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You can use greeting cards for many purposes — wish your clients a happy birthday, send holiday greetings, or thank your clients. Clients love to receive greeting cards in the mail from you! And with our low printing prices, it is much cheaper to purchase greeting cards from Publishing Xpress than to buy them in a store. Plus, you can customize the message and look of the cards.
Turnaround
Our normal production time for greeting card printing is 3 business days after proof approval. Weekends and holidays are not counted in the business day calculation.
Expedited production times include:
2 business days after proof approval for an additional 10%
1 business day after proof approval for an additional 25%
Same business day as proof approval for an additional 100%
Please call us to make sure that we can process your order the same day. Whether we can do it depends on how early in the day we receive your file and how many copies you need.
These production times only include processing within our facility. They do not include UPS shipping days to your location. Please see the shipping page to determine how many days it will take for UPS to deliver your order by ground service, which varies from 1 to 4 business days. UPS also offers overnight, 2nd day, and 3-day shipping options for an additional charge. Don’t forget that orders over $399 receive free UPS shipping.
Once you add your order to your cart and start the checkout process, you can input your zip code and get an estimate of UPS shipping charges for all shipping options (ground, 3 day, 2 day, and overnight). While we will charge you actual UPS shipping costs, we have found that these estimates are fairly accurate.
Sizes
For online greeting cards, we offer six standard sizes:
5 x 7 (folds to 5 x 3.5)
5.5 x 8.5 (folds to 5.5 x 4.25)
6 x 9 (folds to 6 x 4.5)
7 x 10 (folds to 7 x 5)
8.5 x 11 (folds to 5.5 x 8.5)
9 x 12 (folds to 6 x 9)
Paper
We offer numerous paper options for greeting card printing orders. We only carry white paper; we do not carry cream or other colored paper.
All of our papers are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) as being responsibly forested. All of our standard paper stocks contain 10% to 30% post consumer waste content.
For greeting cards, we offer:
- 80# matte cover
- 80# gloss cover
- 100# matte cover
- 100# gloss cover
- 120# matte cover
- 120# gloss cover
Please feel free to order our sample kit, which includes a plastic coil bound book with samples of all our standard paper stocks. Many clients find this very useful when deciding on paper stocks for their greeting card printing orders.
Lamination
At Publishing Xpress, we offer the following lamination options for greeting cards:
- One sided gloss lamination
- Two sided gloss lamination
- One sided soft touch lamination
- Two sided soft touch lamination
- One sided leather lamination
- Two sided leather lamination
- One sided linen lamination
- Two sided linen lamination
File Setup
Your online greeting printing files must be submitted as high-resolution PDF files, which will embed fonts and graphics. This will ensure that nothing on your page will shift or move to another page, which often happens when the native file is opened on another computer. Before uploading your file, please review every page of your PDF to make sure it is correct.
You will have the opportunity to upload your greeting card printing files during the ordering process.
Your customer service rep will review your greeting card printing order before it is printed and again before it is shipped. They will often notice things like layering issues, low-resolution graphics, and even typos at times. If they notice a printing issue with your online business card printing, postcard printing, or rack card printing order, they will contact you so that it can be corrected. We cannot guarantee that we will notice all issues with a particular order.