Questions we actually get asked

Twenty-five cards. Most business orders run between 250 and 1,000, but we'll print 25 and we'll print 50,000. Published pricing starts at 100 — below that your price is confirmed in the cart before you pay.

Online, any hour — the catalog, all three price tiers and the calculator are open at midnight if that's when you have the time. Or call 833-682-8250 and somebody who knows the catalog will pick up.

Email [email protected] or call 833-682-8250 and tell us roughly when you ordered. We keep logo files on record, so there's no setup charge the second time.

Both. Most of our volume is business, but plenty of families order their Christmas cards from us every year — usually the 50 to 100 card list somebody has been maintaining for a decade. Christmas cards →

More than people first guess, because the list that matters includes referral sources and not just clients. Attorneys, CPAs, advisors and agents send each other work all year, and those names are the highest-return ones on the list — and the ones most often left off. Most small and mid-size firms land between 250 and 600. The profession pages go through it by practice.

Every design sits in one of three tiers. On the Good tier, with envelopes and imprinting included: under $2.86 a card at 100, under $2.35 at 250, under $2.19 at 500 and under $1.85 at 1,000. Better and Best cost more. The calculator will price your exact order.

It comes off on top of our everyday prices — 25% off the card price through October 15, then 20% by November 16 and 10% by December 11. Those table prices aren't inflated numbers waiting for a sale. The discount applies to the cards; services like addressing, mailing, logo setup and proofs are charged as listed.

In some situations, yes. Call 833-682-8250 and we'll tell you straight away whether we can set it up for your organization. Worth asking before you assume the answer is no — a lot of our law firm, nonprofit and healthcare customers can't pay any other way.

No. Up to four lines on the card and four on the envelope are included, in any of seven ink colors and seventeen font styles. Imprinting the card is free — it's in the price, not an add-on. A logo is $30 the first time and free on re-orders.

Up to four lines on the card and four more on the envelope. Seven ink colors — red, royal blue, hunter green, black, gold, burgundy and navy — and seventeen font styles. Pick a verse from our library or write your own.

Nothing. Imprinting is free — your firm name, your lines of text, your chosen ink color and font are all in the price you see. It isn't an add-on and it isn't a setup fee. Envelope imprinting is included too. The only imprint charge on the whole order is $30 the first time we set up a logo, and that's free on every re-order after.

Yes. Logo setup is $30 the first time and we keep the file on record, so re-orders in later years cost nothing extra. Multiple colors are fine — you don't have to flatten a two-color mark down to one.

300 dpi CMYK, at final size or larger, and clean artwork. A vector file (.ai, .eps or .pdf) is best because it scales without softening. A high-resolution PNG or JPEG usually works — send what you have and we'll tell you honestly whether it will hold up at print size rather than printing something fuzzy and hoping you don't notice.

Yes, and you should. An envelope that's recognizably yours before it's opened is an envelope that gets opened. Envelope imprinting is included, and foil-lined envelopes are available.

Every order includes envelopes. They're in the price you see — not an add-on, not a surprise at checkout.

$20 for a printed proof mailed to you, and nothing goes to press until you approve it. On any order carrying a logo we'd push you to take one. It's the step that catches the thing nobody spotted on screen.

You are, and we'd rather say so plainly than surprise you later. Once you approve a proof, what's on it is what prints — spelling, names, layout, logo placement. That's the whole reason the step exists, and it's why we'd rather you took an extra day over it than rushed.

Close, but not identical. Monitors vary, and printed ink is an approximation of what's on your display. If exact color matters on your order — a brand color in a logo, usually — buy the proof and look at the actual paper.

If the printed cards don't match the proof you approved, or they arrive damaged, tell us within 14 days of delivery and we'll reprint them. That's our error and we fix it at our cost. See shipping & returns for the full policy.

No, and it isn't us being difficult. Your cards carry your name, your firm and your logo — they can't be resold to anyone else, so a return would just be destroying them. Every personalized printer works this way. It's the reason the proof step matters: you approve it before we print it, and if what arrives doesn't match what you approved, that's ours to fix.

September or October, and the discount is the smaller of the two reasons. Cards mailed early land on the wall before the December pile arrives, so they get seen for longer. And the version of you that orders in September is a great deal calmer than the version placing a rush order on December 3rd. The early-order discount takes 25% off the card price on top of our everyday pricing if you order by October 15, then 20% by November 16 and 10% by December 11. After that it's everyday pricing, and you can still order through December 21.

December 21. Order by then and your cards are in your hands in time to get them in the mail before Christmas. That holds wherever you are in the contiguous states.

No. December 21 is what's possible, not what's sensible. A card mailed on the 22nd reaches people somewhere between Christmas and New Year, in a week when they're half out of the office. A card mailed in early December — or better, a Thanksgiving card in early November — lands on a wall that still has room on it. We publish the last date because you deserve to know it. We'd just rather you didn't need it.

Three reasons, and the first one is just arithmetic.

Yours arrives alone. Every vendor your client works with sends a card in December. Yours lands in a pile of forty, gets three seconds, and goes in a drawer with the rest. A card that arrives the first week of November lands on a wall that still has room on it — and it stays there through the whole season, while the December cards stack up underneath.

The message fits the room. Thanks for the relationship is the most appropriate thing a business can say to a client on the whole calendar. It isn't religious. It isn't commercial. It doesn't ask for anything. And you never have to guess what somebody celebrates, or whether they celebrate anything at all — Thanksgiving is the one holiday where gratitude is the entire point, and gratitude is what you were trying to say.

You're a calmer person in October. The version of you choosing a card in early autumn has time to get the list right and the wording right. The version doing it on December 3rd takes whatever ships fastest.

Most of the industry is fighting for December attention. It's the smartest card most businesses aren't sending. Thanksgiving cards →

It moves with the season. The pattern worth knowing: September and October are comfortable, and the first two weeks of December are not. If you have a hard deadline, tell us before you order — note it with the order or call 833-682-8250 and we'll give you a real date rather than a hopeful one.

Ground shipping within the contiguous United States, priced by quantity. You can see the rate before you order — it isn't calculated at the end and it isn't a percentage of your order.

Calendar cards are heavier, so they ship for a little more. Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico aren't covered by these rates — call 833-682-8250 and we'll quote it.

One first-class stamp for a standard card domestically. If you're inserting anything extra — a photo, a note, a business card — weigh one before you buy a roll of stamps.

Yes. Addressing is $75 for the order. You send the list, we print the addresses on your envelopes.

Yes. $350 for the full mailing service — we address, stamp, seal and mail from your list. Most people who have hand-addressed 400 envelopes once do not do it twice.

It's used for your order and nothing else. We don't sell it, rent it, trade it, or market to it. That matters more to our business customers than almost anything else on this page, so we'll say it plainly. It's in our privacy policy in writing.

Standard card is 7⅞ × 5⅝ inches on 12pt stock. A 14pt upgrade is $15 on the order — noticeably heavier in the hand, and worth it if the card is representing a firm.

Every one. It matters to a lot of our customers and it matters to us.

For orders of 1,000 or more we'll work with you to design and produce a card that's yours alone. That's a conversation rather than a shopping cart — call 833-682-8250 or send us the details.