Hey, east siders (of the greater Seattle area): Just a little reminder that I’ll be reading from The Anti 9-to-5 Guide and answering questions on career change, self-employment, flex time, the freelance life, and anything else you want to talk about this Thursday evening (as in, tonight). The scoop:
Thursday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Parkplace Books
348 Parkplace Center (at Third Street South)
Kirkland, WA
(425) 828-6546
If you can make it, don’t be shy. Belly up to the booksigning table and say hello.
March 28th, 2007
Beth writes: “You gave me one of the promo postcards you had printed up for the book. I was wondering who you had them printed by? I’ll be looking for a printer in the next couple of weeks and I don’t have a vendor yet…”
I am a huge fan of the infinitely cheap (without looking like it) VistaPrint. While I’ve never had them print postcards for me (the book postcards came from my publisher), they’ve done a great job on my business cards year after year. But here are a couple of other options, courtesy of Rachel Kramer Bussel, who recently researched the lowest postcard-printing rates for her own purposes and blogged about her findings:
And after doing some more research for other printing prices, Beth sent me another messaging letting me know, “FYI, the best [U.S.] vendor for regular 8.5 x 11 color copies I’ve found is National Color Copy in Florida. Even with shipping it ends up a lot cheaper than Kinko’s if you are printing in bulk.”
Thanks, Beth. Good to know. And I have to agree — Kinko’s is anything but cheap. For example, I wanted to print out my book manuscript to proofread it this summer and my printer was on the fritz. Kinko’s couldn’t give me anything better than a $1/page. At 250 pages, that was way too steep for this girl.
If you have a question you want the Cubicle Expat to answer, send it my way. Let me know if you want me to use your name and link to your site.
March 28th, 2007
