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.

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.

Website: http://www.printfree.com/Business_Cards.htm

Do you want to get business cards for free?

In this post, we are offering some personal insight on the featured proposals to get pack of the professionally looking business cards from some Internet services FOR FREE.

Alright alright, hold your horses! There’s no such thing as free business cards. I don’t care if they say they’re free, I don’t care if they guarantee they’re free, and I don’t care if they really are free- they’re NOT free! Allow me to take you through a theoretical journey to support such a claim.

The Pop-Up

So naturally, us consumers would click on it because… hey, it’s free business cards, right? So let’s proceed!

Disappointment #1

Okay… so if you want to limit yourself to their preset templates, then you’re still getting free cards! Woohoo! But, if you want to put your own business logo or design on your business cards, we’re up to $19.99. So, let’s assume you’d probably want to put your logo on your business cards (I mean, it just makes a little sense to put your own logo on your own business cards). Let’s continue!

Disappointment #2

Okay, so you’re still good for 250 free business cards, but don’t be too upset when one of them disintegrates into thin air! You can usually upgrade to the 100 lb. Cardstock option, but that will bring your free business cards up to $27.98 (assuming you’ve uploaded your own logo).

Also, for those who aren’t too familiar with paper stock options, 100 lb. still isn’t very durable (comparable to an index card). What you’re probably looking for is a 13 pt. or a 14 pt. Cardstock which is rather comparable to the thickness of  a credit card. Let’s carry on!

Disappointment #3

Now this one is controversial… On one end, making an account with a printing company can be very useful for reordering your things quickly, but for stuff like getting some free $27.98 business cards? Completely annoying. And when you make an account, make sure you don’t sign up for special VIP offers. Unless you want to delete 10 extra emails every day, go for it!

The Recommended Products

Oh. My. Goodness. If I want something else, I’LL GET IT MYSELF! Nobody needs to go through 20 pages of offers when all they want is some free business cards that are costing almost $30.00 dollars now! So after 15 minutes of neglecting every single offer, dare we continue?

The Shipping

Holy crap! 2 Weeks for shipping?! We’ll at least want 1 week shipping (it’s considered priority for no reason at all) because although getting it in 3 days would be awesome… it’s almost $22.00 dollars.

Let’s Review Our Order

250 Free Business Cards – $0.00
Your Logo – $19.99
Not Tissue Paper – $7.99
Priority 7 Day Shipping -  $12.99
Total: $40.97

Now… you might be saying “Well, you selected options that cost more money.” This is true, but let’s try the bare minimum… just for the fun of it.

250 Free Business Cards – $0.00
No Logo – $0.00
Toilet Paper – $0.00
Half a Month Shipping – $7.99
No Land Tortoise – $0.00
The Printing Company’s Logo Watermarked on the Back – $0.00
Total: $7.99

Alright! The bare minimum of free business cards still costs about $8.00! You could just buy 12 rolls of 2-ply toilet paper for 8 bucks!

To Sum it Up

If you want some durable, great looking business cards with your complete design on it… don’t mess around with this free stuff, get some legitimate business card printing, your business deserves it. Otherwise, you’ll end up spending a ton of time and money customizing “free + $40.00″ business cards that will just end up disappointing you in the end.

Source: http://shmoggo.com/blog/?p=4

CardWorks - Freeware Business Card Design Software

CardWorks allows designing and printing your own business cards:

·         Create and print your own business cards

·         Select from a wide range of templates

·         Easily change template color schemes

With an extensive range of business card templates, CardWorks makes it easy for anyone to create business cards to fit their personal or corporate brand image, giving your customers and business contacts easy access to your contact information.

Main Features

·         Wide selection of business card templates included.

·         Download additional business card template designs.

·         Adjust template color schemes.

·         Supports all standard business card and paper sizes.

·         Create single- or double-sided business cards.

·         Store names and addresses for multiple businesses.

·         Add a company logo, employee photo or other user picture (supports many formats including jpg, gif, tiff, bmp and png).

·         Templates include bleed, ensuring colors go all the way to the edge of the card when cut.

·         Print with crop marks to easily trim cards to size.

·         Export to a high resolution PDF and take to a printer.

Screenshots (Click to Enlarge)

Operating systems:  Windows XP 2000/2003/Vista/2008

Developer: NCH Software

Website: http://www.nchsoftware.com/businesscard/index.html

Direct Download: http://www.ziddu.com/download/14080944/cardworkssetup.exe.html