Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:11:27 +0100
From: Owain 
 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.people.consumers.ebay uk.misc uk.d-i-y
Subject: Re: Need 50 slick-looking sheets of letterhead  [OT]

Jim wrote:
> I live in London.  Can you people here help me with getting a small 
> volume of preprinted stationery.  I want to get some A4 paper with 
> coloured letterhead so that some letters look very formal as if they 
> come from  a small to medium organisiation.  ...
> I need 50 "first" pages which would have a logo and various  
> preprinted items on the page and then 100 "second pages" which would 
> come from the same paper stock and which may or may not have 
> preprinted items.
> What is the cheapest or best way to get this?
> The letters are going to be sent to people who are used to receiving 
> such corespondence so letterheads produced by a doemstic laserjet 
> (with its slightly patchy shading of blocks of colour) is not going 
> to look right.
> The volumes I need seem a bit too low to trouble a commercial  
> printer for.

A commercial printer should do any volume, but the costs per ream will 
be prohibitive, especially for four- or six-colour work.

> Do you think I get the results I want by making a design on my own PC 
> and taking it to a pro copy shop that has something like colour laser 
> printing.  I have heard of Kinko but never used them.

Colour laser is (pretty much) colour laser.

Depending on exactly what you need on first and continuation pages, it 
might be possible (and a lot cheaper) to get pages colour printed with 
the logo, which will do for both first and continuation pages, then 
overprint the sender's address on the first pages using a template set 
up in the word processor. This technique is used by quite a lot of large 
organisations, councils etc.

Otherwise there are the generic printed papers from Papers Direct etc, 
that you overprint with your own address.

Owain