To celebrate this year’s holiday season, Ooprint has launched its first ever Holiday Greeting Card Design Competition!!!

This competition is open to everyone and will give our customers and the public a chance to contribute to our Holiday Greeting Card collection.  Participants will also compete for over $5000 in prizes!!

Please visit our competition site for full contest details, rules, and prize information.

Competition news & updates, deadline countdown, and winning results will be announced on our Ooprint blog, so please check back with us often!

Good luck!!

Note: UK customers please view the UK competition site

Move over Facebook and MySpace . . . introducing Ziki, the newest online social networking site! 

Ooprint and Ziki have teamed up to offer the Ziki card, a FREE business card dedicated to members of the Ziki network.

These card designs range from classic business cards to colorful blogger cards (featuring our famous customizable tag cloud).

If you aren’t already interested . . . these cards are FREE!! (shipping not included) And you still have the options of different paper choices, patterned backs, various fonts, text colors, and card carrying cases.

To sign up for your own Ziki account, visit www.ziki.com

Then check out our Ziki cards, and start networking!

Well, not yet.  But here at Ooprint, preparations are already underway for the 2007/2008 Holiday Season.

It’s never too early to start planning for the holidays. We have already launched many of this year’s greeting card models, and more designs are soon to come. 

Whether you are sending warm wishes to your family and friends, or New Year’s greetings from your company, you will find an excellent selection of Holiday Greeting Cards on ooprint.com. 

So, start shopping and send some holiday cheer!

YES.  No matter who you are, or what you do, you need a business card. 

Traditionally, business cards are used by businesses.  But that’s simply no longer the case.  In today’s ultra-connected world, the business card serves as an important social networking tool for anyone. 

With the popularity of websites such as YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, Ziki, Facebook and personal blogs, social networking has become a huge occupation.  These sites can be used not only for keeping up with friends, but for making new connections, showing off resumes and portfolios, contacting employers, attracting clients, and reaching out to business partners.  They are used by everyone from businessmen to stay-at-home moms to tech-savvy teenagers.  People now need a way to strengthen these connections outside the virtual world; business cards are now becoming a leading advertising and social tool. 

Staples’ President of Business Services, Rob Schlacter, confirmed this phenomenon in a recent press release, noting the popularity of “social cards.”  This modern calling card is now a means of personal advertising and connecting with new contacts.  People in the dating scene now give out their personal cards at night clubs and singles events.  Young students can advertise their MySpace pages.  Parents can pass around emergency contact information for their children.  There really is a card for everyone!

Ooprint is already ahead of the trend, offering a wide variety of business and social cards.  Professionals can upload their logo to our business cards, anyone can pass out their contact information with our classic calling cards or fun square cards, bloggers can promote their URL with our blogger cards, and advertisers can sell their products and services with our vertical cards.  So no matter what your purpose, you will find a business card that meets your needs on ooprint.com!

Only a month after the launch of our blogger cards, Ooprint is excited to announce that they are now FREE! 

You can now order your Business card 2.0 (blogger card with unique customizable tag cloud) at no cost (excluding tax and shipping).

This is a limited time offer, so be sure to take advantage now!

Check out our blogger cards here:

US bloggers

UK bloggers

As you may have noticed, Ooprint loves business cards.  And we’re not the only ones.  Professionals, students, advertisers, even bloggers use them to promote themselves, their businesses and their ideas.  But where and when did these wondrous cards come from??

Business cards as we know them today evolved from a fusion of trade cards and visiting cards. 

Trade cards became popular in 17^th century London, and were used as advertising and as maps, directing the public to merchant’s stores (no formal street address numbering system existed at the time). 

Visiting cards, or calling cards, date back to 15th century China but are more popularly recognized as a trait of proper etiquette of 17th century Europe. The footmen of visiting aristocrats would give a visiting card to the servants of the host to announce the guest’s arrival.  Visiting cards were often highly ornamental and boasted family coats of arms.

Today business cards are used by almost every company and professional.  Technology has evolved such that cards can be printed in color, and include photos or logos.  The business card design has changed as well; some business cards are so creative that they appear to be works of art.

Ooprint is proud to offer a wide variety of business card formats and designs.  From colorful square cards and flashy vertical promotional cards, to ornate calling cards and modern blogger cards . . . Ooprint is making business card history in the 21^st century.

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