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Originally posted by canucker
When you say there are templates for adobe and microsoft office products, what am I looking for? I don't need anything fancy for now. Just a jpeg and some font on the card is all i'm looking for. This business is REAL small. I just don't know what too search for.
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The minum order for most printing companies is around 250 cards, which may sound like alot but if your small then you should be putting those in the hands of all prospective business you meet.
Google terms like "Business card template" and "Office card template" for an idea of what's availible.
Jpegs are of a quiltity not suitable for proffesional printing. TIFF's are standard in the print industry. Any printer will be happy if you provide a high res TIFF. They'll curse you under their breath if you have them work with a difficult to scale and low res JPEG.
It may serve you better to find a printer first, find out the size of the image they need to fit a business card, and create it in photoshop as a TIFF.
If your going with Kinkos, still find out what file type and resolution they want.
Just please tell me your not trying to make a business card with more than a couple colors. I'm a designer and i can tell you that everytime someone hands me a buisness card with a full color backround image with color fonts i cringe. A buisness card is your chance for a first impression and something crisp, sparse, and proffesional is a thing of bueaty in my book. Hardly every has a CEO passed out a color buisness card.
My cards are on bone white watercolor stock with my name and contact information in Verdana black and my proffesion and credentials under my name in Pantone true red.
Look into the pantone system at a later date when your company grows and you need more buisness cards and advertising. It's the international color system all printers in the world use and by spec'ing your colors you can garaunte that no matter who does your printing, it's identical. That's later though.
Hope i've helped a little.