![]() You'll have to cut the cards down when you're done, but a cheap paper trimmer from Office Depot can take care of that. You can pick up 110# card stock in quantities of 250 sheets for $9.99 at Office Depot or Office Max, so your looking at $.03/page and with 4 cards per page, that's less than a penny a QSL card! So, I've found that if you want to design your own cards, and don't need large quantities of 200 to 500 cards (which is what you have to print to make custom printing cost-effective), the best answer is to pick up 110# card stock in 8-1/2 x 11 sheets (comes in many different colors), design your 3.5 x 5.5 card and lay it out in "4 up" fashion and print it. I've used the bigger ones, but they're really a bit too big for a QSL card. I've also tried Avery postcard stock, but they don't make a 3.5 x 5.5 in card stock. Runs about $9.00/500 cards - pretty cheap. I don't know what the weight is on the stock but it's not as heavy as most QSLs that you see. They come in a sheet of 3 cards with perfs to tear off the cards. A color cartridge is only $4.95 and a black cartridge runs me $3.95.Īs far as paper stock, I've only found one source that makes a QSL standard size postcard in the 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" size and that is made by Sparco. The Canon i470D that I picked up produces excellent photo-quality images and the best part is that the ink is CHEAP. ![]() I finally gave up on the HPs in favor of Canon when I got into digital photography. Having owned HP inkjet printers in the past, a cartridge can run you $30 or more, and that's times two since the HPs have separate color and black cartridges. If you have an HP, that can run into a bit of money if you plan on printing any volume. I've found that I can make a beautiful, professional-looking QSL card using Photoshop Elements and I'm sure the same can be done with any of the other great graphics packages.Īs far as the cost of printing your own, much of that has to do with what ink for your printer costs.
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