Avery Two-Side Printable Clean Edge Business Cards for Inkjet Printers, Matte, White, Pack of 200 (08871)

Product Description

Vying for a big account? Need to break the ice at a business meeting? Armed with plenty of these Clean Edge Business Cards and a little confidence, you can accomplish anything you set out to do. The nonperforated, two-sided printable cards are extra sturdy with smooth edges for a standout way to make your message known. Take advantage of free blank and predesigned templates from avery website to design and print professional-looking business cards from your inkjet printer in minutes. Looks like this deck is really stacked in your favor. Clean, smooth edges for a professional presentation. Two-sided printing provides greater surface area to give your clients key information. Extra-sturdy, matte-coated cards feel substantial in your hand. Convenient do-it-yourself cards mean that you can make changes to your design as often as you like. Design and print from your desktop in minutes. Print only the number of cards you need. Compatible with inkjet printers. Customize and print using free templates from avery website.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #444 in Office Product
• Size: 200 Cards
• Color: White
• Brand: Avery
• Model: 08871
• Published on: 2009-01-21
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .31" h x 8.75" w x 11.13" l, .78 pounds

Features

• Clean, smooth edges for a professional presentation
• Two-sided printing provides greater surface area to give your clients key information
• Extra-sturdy, matte-coated cards feel substantial in your hand
• Convenient do-it-yourself cards mean that you can make changes to your design as often as you like
• Design and print from your desktop in minutes

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

39 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Exactly what I wanted
By Camy Tang
I don't know what printers other people have, so be aware that I have an Epson Stylus Photo 785EPX. These cards work perfectly fine for me, I've never had a problem with alignment or anything like that.

The ink sets immediately, no smearing. The type is crisp like a laser printer. My colors turn out great.

Since this is a matte finish card, there isn't the professional glossy look, but that's what I wanted so I'm fine with that.

It's true these cards are not as thick as the super-professional ones like my husband got from his work, but then again they also paid a great deal more for their cards. For the cost of these, the thickness is fine.

The edges are clean cut. Personally, I can only barely tell there's perforations.

I felt like I got more than my money's worth for these cards. If I wanted a more professional look (like thicker cards, gloss), I'd naturally have to be willing to pay more.

Update (9/05): The newest cards I got were significantly thicker than the older ones I had. They're comparable to other business cards I've been receiving.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Off Center, No Bleed, and Thin
By Photoguy
I thought this would be a good product after reading the reviews. However, the paper is thinner than most business cards which causes it to feel cheap and curl up on itself.

I thought I could deal with that until I tried printing, where I noticed the real problem. See, the Avery template for these business cards has the group of cards centered on the page. However, the actual paper with the business card cutouts has a few extra millimeters on one side than the other. This means that every time I tried printing, the cards were a little off-center (both horizontally and vertically). I adjusted the AI template to try to match the business card paper (the front side anyways; the back side would need the template to be moved in the opposite direction), but getting exact results is nearly impossible.

One final huge downside with these is the fact that, although there is clearly room on the paper for the cards to be spread out a little more, they are all right next to each other. That throws out your option to print with a bleed for colored backgrounds on your cards. Even if you get your template properly aligned, which is not an easy task, and try to print colored backgrounds without a bleed, there are always slight printer variation when it takes in a piece of paper from one piece to the next, so you will probably not be printing a completely colored background, and you will probably be ruining one or two other cards in the process.

The only reason this is worth the one star is because, in theory, I can still get three full bleed or ten white-background cards per sheet, however low quality they are. It will perhaps give me something to practice on before submitting my cards to a professional printing service (which would probably have cost less than buying the paper here on Amazon the first place).

In retrospect, I probably should have gotten the Avery 8373 as it appears those do have a boarder for bleeds, but I'm not going to waste my money on that now considering that the paper quality could sill be low and off-center.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Professional Gorgeous Cards
By R. Callahan
These are GREAT. You can bleed off all four sides to create gorgeous full color cards on your ink jet printer. The only trick with the Microsoft Word template is to make a text box (insert menu > text box) that is larger than the table cell for each card so your graphics print beyond every edge. Or - make your own template in a design layout program. Then when you snap them apart - no white gaps. The paper is thick and the edges are crisp and clean.

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