Customer Reviews

Avery Glossy Photo Quality Business Cards for InkJet Printers

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The front of the card prints great, looks as good as professionaly printed cards. Only problem I had was that you can't print on the other side. It would be great to be able to put something on the other side, but the back is coated. Other than that I would highly recommend them, I used with my Epson 1280.

i really like these cards. the only ones I have found for the inkjet printer with edge-to-edge capability. i want to respond to the reviewer who said you can only print to one side. in fact, you can print to both sides. one side is matte and one is glossy. is started off using the glossy side but now prefer the matte.

I've been using the Avery Print to the Edge Ink Jet Business Cards 8373 product for years with great results. I think Amazon must be mixing up reviews for different Avery products here. With the 8373, you ***can*** print on both sides. The front sides are glossy photo quality, the back sides are regular ink jet paper quality. The cards are perforated, which means the edges are not perfectly clean. But you can overprint the cards, so that after you separate the cards, the printing goes right up to the edge. I had to play around with the exact placement of the cards on the page to get it right for my printer - I couldn't just use the template that Avery supplies. I think every printer must be different.

Pros

Print to the edge

Glossy color on front

Print on back

Cons

A little flimsier than professionally made cards

Must tweak page placement to get it right

Edges not perfectly clean (but close)

Have wasted almost an entire pack trying to print on my HP Deskjet 3520. HP said the roller isn't accurate in feeding due to the glossy side and there was not a fix yet. Other than to try and feed manually thru printer. Even tho I tweaked software in every program I used;they simply didn't work for me. Think I'll avoid the glossy stuff.

These print beautifully. They're a little expensive, but very professional looking. If your card has color graphics, these shine! If it doesn't, then you should rethink your design. Your business card is no place to economize, because often it's the only impression a future customer has of you. Stand out!

AVERY-DENNISON / Glossy photo quality ink jet business cards, 8 cards/sheet, 200 cards/box / AVE8373 / Sold as 1 Box / Mfr Part # 8373 \*/ Glossy photo quality ink jet business cards, 8 cards/sheet, 2

Very professional-looking cards from your own inkjet printer. If you get them set up right, you can have beautiful cards, but you can't assume they are going to be perfect without some "tweaking" to get everything lined up right. That's not the fault of the cards, of course.

Nice stuff.

Get the Description Right! Avery business cards 8373 are great and has only 8 cards per sheet and each card is separated from the others so they print without printing on the other cards, but Avery business cards 8879 has 10 cards per sheet and all the cards are connected to each other so you can not print to the edge without it printing on the others cards NOT GOOD.

To avoid any confusion, as another reviewer pointed out there seems to be some sort of a mix of different types of business cards and reviews. This review is for Avery Glossy Ink Jet Print to the Edge business cards 8373 template, 200 count.

I purchased these glossy cards because I started my own automotive detailing business and I am very specific about wanting a glossy business card due to the industry I am in. I might just be crazy but I feel it's nice to pass out a high gloss business card that could leave the impression that that's just what we do/who we are "return the gloss to your auto finish". Anyway, let me help you to have a better understanding of these cards.

Quality: 4 stars out of 5. I feel that much like any other print at home business card i've used that these could be just a little bit thicker/sturdier. However, the high quality vivid images that these cards allow for to be produced does well more than compensate for the thickness. They were no thinner than the 8869 Print to the edge clean edge avery business cards that I had used prior to these so I am sure it is just the industry standard. Imagine printing a photo on plain paper, what happens? The ink "bleeds" into the paper and literally dye's/fades into it. Now, print the same image on high quality photo paper and the end result is much more vivid, vibrant, and professional looking. These cards produce that effect.

Some tips... You CAN do double sided printing with these cards HOWEVER, only one side is glossy. So make sure you put your main business features on the glossy side, and maybe just a simple business name on the other, if you are doing double sided printing. Additionally, I HIGHLY recommend these glossy business cards if you are doing a variety of colors on your card and especially if you are doing a background color. My background color was black, they turned out literally 3 times as nice as they other cards that i used prior to this simply because as I mentioned the colors didn't bleed into the paper and blend together. Avery was nice to provide a "practice" sheet to you to make sure you know which way to feed the paper into your printer. Finally, be sure to set your printer settings to glossy paper and high quality to obtain the best prints. I made the mistake of getting a little giddy with these when I first got them and printed them standard quality/standard paper and the ink smudged rendering one page of cards useless.

Love these and highly recommend them to add a new level of professionalism to your business. Hope this helped!

Avery products, including this one, have the best separating edges. The cards have clean, cut edges, easy to tear off the main sheet, and the printing quality is excellent.

I was trying to order business card which I could print on both sides. When I searched on the "Avery 8859" several items showed up which led me to beleave that they were all 8859.

They were NOT!

So when I got my shipment and found that I had the wrong item I had to go through the process of returning it and then sourcing the Avery 8859 from somplace else.

Amazon was very misleading with the way the items where displayed.