We are asked on how we get business cards inexpensive and fast to our customers, and here is where we explain in detail how it works.
While overpaying for any product is never a good practice, that is why we love to shop around for providers of the same quality, same dimensions and all the same, but for cheaper prices. That is where CheapFASTprinting comes into action, we sale business cards printing products for the cheaper prices available worldwide, while still making them fast enough so you can get them even when in a rush!
For decades, we have been test-running many different printing machinery and print flows, ticking the process to the best and most efficient path of acts, that allow us to produce any product, the fastest its now possible by 2026. At the same time, these processes also allow us to cut off on unnecessary production costs, leveraging to the point that we find many savings and price cuts that translates to a cheaper final product price for the customer.
How we cut prices during production?
The short answer to this question is, that we have managed to save tons of time and money in business cards production by advanced volume order management and automatization while researching and testing all possible supply chain providers for top materials for the lower cost possible.
This has provided us with tremendous advantage over our competitors that mostly still relies on old providers, old production lines, and won’t be able to adapt to this new “cheap printing” trend that the world is needed now more than ever.
Businesses everywhere are struggling with high pricing for everything they purchase, and trying to survive to after pandemic effects while inflation also attacks us from all fronts. Having a helping hand in the marketing section by providing a low-cost solution for business card printing services, will always be a healthy find for any business.
It is important to state that quality has not been compromised within our production and product line, we are competing against the world top printers providers where quality is TOP, and we can’t offer anything less than perfection and top-quality for our print products if we want to stay competitive and grow with our customers.
If you want to feel sample prints done by us in the past, we have a free print sample kit that we can provide to you completely free of charge, delivered to your door, so you can test the quality of the print-out as well as the sturdiness and variety of our paper selection. Click here to order your free print sample today!
The secret Business Card Gang-RUN printing technique
Now we will get a bit more technical and precise on how we manage to cut pricing on our printing procedures… the trick is called Gang-RUN prints, that consist in the assemble of a very complex system, where we collect many different orders from our customers and pack the all together into a single print-line run, sharing all the setup time and costs to a fraction of what it would have been if we decide to run each order interdependently.
Yes, setting up and managing multiple orders to be printed together, is challenging, but the results as stunning when it comes to price and time cuts. Just for context, imagine we get a 500 business card order, and we have to run design setup, plates perforation, ink up the print machine, load paper for this particular project, run the printing, clean the print machinery, then cut the 500 cards, then pack and ship… it could take half-day to run through this entire process for the product to come out as high quality and perfect as you expect it. While, if we have a skilled team, dedicated only to gather orders with similar color setting and similar paper stock to be printed together, then instead of half a day, we can complete 20 or 30 orders within 1 day.
Why all print shops don’t use this gang run path?
To be able to run the famous and beneficial gang run printing, as the printer, you will need to have a high volume of orders pouring in daily! At least 50 to 100 business cards orders, so you can play around with the quantities, paper stock similarities and many other factors that needs to be met to run different orders within a single print run. Not many local businesses handle these many orders a day.
Being an online print company like CheapFASTprinting, allows us to collect orders from customers all around the globe and specially from USA customers, even collecting 1 order per USA State a day, will produce the minimum gap required to run the gang-run print without hiccups. This is very challenging for local print-shops that only relies on local customers.
Next-Gen Automation & AI Integration
By 2026, technology has moved far beyond simple mechanical presses. We have integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) into our pre-press workflow. In the past, human technicians had to manually check files for bleed issues, resolution errors, or color mismatches, a slow and costly process.
To get this done fast and efficiently, we have partner with several AI software companies that are providing us with tools that are making the path to convey orders together, much easier and faster than before. Remember, we don’t just pack up business cards orders together, we could also include postcards, bookmarks and many other products that uses the same print color setting along with the same paper stock for printing. The AI software’s studies the size, color, if single or double sided, paper, quantities, and many other factors before deciding which orders should print together. Then it throws up a recommendation and we study that, if we consider that was the best solution we go ahead with it. This AI help saves us hours of graphic designer team effort reducing the labor time up to 80% without sacrificing any step or quality check in the process.
Today, our automated systems instantly analyze your design files the moment they are uploaded. This “touchless” workflow eliminates human error and drastically reduces labor hours. Furthermore, our cutting and finishing floor utilizes robotic precision. High-speed cutters, guided by optical sensors, slice through gang-run sheets with microscopic accuracy in seconds. This speed doesn’t just mean you get your cards faster; it means our machinery is utilized more efficiently, lowering overhead costs significantly.
3. Bulk Material Purchasing Power
Because we process such a high volume of orders daily, we are not buying paper by the ream; we are buying it by the shipping container. We have negotiated tier-one contracts with the world’s leading paper mills and ink manufacturers.
- Paper Stock: We secure premium 14pt and 16pt stocks at a fraction of the market rate.
- Inks and Coatings: We purchase high-viscosity inks and UV coatings in massive bulk quantities.
These economies of scale allow us to use premium materials that smaller print shops would charge a premium for, but we offer them as our standard. We effectively cut out the middleman, bringing raw materials straight to our production floor.
4. Waste Reduction Strategies
Efficiency is also about what you don’t use. Traditional printing creates a significant amount of paper waste during the setup and calibration phase. Our modern digital and offset hybrid presses require minimal “make-ready” waste. We get up to color within a few sheets rather than a few hundred. Less waste means we aren’t throwing money into the recycling bin—savings that remain in your pocket.
The Bottom Line
Ultimately, our philosophy is simple: High efficiency equals low cost. We have stripped away every unnecessary second of downtime and every penny of wasted material. We don’t sell cheap business cards because they are low quality; we sell them cheaply because we have perfected the science of printing them.
When you order from CheapFASTprinting, you aren’t just paying for ink on paper. You are benefiting from a decade of optimization designed to deliver the professional image you deserve, at a speed and price point that keeps your business moving forward.