Thursday, October 6, 2011

Printable Basic Business Cards from Printfree.com


Online services PrintFree offers the site visitors to add their own text and print their own basic business cards directly from the website for free with the ink jet printer, connected to the computer.

Directions for making your own basic business cards

You don't have to register, log in, or pay us to use PrintFree site. No strings or hidden conditions are attached to this offer. Here, you can play with your text, appearance, and content.  Best of all you can make them right now and start giving them away right away.

Just add your text and print away. These are very conservative on ink usage to keep printing costs down. You get forms to make variations of cards using two basic types of paper:
  • First is the perforated 2" X 3Ѕ" style commonly found in office supply stores. These sheets have a half inch border on the top and bottom, and a three quarter inch border on each side, 10 per sheet. Due to inherent borders added by your web browser, these will be centered slightly different from card to card. The perforations and high quality paper do make it easy to make very professional cards.
  • Second, you can format with lines for regular, non-perforated paper. These will be just a hair smaller in height than the other cards, and the lines will be guides, since you will have to cut out the cards yourself. With care these can have a very professional look as well. Use a good quality heavyweight card or photo style paper for best results. Set your printer settings to high quality.
    You will only be printing text here, so ink usage is minimal.

Chose the one of two forms, which you are going to use and select from 5 available color templates:
·         Black.  All the print on this card is black.
·         Red.  The title on this card is red. All the other print on this card is black.
·         Blue. The title on this card is Blue. All the other print on this card is black.
·         Green. The title on this card is Green.  All the other print on this card is black.
·         Mixed. These are full colored cards in five different colors. 

I chose the Mixed color scheme with Lines to create a sample. After entering the data, you can almost instantly generate 10 cards conveniently placed and ready for printing.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

The drawback of the service is low customization ability and no option to add images and graphic. But, if you need to create them fast, on the go, and for free, that might be an acceptable solution.



No comments:

Post a Comment