OAK PARK · SACRAMENTO AREA
Business Cards
in Oak Park.
Sacramento’s oldest suburb, mid-comeback. New independent business, tight budgets, and signage that has to work the first time.
Where can I get business cards in Oak Park? Ace Printing & Same Day Signs, at 1835 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825 (about 7 miles from Oak Park), 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.
Most orders for business cards from Oak Park start the same way: somebody measures a space, realizes they need this sooner than they thought, and starts calling. That call is short here: the price is posted, the shop is about 7 miles away, and the person answering can see the queue.
What business cards get used for in Oak Park.
The businesses ordering business cards in Oak Park cluster into a few recognizable groups. Contractors and trades, retail and storefront business, restaurants, cafes and food business chief among them.
The Broadway and Stockton Boulevard corridors carry a lot of small independent business (food, barbershops and salons, trades, community organizations, churches) alongside the medical district anchored around the UC Davis Medical Center campus.
Oak Park has been Sacramento’s first suburb, then its most disinvested neighborhood, and now a mix of both stories at once.
Contractors hand out cards at every estimate, so they run out fastest and reorder most, usually with a license number that has to be right.
Owner and staff cards, plus loyalty and referral cards printed to match the storefront branding.
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.
Nothing is charged before you’ve approved a free proof, and if we get an approved proof wrong we reprint it free. Every rate is published, so the only surprise should be how quickly it’s ready.
The part worth knowing.
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 Oak Park.
Roughly seven miles from the counter, down the Capital City Freeway and across toward Broadway, Stockton Boulevard, or Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard depending on which end of the neighborhood you’re in. The Broadway end is the quickest run.
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 Oak Park.
500 or 1,000?
1,000 at $78 is dramatically better per card than 500 at $58, so order the larger run when the information is stable. Order 500 if a phone number, a title or a person is likely to change soon.
What file should I send?
A print-ready PDF at the finished size is ideal. AI, EPS, PSD and high-resolution PNG or JPG all work too, and the design desk deals with imperfect files every day. Keep important text away from the edge so trimming doesn’t clip it.
How far is the shop from Oak Park?
About 7 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.
What if I’m not sure exactly what I need?
Then describe the problem rather than the product. Where it’s going, how long it needs to last, and when you need it. That’s enough for us to tell you which material and size actually solves it, including when the cheaper option is the right answer.