discount-price postcard is done on 310gsm Satin Art Board.

We also offer a 350gsm stock that is a blend of recycled and sustainable plantation paper.

Never accept paper stock that is below 330gsm, or Art Board Stock less than 310gsm - it is just paper. Whilst your postcard printing job might look good, the card will not weather the storm of the post or a postcard rack.

Full Colour Postcard Printer and Possible Uses

Here are some ideas for the kinds of things for which you can use our post cards.

Invitation postcard printing;
Postcards advertising recreational businesses;
Wedding 'Thank-you' postcards sent from the honeymoon;
'With compliments' postcard printing;
Company promotional postcard printing;
Gift voucher postcard printing;
One page calendar postcard printing;
Postcards promoting holiday apartments;
Small map postcards with street directions;
Business post card (a business post card is really just an oversized business card, but is dropped into letterboxes and post boxes);
Real estate post card (it is becoming increasingly popular to hand out a dedicated real estate post card about the property that is for sale, rather than the old single-sided 'sprook sheet'); and
Up-market high-profit postcard printing.

We also recommend TheInternetPrinter's postcard printing service.