While not free, I love Overnightprints. 100 business cards start at $10. Adding a glossy UV finish is no extra charge. They're fast, and I simply uploaded a jpeg of a business card I designed on my desktop.

Here's their pricing page: [www.overnightprints.com] .

hector7g

Wow, that's cool! :) Although you do have to have a color printer... and I don't. It's still a lovely idea.

lovelygirl

Or you could hire a professional... And have them printed at the place of your choice.

cumulus

Of course there is always Moo.com.

L. S. Russell

You've got to actually print, but PrintsMadeEasy.com has been doing this with as nice an interface for ages. We're on our third generation of cards from there. And the prices are so cheap that I'd never settle for self-printed cards.

morren

I hate printshops. To go there I mean. For some reason the staff is always rude or uninterested in what you actually want. It must be a dull job, printing other people's designs.

mr.Smith

I got my cards printed at print100.com. Website sucks (I spent more time trying to deal with the site than designing the card), but their prices are decent, the turnaround time is fantastic for something coming from China (if I remember correctly), and the quality is nice as well. Everyone I give the card to comments about how they like it (although that might be that it's an entirely matte black card more than anything else..).

I found it after searching through flickr tag "businesscard" etc. when I saw one that caught my eye and the person happened to mention where he got his printed. Before that I was going to go with some yucky place like vistaprint :(

crazylady

Jupp, should be www.businesscardland.com

labete

Bad link at "previously mentioned Businesscardland" ?

rasti

@hector7g: I have to agree with you about overnightprints.com I have used them for years, personally and professionally. Great prices, a great product and a lot of different ways to design your cards. Their best feature might be the templates you can download for a number of different programs.

Eating Cleveland

Everyone loves loves my Moo.com cards! Granted, I use them for my work in creativity and as a writer, so they fit better there, but for personal cards they really are wonderful.

Crystal

A couple of things to watch out for:

I've heard several horror stories of people breaking their printers when using card stock.

Ordering business cards over the internet means you don't have any idea what the quality of the cards will be like at the end of the day. I got burned by VistaPrint on that one...

engtech

@jafac:

See;

[creativebits.org]

RichardHead

VistaPrints (dot com) sucks.

Their "proofs" did not look anything like the final - and obviously, no human being looked at the final, because our logo text came out grey, instead of black (while the rest of the logo artwork and text was black - it was all black on the proof!) - and text didn't line up correctly on the back, so it ended up getting superimposed, therefore, unreadable.

Result: we paid for 100 cards that were garbage.

I can not recommend avoidance of Vista Print's "service" strongly enough.

jafac

@rasti: Sorry about that, updated thee link.

Adam Pash, LH Senior Editor

YIKES!

This thing is privacy violation central! I started to make a card and when I saved it it was featured on the home page with all my contact information! And then I looked and hundreds of other people's business cards were listed there too. I tried to find a way to make my card 'private' but couldn't. So I removed the card info, put in a fake email address (all are listed and you can't removed them). As soon as I can figure out how to delete my account I will.

Yikes! Forwarned is forearmed folks.

ProfessorWB

Jafac, I had a similar problem with Vistaprint. Never again!

Hector, Overnightprints is not bad at all price wise but 100 business cards are too few. I get more bang for my buck for 250+ business cards at [www.illbuzz.com]

Just found these guys out on Google - so far, so good.

rickyh11

For those who can't set the name card to "private", you can set it in this way.

- you can go to -> then click the button in the bar of "My Name Card",

- you can find that there is a little check box under each card thumbnail, you can check it.

- And then open the "Action" Tab in the right hand side,

- there is a "private" button , click it can private the name card.

joeip

@ProfessorWB: Actually you can private a card , when you design a card, the default is public and you can choose and click , you can see there is a check under each card thumbnail. You can check the box and at the right hand side, you can choose to private that card.

joeip