Postcard Printing
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Our full colour printed postcards come in three sizes:
- Standard postcards - this the commonly used 148x105mm A6 size, and is one-quarter (¼) the size of a standard business letter;
- Landscape postcards - 210x99mm DL size, and is one-third (1/3 rd ) the size of a standard business letter; and
- Jumbo postcards - 210x148mm A5 size, and is one-half (½) 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.
Learn more about postcard printer pricing and online design.
Full Colour Digital Post card 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, black and white, 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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Standard A6 Postcard Fast Digital printing prices.
Landscape DL Postcard Fast Digital printing prices.
Jumbo A5 Postcard Fast Digital printing prices.
Mini A7 Postcard Fast Digital printing prices.
Full colour digitally printed postcards can be ordered in any quantity from our regular digital postcard printer section, and you can have as many designs as you wish, provided you order at least 250 of each design and each design is 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 and Cheap Full Colour Postcard Printer
Our discount priced full colour postcard prints are offered 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).
Please note that you can only have one design with each Discount and Cheap postcard order. If you are after multiple designs, then try our rapid digital full colour postcard printing section.
Alternately, you can always place an individual discount priced postcard printing order for each individual design that you want printed.
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.
If you do not want to find out about bleeds, then the easiest way to prepare your postcard file is to use our free online postcard design service. All you need do is:
- Save your file as a JPEG file; and
- Upload your JPEG file via our free online postcard design service.
You receive an online proof immediately. Also, you will not have to pay a file processing fee.
Free Postcard Design Service
Use TheOnlinePrinter's free online design service to create a printed postcard from scratch or to submit your existing postcard file. You can design double-sided postcards online. You can place your text and images wherever you wish, and you can choose to have background colours or background images too. We even provide templates for those who might need a bit of assistance.
There are several advantages of using our free online postcard printer design service:
- There is no file processing fee if you use the free online design service, whereas if you submit your own file via the regular ordering pages there is a file processing fee;
- You can get an online proof of your postcard immediately, whereas files submitted via the regular ordering pages may not be processed until the end of the next business day; and
- You know that your file has been accepted to be printed, whereas you will not know whether your file is 'press ready' if you submit your file via the regular ordering pages.
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 350gsm stock, and our discount-price postcard is done on 310gsm Art Board.
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