![]() ![]() The design software is well organized and has some excellent features, including very customizable backgrounds and text. Unfortunately, all the designs are saddled with a corporate logo that you can only remove if you use the company's plugin for MacOS Photos (not the web interface). Mimeo offers the smallest selection of card designs, with just 44 templates, but you can create a card from scratch - which we had to do for our wedding announcement. However, the flimsy envelopes scored lowest of the pack. But contrast, sharpness, and overall color quality were at or near the top, as well. Accuracy of skin tones - across a broad range of subjects - was Mimeo's standout achievement. Mimeo's two cards roughly tied Shutterfly's offerings for quality and handily beat them on price. If you do get stuck, you can take advantage of Shutterfly's prompt, 24/7 chat support.īefore ordering, be sure to check out Shutterfly's shipping guidelines (opens in new tab) The interface is intuitive, with one glaring omission: There's no undo button, so you'll have to manually fix your mistakes. Nor can you remove the annoying Shutterfly branding on the back of all cards. But you cannot design a card from scratch. ![]() Shutterfly's design software provides over 700 card templates for occasions including Christmas (and Navidad), New Years, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Thanksgiving, Easter, Eid, Diwali, Birthday, Graduation, newborn baby, and weddings. While we matched the wedding cards as closely as possible in features, Shutterfly's was still the most expensive of the bunch, at $4.23 (with a "sale price" of $2.22). ![]() But Shutterfly's more-affordable wedding announcement (opens in new tab) card won for envelope quality and was second only to the holiday card for paper stock and text quality (and tied for contrast). This package won for overall quality, paper and text quality, color, and sharpness, but cost $5.90 apiece (for an order of 25, before discounts that brought it to $3.29). Our holiday card (opens in new tab) was a deluxe version with metal foil lettering, rounded corners (the pricier default option), and thick envelopes with graphics and a printed liner. Shutterfly's cards and envelops were our judges' favorites, but they come at a price. We saw a big difference in the quality of card types from Costco (though neither was a standout), but the company was consistent in having by far the lowest prices for both the cards and shipping.Īll cards saddled with Shutterfly branding that can't be removed Mixbook and Printique produce about average quality, but Printique does it cheaper (surprising, since Printique's photobooks are quite expensive, though also quite good). The other three services are a rung or two below the leaders. Mimeo triumphs in price, however, with some of the lowest per-card rates. Both offer powerful design software, but Mimeo's ordering process can be a bit cumbersome and confusing. While Shutterfly's assortment of card templates, collections, and supported occasions can be daunting, Mimeo's is the sparest of all the services we looked at. They were roughly tied for quality in the holiday greeting and wedding announcement cards we made, but they diverge in other ways. This year featured a tight battle between Mimeo and Shutterfly. Why you can trust Tom's Guide Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. ![]()
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