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PSPrint has less of a laser focus on business cards than some competitors like Vistaprint: The company prints everything from banners to magnets to stickers. But its card offerings are ample, and it’s one of only two online business card printing services we’ve tested to offer die-cut options, which can give your cards a distinctive shape. PSPrint’s design options are respectable, its prices are very reasonable, and the service delivered a quality product in our testing.
Pricing and Starting Up
PSPrint’s pricing is a bit hard to nail down, since everything appears on the ordering page with a 60 percent discount—this was the case over several weeks testing, so it isn’t a one-shot deal. It also held for multiple orders over that time span. The least-expensive option for my test card job cost just $8.06 for 50 cards on glossy C1S 14-pt. stock, after the applied discount to the purported $20.15 list price. (C1S means it’s coated on one side and the “pt” stands for 1,000th of an inch, so 14 pt. is 0.014 inches thick.)
That means PSPrint has the lowest-cost entry price among the online card printers I tested. The next cheapest service I tested, GotPrint, charges only $8.30 for its minimum order of 100 cards. For 500 cards, you pay less than 2 cents per card at GotPrint, 3.3 cents at PSPrint, 4 cents at Vistaprint, and 25 cents at MOO (for 600, since MOO oddly doesn’t offer a 500 quantity). With PSPrint, you pay more for faster production turnaround, so if you’re willing to wait a few days longer, you can save on costs. If you can’t wait even a day, consider Staples($9.99 for 250 Business Cards at Staples Print & marketing Services)(Opens in a new window), which offers same-day card printing for pickup.
At the higher end, PSPrint offers 120 lb. Ultra cards starting at $31.90 for a 25 count. You can also choose Slim (3.5 by 1 inch), Jumbo Square (2.5 by 2.5 inch), and Mini Square (2 by 2 inch) sizes. Except for Jumbo Square, the optional shapes cost slightly less than the standard size; Jumbo Square costs double what Standard does.
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The most expensive order type features full color on both sides, Jumbo Square shape, and Soft Touch 15 pt. Velvet cardstock. This costs $71.32 for the minimum 250 card order for that quality. That’s a good deal, compared with $49.99 for just 50 similar cards from MOO—PSPrint’s per card cost for this high-end order is 28.5 cents, compared with nearly a dollar for MOO. Even bumping the MOO order up to 200 (250 isn’t an option) only brings the per-card cost down to 84 cents. Vistaprint’s similarly specced cards run just $49.50, or 19.8 cents per card and GotPrint charges just $39.94, or 16 cents per card.
Other PSPrint Products
Like MOO, PSPrint mostly sticks with paper printing, but there’s a good range of products in that realm, with banners, booklets, letterhead, notepads, and stickers among its offerings. Non-paper printed materials you can buy from PSPrint include coasters and magnets. Vistaprint extends the possibilities to include clothing, drinkware, and even USB flash drives. Like GotPrint and Vistaprint, PSPrint does offer professional design services if your needs exceed your artistic talents. PSPrint’s business card design services start at $90, while Vistaprint’s start at $10, though the latter doesn’t include the price of the printing and cardstock.
Designing Your Business Cards Online
PSPrint lets you browse its selection of over 250 card templates for inspiration. Alternatively, you can upload a design in JPG, TIF, PDF, PS, EPS, or PNG format. The templates look good and modern—more so than GotPrint’s, though they are not quite as slick as MOO’s.
The card-designing interface is clear and intuitive, with a left panel for adding text, images, objects, and lines. A second tab on the same panel lets you switch templates. You can freely move text boxes and images around the card, unlike with MOO, which locks you into its template layouts.
I missed Vistaprint’s ability to snap to align text boxes with other existing elements. Without this, you have to eyeball elements to align them, though PSPrint does show grids and an optional ruler. Undo and Redo arrows are helpful for correcting things when you goof a step in the design process. PSPrint conveniently saves images you upload for use later.
You can change the design template after entering info, and the service saves your previous options in the Recently Used tab. When I entered my information on one card and then started over with a completely new design choice, PSPrint preserved my contact details, which is helpful. You get over 40 font choices, a bigger selection than GotPrint offers, though fewer than MOO’s 48.
Clockwise from top left: PSPrint, Vistaprint, MOO, GotPrint. Click to enlarge.
Results, Shipping, and Print Quality
For both of my two test orders (entry-level and high-end), I received an email immediately upon ordering and then again five business days after placing the order telling me that it had shipped. That fits exactly with my 5-day turnaround option. My Vistaprint order arrived in only three days, but I can’t fault PSPrint for delivering exactly what it promisted. You can pay more for faster turnaround. I tested both the most basic 14 pt. C1S Gloss Cover option and the top-end 100 lb. Brilliant White Linen Cover cardstock. The latter arrived just two business days later in a well-cushioned box within a box—the standard packaging you associate with business cards. It didn’t have the fanfare of MOO’s nearly museum-quality packaging, but it was perfectly well protected.
My Linen test cards were beautifully printed, with crisp and well-filled-in text, and the photo and logo had accurate colors. If I were to choose again, however, I’d avoid Linen, since the texture distorts the photo, and it’s not quite as thick and impressive as triple-ply cards from MOO and GotPrint.
The entry-level order arrived just one day after I got the order-complete email, and it sported well-printed text and logo—better than what both GotPrint and MOO did at their cheapest levels. The cardstock was also better than GotPrint’s admittedly inexpensive $8.30 order, but not quite as nice as Vistaprint’s entry-level cards. PSPrint’s font choices enabled me to get the large NYPD font closest to the requisite Rockwell Extra Bold used by that organization.
Clockwise from top left: MOO, Vistaprint, Staples, GotPrint, PSPrint. Click to enlarge.
Quality Business Cards
PSPrint’s pleases with its pricing, web interface for designing custom cards, and many options. Furthermore, it delivers well-printed cards on high-quality cardstock. Our online business card printing service Editor’s Choice, Vistaprint, has a slight edge when it comes to the card-designing web interface and the quality of the delivered product, however.
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PSPrint delivers quality business cards at a low cost, with good design tools. It’s one of the best online business card printing services we’ve tested.
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