Full-color greeting cards start at $264.95, and you can order any quantity from 250 to 10,000 per line item. Most orders are produced and shipped within 3–4 business days. Prices below are store prices. A card with your name on it is remembered far longer than the email version.
Most print companies make you build a cart or fill out a quote form to see a number. Here is ours, up front. Prices are for full-color printing on both sides and include standard turnaround.
| Quantity | 16PT Aqueous | Per unit |
|---|---|---|
| 250 | $264.95 | $1.06 |
| 500 | $343.35 | $0.69 |
| 1,000 | $424.10 | $0.42 |
| 2,500 | $716.98 | $0.29 |
| 5,000 | $1,072.61 | $0.21 |
| 10,000 | $2,039.59 | $0.20 |
Those are representative quantity breaks — any quantity from 250 to 10,000 per line item is orderable in the store, and the price updates live as you change the configuration. There is no order too small to take seriously and no order too large for our presses.
If you want foil, letterpress, hand-deckled edges or lined envelopes, a specialist stationer will do it beautifully and we will not pretend to compete.
Our case is the run that matches your brand and arrives in time to be signed, which for December is most of the battle.
First orders are backed by our Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee, and our mistakes — cutting, quality, color shift, delays — get fixed, period. Read the guarantee in plain English →
| 16PT Aqueous | |
|---|---|
| Feel | Heavy, smooth, aqueous coated |
| Best for | Client holiday cards, thank-yous, anything meant to sit on a desk |
| Starting at | $264.95 |
| Mega online printer | Corner print shop | City Print | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price on a one-off order | Often lowest (loss-leader promos) | Usually highest | Competitive, published up front |
| Order size range | Large runs, high small-order minimums on some products | Small runs only — commercial volume usually outsourced | ✓ 25 to 100,000 per line item |
| Someone who knows your business | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Greeting Cards match your website, listing, and signage | — (you manage it) | — (print only) | ✓ one partner, one brand system |
| File problems caught before printing | Sometimes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fastest possible turnaround | ✓ (with steep rush fees) | Varies | ✓ 3–4 day standard on most orders |
That's an honest comparison — the mega printers really are cheaper on a single promotional order, and a good corner shop really does offer hands-on service. Our case is consistency: every printed piece tied into the same brand system as your digital presence.
Most orders ship in 3–4 business days. Covered by our guarantee.
We’d rather lose an order than have a disappointed customer. Don’t order from us if:
A physical card arrives in a month when the inbox is unreadable. Heavy stock is doing real work here — a flimsy card reads as an afterthought and undoes the gesture.
Shop this configuration →Sent after completion rather than with the invoice. It costs very little per client and it is the cheapest reason for someone to think of you again in six months.
Shop this configuration →Print the whole list plus spares in a single run. Splitting a card order across two runs is more expensive and risks a visible color difference between the halves.
Shop this configuration →Here's the actual sequence when you order: your file is checked by a person before anything prints — resolution, bleed, safe zones. If something's wrong, you hear from us with a fix, not a reprint bill. Production runs on commercial presses, not office equipment. You get tracking when it ships. If a deadline is tight, we tell you whether we can hit it before you pay — we've turned down orders we couldn't deliver on time rather than take the money and miss.
Want to talk to someone before ordering? Email info@cityprintexpress.com or call (888) 868-4451.
Ordered from us before? Tell people how it went → It takes a minute and it is the single most useful thing a customer can do for a small shop.
Earlier than feels necessary. Working back from a mid-December arrival, you need production time, transit, and the days it takes you to sign and address them — and December post is slower than the rest of the year. Our <a href="/tools/print-deadline-calculator/">print deadline calculator</a> will do the arithmetic if you give it the date you want them landing.
Yes, if you want it to work. A printed card with a handwritten line is the whole point of sending one; a printed card with a printed signature is a leaflet. Budget the signing time when you decide how many to send.
The minimum is 250 and the maximum is 10,000 per line item. Any quantity in that range is orderable in the store, and per-unit cost drops as quantity rises.
Most orders are produced and shipped within 3–4 business days — your exact turnaround is confirmed on the product page before you pay.
If it's our error — improper cutting, print quality, color or print shift, or printing delays — we fix it, period. First-time retail customers are also covered by our Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee. Full details are on our guarantee page.
