Product Description

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.com to design and print professional-looking business cards from your inkjet printer in minutes.

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Product Details

Publisher	Avery
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
EAN	0072782288785
Color	White
Brand	Avery
Format	Office Product
UPC	072782288785
Label	Avery
Studio	Avery
Title	Avery® Clean Edge® Business Cards, 2 inches x 3 1/2 inches, White, 80 Cards (28878)
Model	28878
Size	80 Cards
Manufacturer	Avery

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Customer Reviews

They work, but...

Review by Twiddles42, 2010-08-18

My printer handles printing both sides extremely well, using high quality ink and paper settings (Canon MX870). That's a big plus.

But there are some issues, and I've seen these happen on other printers, and creating new templates from scratch. Maybe it's a template issue,

1. Paper is too flimsy and light. The cardstock should have more weight to it -- I went to a symposium and gave out a few cards. They loved the design, but it's still a pie-in-the-face moment when they tell you the paper should be heavier and have a solid feel. That happened more than once, but it's possible I found all the pedantic people too. But theirs did have a gloss coat, more solid feel, and did feel more professional all around. There is more to image than design, even if design is a critical part to image.

2. Using the appropriate template in Word, the first 2 or 4 cards are perfect when printed. As the remaining rows print, alignment is lost in the process - the last 2 cards are 1mm off. I've tried many printers and there is a pattern: Expect up to 6 to be fully usable, iffy up to 8, and never expect all 10 to be usable. Note, a workaround is to not bother with frames or imagery that ties to the side of a page.

3. If you don't use a pigment-based printer, don't expect the paper to not smear the ink if you get it wet in any way. (Note: clear lacquer can be used to get around this issue, if applied slowly, evenly, and with a couple of coats.)

It might be cheaper to get a professional service, or ensure a design is used that doesn't anchor itself to the border, use a colored background, or has a precise distancing between graphical elements - later cards would lose their 'balance' and also end up looking unprofessional. Those with plain, nondescript cards will be suited just fine with the Avery cards, however.

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This is a winner

Review by Robert Hall, 2010-08-07

Avery knocked this one out of the park. The edge is very clean.

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Now that I have these it seems Stupid that I was Ordering Cards!

Review by Kitten Kisser, 2010-07-05

I love these! So easy to use! I am so happy with them. When I run out I have every intention of getting more. The instructions are clear, making this a quick set up. Anytime I need to print some cards, I just open up the file & print the cards. Simple as that. They snap apart really well. I have never had any tear. There is no way I will buy business cards again! I now have my own artwork, I love my cards & all it costs is the package of cards, some ink & a tiny amount of my time.
Highly recommend!

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Waste of money

Review by Brian D'abreau, 2010-06-30

I was very excited by this product so that I could create some low cost business cards at home. This product was horrible however. It was offcenter and all it did was waste my time and money. Do yourself a favor and just go order the real deal, you may even save money and still get much better prints!

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Off Center, No Bleed, and Thin

Review by Photoguy, 2010-06-29

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.

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