After a few days of very slight alterations to my business cards I decided to go ahead and use a service I’ve always wanted to try, moo.com

Using their website is overall straight forward, but there were a few confusing parts which I thought I’d share in case anyone else comes across them.
Being a web designer I had to ensure that the design was in CMYK and at a resolution of 300DPI. This was minimise any risk of the cards coming back with a lower quality print than I expected or slightly different colours.

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  Finalised business card designs

Once I had my design I went off to moo, created an account and uploaded the 2 images I wanted to use, the front and back of the card. The next stage is to place the front image exactly where you want. In my case the image was too wide so I had to go back into Illustrator and change the image dimensions. A Simple fix to do but moo do use slightly different bleed dimensions than a few other sites I had looked at.

When you’re happy with the front of the card the next step is to design the back of the card. By default the back of the card is plain text on moo so you have to change the layout style then upload the rear image. You can then place/zoom/rotate the image in the same way you could with the front image, nothing new or different to confuse you here!

After entering my payment details and click submit I received an email at 9:21pm saying they had received my order details and were now processing it. This was on a Sunday night with the next day being a Bank Holiday in the UK so I wasn’t expecting anything until the end of the week.

Wow! Well what else can I say about the speed of moo. From ordering to receiving the cards on standard delivery it took 60 hours including a Bank Holiday, which in my eyes is outstanding.

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  Moo.com Exterior

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  Moo.com Interior

As soon as the moo package dropped on my desk I opened it up to see some nice simple packaging to keep the cards from rattling around during transit. However the first card I pulled out was disappointing, it seemed to have a white mark on which I hoped wasn’t continuous through all of the cards. Fortunately it seems that only 1 or 2 of the cards seemed to have these marks on whilst the rest are what I expected, not perfect quality, but for the money and speed I really couldn’t argue.

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  Front of the card

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  Rear of the card

So if you’re looking for a quick, affordable and good quality service then moo are very well suited to this. But what company did you use if you already have business cards, were you happy with the speed/quality of the prints and would you recommend them? I’d definitely recommend moo to anyone looking for a simple printing solution!

I’ll be handing these cards out like candy at the next conference I attend, as unfortunately I didn’t have time to get them prior to FOWD London! Have you already bought your FOWA London ticket? I heard good things about the Dublin one but I’m waiting for the speakers to be announced before I grab a ticket, so maybe I’ll see you there in October…