5x7 Greeting Card Vs 6x8 Glossy Print?

Exactly. That is why my greeting card prices are higher.

A lot of people cannot afford my prints but can afford cards. I cannot afford prints of everyones work but I can afford cards. I leave my prices so people can afford something. If they love the work they will buy a print for the wall. Cards are really too small for that

So... is there any "archival" ink or paper quality difference at all between a 6x8 "fine art" glossy print, and a 5x7 greeting card?

I leave my card prices low. If they like my work, & that is all they can afford - so be it.

I was so displeased with my single card sample purchase that I removed them all. Some members love them, some don't There's certainly been much discussion of the cards.

Assumption is a dangerous game, my friend. ;-)

Edit to add -- Print descriptions mention acid-free papers, and archival inks. Card descriptions do not.

My cards on average are about $13 and that is cheap I think.

Mine are too cheap and i know it. i have only sold a few anyway. I doubt the paper is archival but they do look great. Before coming here I have had enough upgrades from card to large print that I do not worry about selling them cheap. If someone buys a box they are marketing for me.
If I thought I would sell more pricing high I would. I just wonder if those that put a mark up over say, 5 dollars, really sell any or even sell a larger size. I mostly sell over 20 inches so I don't even give much thought to the smaller sizes.

That is what I figure Wendy - the quality of a card can not compare to FAA's prints.

And as Bradford says - I consider them a business card.
I rarely sell singles - mostly box sets around the holidays.

My cards are not expensive and still much less than my smallest size print. They are very affordable if purchased by the box as I only raised the price on singles.

Yeah, that is the best idea Pam . It just concerns me that people do not see that there are box sets - until they click on the cards.
I personally am afraid I would lose box set sales - if the single appeared too high.

I would have thought it to be easy to sell cards, but no. Lol

they would buy a cheap card and not a pricey print. that's why my price is high for a single card. lower for the bulk amount. once you put an image behind glass, the paper type is kind of moot.

---Mike Savad

all i know is when i actually get a sale to my box, and it says order... i don't want to see a few dollar profit.

---Mike Savad

I found the cards to be somewhat dark the last time I ordered about a year ago.

Good answers here. I don't have a problem offering a low-budget option that will look fine behind glass and give the buyer who likes the image, some pleasure. The issue I'm having is that if my prices for an "art print" are significantly higher than the greeting card, there better be a good reason, ie. it's archival and of better quality.

I guess I'll need to just order a small print and a greeting card of the same image and compare. But, if there's an archival and quality difference like Wendy said... I'm fine with leaving them budget. If they're pretty close... might need to nix the greeting card option or change the pricing.

Thanks for the replies!

@skip - my observation of a greeting card and small print is the greeting card has a slightly darker hue, as Loretta mentioned, than the print causing some of the details to be lost. Yet without putting them side by side it would be difficult to distinguish the difference. Hope that helps.

I solved the problem by not offering 8" prints. The smallest prints I offer are 10".

I did exactly as James did a while ago. I've considered not offering the 10" ones, either. ;D

Good idea James, I have done the same to a few of mine now..

Greeting cards are printed on a digital press and they are nice but not the quality of the Epson inkjet prints. I had one printed and would agree with Loretta & Christy that they also print a little darker overall. Also the colors do not pop the same as an inkjet print even compared to my old Epson inkjet printer on matte paper. They also have a clear varnish or aqueous coating which does reflect light. Unless your customer ordered the same image as a print or greeting card he would not know the difference.

Good suggestions. I use a service for postcards from the road that I prepay for, then layout from the road and send. The cards look nice, but they are very glossy, coated, and I put a title/location on the front bottom. They would certainly look fine matted and framed, but they aren't the same as a good giclee print.

I cut out the smallest 8" size, and raised my single greeting card price some. Seems like a good solution. Thanks!

I don't sell enough cards or small prints to worry about this.....most people are purchasing way larger prints....

I've never sold a small (less than 11x14) image here, so I don't really consider those. The cards did concern me, as I know they sell pretty well.

I haven't sold many small prints, but I have sold a handful. They're are usually matted out about an extra 3inches or so and framed. So, it's a matter of balancing it out. When I do sell, it's most ofter much larger, so cutting out the smallest size is easy to do.

i sell both sizes. some people want a small image in a large frame and they can't do that with the card. i sell them in all the sizes. i don't sell them often, maybe 2-3 dozen? i know my last one was that size. it also makes you look cheaper when they show the starting price.

---Mike Savad

I have returned a greeting card, from another artist, because it was too dark. A few years ago cards were very nice, thicker card stock and glossy, but now they are thinner and duller. I have also had cards returned within 30 days, but I wasn't told the reason.

It's interesting/strange that when you remove prices from single cards they still show up with a price. In my case, with no price on single cards, it says 6.13 under the card, but when you open it, it shows only available in box sets. A customer would think they could get a card for 6.13. I tried both logged in and logged out and it's the same

IF - giant if - my images could be scaled to exactly 5 X 7 and not get chopped up - I would consider it - maybe. My photographs - they can have at it - I think I'm asking $8 for a single and $2.50 each for the box. The only cards I've ever sold - well - one this year - the wife's photo of 'dinosaurs', but before that - at Xmas a couple years back.

That's a good point Mike. I think that's why I originally added the small prints back in, ie. so that my "starting from.." price would be lower.