DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO · SACRAMENTO AREA
Business Cards
in Downtown Sacramento.
Capitol offices, conventions, courthouses and event weekends. Downtown work is deadline work, and the deadline is usually somebody else’s.
Where can I get business cards in Downtown Sacramento? Ace Printing & Same Day Signs, at 1835 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825 (about 6 miles from Downtown Sacramento), prints business cards at 500 for $58 and 1,000 for $78. Order by 10:00 AM Monday to Friday and most standard work is ready the same afternoon. Free proof before you pay. Call (916) 944-7195.
Downtown Sacramento sends business cards work through this shop steadily, which is what you’d expect from somewhere about 6 miles from a print floor that closes at 5 and starts the same-day queue at 10. Free proof before anything runs, and a free reprint if we get an approved proof wrong.
Who orders business cards in Downtown Sacramento.
The businesses ordering business cards in Downtown Sacramento cluster into a few recognizable groups. Events, venues and community organizations, churches, nonprofits and neighborhood groups, restaurants, cafes and food business chief among them.
Rally and press-conference signage shows up on short notice more often downtown than anywhere else in the county, and that is a 10 AM conversation, not a 3 PM one.
State agencies, law firms, lobbying shops, nonprofits, unions and associations all cluster in the same handful of blocks, and all of them periodically need something printed by a specific hour on a specific day.
Organizer and vendor cards printed fast for a specific event weekend.
Cards for staff, volunteers and board members, printed in small runs and reordered as people change.
Cards live by the register and inside takeout bags, which makes them a reminder rather than an introduction.
What it costs.
Posted: 500 for $58, 1,000 for $78. Printed here, not uploaded to a plant and shipped back.
At 1,000 for $78 the per-card cost is about a third less than at 500 for $58 (7.8 cents a card against 11.6), which is the argument for the larger run when the information is stable.
Every rate is on the posted price list, and larger runs price better per piece than the retail number, so call with your real quantity rather than multiplying. Want a figure right now? Run your size through the calculator.
How we make them.
Cards are still the cheapest per-piece marketing that exists, and they’re the item most likely to run out at the worst possible moment. Keeping your file with us turns the reorder into a phone call rather than a design project, which matters most for the businesses handing them out constantly.
Keep important text away from the very edge. Trimming is accurate but not perfect, and a phone number sitting a few millimeters from the edge is living dangerously.
Getting business cards from Downtown Sacramento.
About six miles from the shop: Capital City Freeway south, then into the grid on one of the numbered-street exits. Downtown parking is its own sport, which is exactly why so many downtown customers have us hold the order at the counter on Fulton and swing by on the way in. Front and rear parking, no garage ticket.
Standard cards ordered by 10:00 AM with print-ready art are usually ready the same afternoon. If the drive is the awkward part rather than the deadline, ask about delivery when you place the order. It’s available on many jobs, though for a genuinely same-day deadline collecting at the counter is still fastest.
Questions we get from Downtown Sacramento.
Can you match cards I already have?
Yes. Bring a sample and we reproduce it, or clean it up if you want it improved without looking like a different company. This is exactly how most reorders start when the original file is long gone.
Do you do thicker or specialty card stock?
Ask. Tell us what you’re after and we’ll tell you honestly what we make here versus what would be sourced in, and what that does to the timeline. The posted rate covers standard stock.
How far is the shop from Downtown Sacramento?
About 6 miles. We’re at 1835 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with parking in front and more in the rear.
Do Downtown Sacramento customers pay a different rate?
No. One posted price list for everyone. Banners $6 per square foot, coroplast $9, vinyl lettering $7, PVC $11, aluminum composite $13.50, 500 business cards $58, shirts from $15. Where you drive from doesn’t change the number.