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Do any of you fine chaps out there sell a wide range of cardstock, or know someone who does? A local artist has just asked me to produce some fine art cards for her, but is being pretty specific about the dimensions. I've had a quick trawl around google, but can't find an exact match. Any ideas? The pic gives the dimensions I'm looking for. Essentially it's A4 sheet cut in half lengthways, and folded along the shorter edge. (yeah, I know the longer dimension should be 148.5 ).Cheers,

Tim

Could you say what printer you will be using to print these ?

John Purcell have all sorts of paper and board http://www.johnpurcell.net/ they may be able to help...

Their web site is not great, email them and get their price list.

swanlinnet wrote:Could you say what printer you will be using to print these ?

If I have to print them singly, I'll use the Pixma 6600D, (A4), but if I buy larger cardstock and have to cut/crease/fold the cards myself, then the iPF6100 (24" roll printer).

i think canson do some fine art card stock

and you could have it cut to size in you local commercial printers

Tim I was about to say canon do cardstock and I think HP do the same sort of range for their printers too.

Finding decent card at affordable prices is getting harder as the smaller independent paper mills get bought up and closed down. The card needs to be stiff enough not to curl when standing up but flexible enough to go through the printer. It also needs to be cheap enough that, when aded to the costs of ink, envelope, cellophane bag, and labour it can still be sold cheaply enough that the customer can make a profit. Oh yes, and the card needs to be double-sided in the sense that customers can write greetings on the inside with biro or fountain pen, etc. Many coated cards won't take ink, etc on the reverse side.

I generally sell cards to artists for 55p with envelope and cello bag. Artists can then charge retailers about £1 and the retailers sell them for £1.99.

Century Paper (http://centurypaper.co.uk/) do a small range of card. The 250 gsm and 300 gsm cards stock works pretty well in an Epson 4800 but the 350 gsm card is a bit hit-and-miss when it comes to jamming the feed rollers. (They used to do a superb 350 gsm card until the paper mill closed down a year or two ago.)

If you ask, Century Paper will probably send you samples of each of their cards - though it may pay to buy a small pack of each of the cards that might be appropriate in order to give them a good test and make sure they feed through the paper rollers.