greeting cards

I have some questions on greeting cards?

I have been selling more greeting cards as of late and I have been printing on either Epson’s heavyweight mat or premium luster paper and mounting them in photographers Edge greeting cards.

I like the finish product but is very time consuming.
I want to continue the hands on of printing my own cards.
The Epson 1280 I was printing my cards on, went kaput and I am now using my 2400 and that printer is just a plain ink hog!!!. At lest for that kind of printing.


My questions are.
What would be a low cost printer that would produce excellent quality prints to buy?
How do you go about producing your greeting cards?
Also any other advice would be helpful.

If this subject has been discuss before I apologize.
Thanks you
joe

I get nice card stock and glue 4x6 prints onto the cards

If you're going to stick with Photographer's Edge cards, I would recommend having images printed instead of printing them yourself. Most all small printers have problems with ink expense. Only when you move up to printers (expensive) that use large ink cartridges does ink expense come down. Check out the Red River Paper website for information on their line of card stock and recommendations for printing cards.

http://www.redrivercatalog.com/

I recommend Red River Paper for cards-- -The carry card stock in various sizes( with envelops) -- you print directly on the card---no need for gluuing, etc--- Jennifer

John, a proffessional lab will print these for you and the quality is perfect while the actual cost are much more reasonable. I recommend Millers or Allied in Michigan.

http://www.millerslab.com/ or alliedphotos.com

Joe....I second West MI Photo Works. Their name was been changed to Lake Effect Digital recently and they also print cards now.

Joe, I would strongly recommend Red River Paper for for paper including card stock. They even recommend a few low cost printer for exactly what you are asking, printing greeting cards. I have used Red River for some time now, the Red River line of papers are excellent, low cost and their service is great. check them out. Red River Paper

It sounds like you are inserting the prints into the cards. For this, the best and least expensive way is to get prints made by either a place like Costco or MPIX. Believe it or not, you can get good prints from Costco. And if you aren't happy with the colors, they will reprint them to your satisfaction.

If you still want to print your own, then I agree with the Red River paper recommendation. I have printed hundreds of cards on their glossy card stock with great results. I bought a bulk ink setup for my small Epson on ebay, about 45 bucks and it lasted at least as long as 3 or 4 changes of ink would have taken.,