Customer Reviews

Nova Development US Hallmark Premium Blank 4x8 Photo Cards

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

These are great Photo Cards. I bought it last year to make Christmas Cards and have used it since. It comes with a CD with templates to make photo cards for all different occasions and you can even add clip art onto it. I use this for all of our cards now and put pictures of the kids. I couldn't find them in Office Max anymore so I ordered them at Amazon. And they do work with my HP printer.

We got this to design and send some Christmas cards. The included software works pretty well and it was easy to design the cards. However, it was difficult to get it to print without a white border.
Also, this paper size wasn't compatible with our older HP Photo Printer, so we had to use our everyday printer (which printed these just fine).
By the time we got these printed up, it would have been significantly cheaper (when factoring in cost of paper and ink) and less time-consuming to just order them from an online service.

Pros:
Easy to design cards
Good quality paper

Cons:
Printer compatibility
Tough to format printer settings - it doesn't save the settings so you have to reset them every time
Can't save cards in an image format (.png, .jpg, etc..), they can only be saved in the proprietary Hallmark format

I bought these for the first time this past year to do my own photo greeting cards for Christmas and they work great. The quality of the photo paper is excellent and the colors came out vibrant and true. The only slight problem I had with them was getting the prints to come out in correct size, proportion and location on my cards. That's not the photo cards problem though...more of an issue with either my printer (HP PSC 2110) or my software I believe. I just had to experiment a little and found it was better to try printing on a piece of plain paper first before using the photo paper and wasting one. I have a HP computer and HP provides a large selection of templates to choose from for producing professional looking photo greeting cards at a fraction of the price.

Bought this so that I could create my own photo Christmas cards this year. Software is pretty basic with some usable templates. Photo paper is pretty good quality, not the best but does the job. I had some problems printing but finally got that solved by messing with the advanced printer settings for about an hr. Overall this is an easy way to create photo cards for all occasions. The template categories include: baby stuff, christmas, halloween, thanksgiving, envelope printing, etc. I did have some trouble finding paper of this size and didn't want to buy the whole software papackage again, so I just cut some glossy photopaper into sections and that did the trick. I would recommed as an inexpensive way to create photocards and scrapbook material all year long.

Easy to use! Hallmark provides the software. I had some Xmas cards printed professionally and I did some myself and the ones I did using the Hallmark Photo Cards and software looked just as good if not better than the professional ones! Love this product!

Glossy finish isn't the greatest quality, the ink soaks in and doesn't produce much of a sheen after drying. Software in included is pretty good, once you figure out the Art Studio you can make ANYTHING! Included templates are boring, but the options in the Art Studio are endless. I download free scrapbooking PNG files and use them in the Art Studio and make prints really unique. The envelopes that are included are a little nicer than other photo cards I've bought.

I like the quality of the Hallmark photo cards compared to the ones that are from drug stores or photo websites. These are heavy weight, not flimsy, and when I print the photo on the card, the image quality is excellent.

Product as advertised and delivered promptly. Would purchase again from retailer. USed product in HP Photosmart printer no problems.

Fast delivery of item. Excellent product! Usually can find every year in Office Depot, but they didn't have them this year so I ordered online and was able to get them quickly so that I could make my own Christmas cards in a timely manner.

No matter what I tried I could not get any of my printers to properly recognize these cards. I tried several HP, Epsom and Canon printers, read many blogs (many people experienced the same issues), called my work IT guy, all to no avail. Also, the software is terrible. Save time and money and have your local store make cards for you - that's what I had to do and it worked out great and was cheaper in the end. I'll end up trimming the cards to 4x6 so my dedicated photo printer will recognize them and this purchase won't be a complete loss.