When you have an important event on the horizon, one that you just can’t wait to share with your friends and family, you’ve got to do it right. It doesn’t matter what type of event it is – whether it’s a wedding, an anniversary, a graduation celebration, a baby shower, or anything else, you can’t expect people to show up unless you invite them! This makes choosing the right kind of invitation printing methods an incredibly important task if you want to send out the best and most elegant invitations.

There’s so much to figure out when it comes to invitations. You have to settle on whether you’re using a premade package or creating a unique design, figure out your wording, and then decide on a budget. It’s a lot and deciding on what invitation printing method you’re going to use is just part of this process. Let’s get started on what you need to know!

Invitation Printing at Home for the DIYer

There are, thankfully, not nearly as many invitation printing types and methods as there are types of invitation packages. This is a good thing – the sheer volume of different invitation designs, independent of custom ones that you can design from the ground up – is pretty much exhausting. A quick look through a local stationery store (or more likely an online marketplace) for premade packages will certainly prove that!

Of course, if you do choose one of those packages, you may be interested to know that many of them say you can do invitation printing in the comfort of your own home. These packages or kits come with design software and provide blank cardstock that you can run through a typical home or office printer. This do-it-yourself approach may be a popular option, especially if you’re looking to both save money and come up with a unique, custom invitation. But there are a few drawbacks to this approach.

Taking the Professional Approach

When it comes to invitation printing, most people on a budget do indeed go with the DIY option. The rationale behind this choice is that it’s more affordable by doing all the hard work yourself, but the truth is that invitation printing at home suffers from more than a few problems as a result, the least of which is the overall quality of the final product of your invitations.

This isn’t to say that you can’t create perfectly beautiful invitations at home. With enough time and effort your at-home invitation printing efforts can create some quite nice invitations. The problem is that not everyone has the time and energy to devote to learning how to design an invitation, lay it out in printer software, and then fine-tune the at-home printing process to ensure you get a high-quality product. In this case, taking the professional approach to invitation printing is a viable option.

Professional Printing: Value Versus Cost

Let’s deal with the elephant in the room when it comes to using a professional for invitation printing, shall we? There’s an expectation that beautifully designed, laid out, and printed invitations created by a professional print house cost an arm and a leg. This is, after all, why so many people go with DIY invitation printing at home. In many cases, it is true that a DIY or premade invitation package designed to be printed at home can save you money as you’re doing it yourself. However, you also need to understand that the value of professionally printed invitations is understandably much higher – and that this higher value means that the heightened cost works out in the end to a better invitation overall.

The truth is that relying on a full-service print house for design, layout, and invitation printing means you’re not personally spending time, energy, and other resources to teach yourself how to do the same at home. Additionally, when you factor in the costs associated with a DIY invitation printing job, such as purchasing extra cardstock and printer ink in the event you make mistakes, something that’s very likely to happen, the “extra cost” of professional printing turns out to be not so bad after all.

Choose Las Vegas Color Graphics For Your Invitation Printing Needs

Looking for the best print shop for your invitation printing? Turn to Las Vegas Color Graphics, the Las Vegas area’s premier custom print shop! We’ve been providing printing solutions for the Vegas community for more than 40 years, and we know what it takes to design, print, and ship the best-looking invitations at a competitive price. Contact us today!