Customer Reviews

Avery Two-Side Printable Clean Edge Business Cards for Inkjet Printers, White, Matte, Box of 1000 (8870)

5 star:		(84)
4 star:		(38)
3 star:		(13)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

I don't know what printers other people have, so be aware that I have an Epson Stylus Photo 785EPX. These cards work perfectly fine for me, I've never had a problem with alignment or anything like that.

The ink sets immediately, no smearing. The type is crisp like a laser printer. My colors turn out great.

Since this is a matte finish card, there isn't the professional glossy look, but that's what I wanted so I'm fine with that.

It's true these cards are not as thick as the super-professional ones like my husband got from his work, but then again they also paid a great deal more for their cards. For the cost of these, the thickness is fine.

The edges are clean cut. Personally, I can only barely tell there's perforations.

I felt like I got more than my money's worth for these cards. If I wanted a more professional look (like thicker cards, gloss), I'd naturally have to be willing to pay more.

Update (9/05): The newest cards I got were significantly thicker than the older ones I had. They're comparable to other business cards I've been receiving.

These are GREAT. You can bleed off all four sides to create gorgeous full color cards on your ink jet printer. The only trick with the Microsoft Word template is to make a text box (insert menu > text box) that is larger than the table cell for each card so your graphics print beyond every edge. Or - make your own template in a design layout program. Then when you snap them apart - no white gaps. The paper is thick and the edges are crisp and clean.

Boy, this card is thin (still thicker than a regular sheet of paper). Nowhere on the package is the gauge (thickness) and if I knew what I know now I probably would not have purchased this.

Printing and seperating the cards was very easy though.

I bought the Avery Ink Jet Textured (linen) clean edge business cards, and I'm more than pleased. I had no problems setting up the cards to print, and they printed just fine in my printer (a Lexmark x83). The images and text are aligned perfectly on each card, and it's true...there are NO perforations, so the cards look very professional. I give it five stars.

works great, can't really beat it with a stick.

i am looking for the glossy version, since i have a photo printer, and could do saturated blacks.

i'm very happy with it.

I have used these for a few years now and I really like how nice they break apart. No more of that perforated looking edge. These snap apart clean and are a nice weight paper.

The clean-edge part of this product is terrific....however, I can't seem to get it to align properly all the way down the sheet. The first 2 or 4 cards are perfectly aligned, but as the printer makes its way down the sheet the image starts to shift and is no longer printing completely on the card. It appears that this has occurred with other people as well. (I am using an HP 970Cse inkjet) I suppose I can pull out my old Lexmark and see if that will work. I'm not ready to give up - this really is a nice looking product - thick cards and clean edges. If you do want to try it, just make sure you are prepared for the fact that it might not work on your printer.

These cards are probably as good as they could be. That being said, they can be very annoying as well. On the good side, the card stock is fairly heavy, roughly the same as most medium/high quality business cards. They also snap apart well, for very clean and professional-looking edges. The downside is that you end up wasting about half of them due to difficulties getting them to print/align properly. There are templates available, but the one I downloaded for my Mac didn't work properly.

I thought this would be a good product after reading the reviews. However, the paper is thinner than most business cards which causes it to feel cheap and curl up on itself.

I thought I could deal with that until I tried printing, where I noticed the real problem. See, the Avery template for these business cards has the group of cards centered on the page. However, the actual paper with the business card cutouts has a few extra millimeters on one side than the other. This means that every time I tried printing, the cards were a little off-center (both horizontally and vertically). I adjusted the AI template to try to match the business card paper (the front side anyways; the back side would need the template to be moved in the opposite direction), but getting exact results is nearly impossible.

One final huge downside with these is the fact that, although there is clearly room on the paper for the cards to be spread out a little more, they are all right next to each other. That throws out your option to print with a bleed for colored backgrounds on your cards. Even if you get your template properly aligned, which is not an easy task, and try to print colored backgrounds without a bleed, there are always slight printer variation when it takes in a piece of paper from one piece to the next, so you will probably not be printing a completely colored background, and you will probably be ruining one or two other cards in the process.

The only reason this is worth the one star is because, in theory, I can still get three full bleed or ten white-background cards per sheet, however low quality they are. It will perhaps give me something to practice on before submitting my cards to a professional printing service (which would probably have cost less than buying the paper here on Amazon the first place).

In retrospect, I probably should have gotten the Avery 8373 as it appears those do have a boarder for bleeds, but I'm not going to waste my money on that now considering that the paper quality could sill be low and off-center.

My complaint to Avery and still is that the Clean Edge Business Cards printed on my hp 940c do not print on the cards correctly. The printing off template gets worse the further down the sheet the print is. I told them it was a printer feed issue. They told me it was a software problem and to call tech support at my expense. I went on line and emailed product, customer service, and tech support. A week later, I repeated the emails. Finally, tech support sent an email saying to reinstall factory drives; if that does not work, install window drivers; if that does not work, go online and check for driver updates. Then they admitted that they have complaints about the Clean Edge Cards not printing correctly due to slipping in the printer! Avery Customer Service should have known of the problem with the Clean Edge Cards slipping as they go through some printers. Note that Avery did send me another pack of Clean Edge Cards (product satisfaction guarantee is for same product replacement), although I am not sure what I am to do with them since they slip going through my printer.