VistaPrint.com Review

I have business cards at work so hadn't paid any attention to online companies offering business cards, until I started working on my own web sites. I thought it would be nice to have some cards to hand out when folks ask about my sites.

One of those deal flyers was on the counter where I'd ordered something from Amazon. It was from Vista Print dot com. I could get 250 business cards for $1.99.

I went to VistaPrint.com and checked things out. I thought maybe the cards would be real low quality or that they'd have the printing company name on them somewhere for advertising (which wouldn't look too cool).

My hopes weren't super high, but the site looked nice. It was easy to navigate. Very simple to set up a business card with templates. There was an option to upload and design your own with a photo or graphic. I thought about that, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time and then be disappointed.

Fortunately they had a barbecue graphic which worked out great for my site Yes You Can Grill. I just selected that and filled in the fields with information.

A variety of other offers popped up like stationary and magnets and so on. Those looked nice too, but I just didn't know what I'd think of the business cards. I just clicked on through to get my $1.99 cards.

With the slow boat shipping that I selected the order came to around $11.

My business cards came in today and are cute as can be. They look better than they did online. Colorful and fun. (There are more traditional ones as well - but grilling seemed to call for something more vibrant).

My order was shipped the next morning after I ordered. They estimated 14 days on shipping, but I got them in five days. That was impressive. I was thinking, "Boy, didn't I just order those a couple of days ago?"

I showed my high school son my cards. He wanted one for his wallet and said they were the coolest business cards he'd seen. "Most of them are dull. Your cards look cool," he said. He's not generally very gushy.

There are some coupons in with my order.

I may do the custom card option next time and match the look of the cards to my site (being designed now by someone who knows what she's doing with Dreamweaver). Then again, I liked the ones they made with the template. I'll have to think on that.

I was quite impressed with Vista Print. The quality is nice. The business cards are cute. They didn't put their own advertising on there anywhere. They got everything right and got the cards here much faster than expected (before my web site templates have been completed in fact). I say thumbs up and will order again.