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I have used Kinkos for all of my printing and as long as you bring your own paper, it's super cheap! Especially if you're just doing B&W. It's wayyyy more expensive if you don't bring your own paper though - I found that out the hard way. I was just at Staples this past weekend and printed about 200 sheets of B&W on regular white paper and it was $91!!! Last time I was at Kinkos and had things printed on my own nice paper, it was $7. Big difference!
I would definitely try calling local printing shops - even (and especially) those that don't focus on weddings. By supplying your own paper, those methods should be far cheaper and better quality than doing it at home.
Ink is expensive, plus it takes a lot of time to do it from home. I had originally planned on doing all my own paper goods, printing them at work in our marketing department (yay!) on their fancy machines.
But I ended up finding some invites I loved at a good price and saved myself some headaches :)
I did print my envelopes (gasp!) on my work printer. I tested it on my home HP and it was SO much better at work.
Good luck!
I definitely call around and see - inkjets are expensive! Like others mentioned, bringing your own paper is usually the way to go.
We actually bought a colorlaser for all our printing. While it was expensive ($250-$300), we should have enough toner to do all our printing, plus a nice printer to use after the fact. FI has wanted to buy our own since we got our placed a year and a half ago, so I let him buy it to do our STDs (which turned out great).
if it's black and white, a print shop would definitely be cheaper. for color invites and inserts, look at cardsandpocket.com's print shop -- they're great and much cheaper than staples/kinkos!
We used about a cartridge and a half of color and B&W ink printing invites, menus, table numbers, programs, and signage for 70 people. Our stuff was not especially text or design heavy. Maybe double that for your guest list as a rough estimate to price it out? We went the home print way mostly because I didn;t want to have to deal with converting anything to a printer's specification.
We invited about 150 guests and I printed invitations, maps, signange, and envelopes on my home printer and used about 2 ink cartridges. It's a little time consuming because I kept having to load paper but I was happy with how they turned out.
Thank you so much for all the input! It's great to hear about others' experiences, both positive and negative.
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I am gearing up to start designing and printing a lot of our paper products (menus, programs, invitation inserts, etc.) and I'm kind of stuck when it comes to choosing a printing method. I have a good ol' HP deskjet printer that I think could get the job done... I'm just worried about how much ink it would end up using (we have 200+ guests). I have no problem having them printed by someone else, like a Staples or Kinko's. I already have some paper purchased but could probably return it if it turns out to be unnecessary.
Any bees have any words of wisdom on this process?
Oh, for a point of reference, I think 90% of the printing will be B&W, but there will probably be some color pages as well.
Thanks!