Advice for semiprofessional printer to buy. Pls.

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Fabian writes
Hi all there,

What I have also not found good paper suppliers in Uk. Can you
recommend anyone? By having a paper supplier, I can also have a better
idea of which printer I need to buy.

Viking-direct would probably be a good place to start.

And what about the business cards format?
I was told that I need to use an A4 sheet precut to print business card
formats. Do these give professional results?

People like avery produce the precut business card sheets. I _think_
the print shops will print on card and then use a professional
guillotine to cut them.

Do we take it then that you are looking at opening a printing shop?

--
Timothy

wrote:
Viking-direct would probably be a good place to start.

I have contacted them and they sent me their catalog, but I have heard
of suppliers that send a sample of each type of paper the have
(coloured, glossy, matt, papyrus, special, etc). Are also Viking the
cheapest? I find them quite expensive.


And what about the business cards format?
I was told that I need to use an A4 sheet precut to print business card
formats. Do these give professional results?

People like avery produce the precut business card sheets. I _think_
the print shops will print on card and then use a professional
guillotine to cut them.

Do we take it then that you are looking at opening a printing shop?

No :-) printers I aim to buy are that professional?

I believe I should have been a bit more expert if I wanted to have a
printing business.

it is an online business. The printing is even not the core business,
however, if requested, I need to be able to print correspondance (data
and headend) and post ot and/or list of addresses onto envelopes from a
db, excel, txt file.

Then I see how far it goes with the printing requests.

Cheers,
Fabian

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Fabian writes
wrote:
Viking-direct would probably be a good place to start.

I have contacted them and they sent me their catalog, but I have heard
of suppliers that send a sample of each type of paper the have
(coloured, glossy, matt, papyrus, special, etc). Are also Viking the
cheapest? I find them quite expensive.

With Viking you need to look at all their catalogues to find what you
want at their cheapest price. If you find them expensive who are you
finding cheaper?

No :-) printers I aim to buy are that professional?
No!

I believe I should have been a bit more expert if I wanted to have a
printing business.

Thats what I was going to say, if you had said yes, it was just that was
what I thought was being implied by the suggestions of printing cards
and brochures when orders start to come in.

--
Timothy

On 31 May 2005 04:45:00 -0700, "Fabian" wrote:

wrote:
Viking-direct would probably be a good place to start.

I have contacted them and they sent me their catalog, but I have heard
of suppliers that send a sample of each type of paper the have
(coloured, glossy, matt, papyrus, special, etc). Are also Viking the
cheapest? I find them quite expensive.

I've bought from Viking sometimes, but not for inkjet paper other
than for standard text printing.

For the type of printing you mention the best places to go are, for
example, MX2 (www.mx2.co.uk) On-Line Paper (www.on-linepaper.co.uk)
Papermill Direct (www.papermilldirect.co.uk).


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wrote:

With Viking you need to look at all their catalogues to find what you
want at their cheapest price. If you find them expensive who are you
finding cheaper?


Sorry it was Neat-idea. Actually I have not compared prices yet.


Thats what I was going to say, if you had said yes, it was just that was
what I thought was being implied by the suggestions of printing cards
and brochures when orders start to come in.


Well, as my mentor suggested me, I start very low key and I go where
the market goes...

Fabian

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Fabian writes
wrote:

With Viking you need to look at all their catalogues to find what you
want at their cheapest price. If you find them expensive who are you
finding cheaper?
Sorry it was Neat-idea. Actually I have not compared prices yet.

Sometimes they come up with decent things but then they argue about
delivery, Viking can manage free delivery to the Isle of Wight, but Neat
Ideas struggles with that.

--
Timothy

wrote:

Sometimes they come up with decent things but then they argue about
delivery, Viking can manage free delivery to the Isle of Wight, but Neat
Ideas struggles with that.

Do you live in the Isle of Wight?? or is it just an example?

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Fabian writes


wrote:

Sometimes they come up with decent things but then they argue about
delivery, Viking can manage free delivery to the Isle of Wight, but Neat
Ideas struggles with that.

Do you live in the Isle of Wight?? or is it just an example?

Both.


--
Timothy

wrote:

Both.

Curious: I live in Soton. And have u got a prining biz there?

Fabian

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Fabian writes


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Both.

Curious: I live in Soton. And have u got a prining biz there?

No, wightproperty.com so I do a fair bit of printing, most of which
includes photos.

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Timothy