Yesterday was interesting.
In just one day, we received 22 business card orders — and almost all of them were premium cards.
- Spot UV.
- Foil stamping.
- Soft touch lamination.
- Special die-cut shapes.
- Extra thick paper.
- Some even wanted sandwich color layers.
Most of these customers were visiting China for meetings, exhibitions, or factory visits. Since they already do business here, they figured:
“Why not try finding a local Chinese printing company for our business cards?”
What surprised them wasn’t the quality.
It was the price.
Several clients literally stopped and asked us:
- “Wait… are you sure this quote includes everything we requested?”
- “Seriously?”
- “In Europe this would cost 5 to 7 times more.”
Honestly, for us, this is just normal work.
- We’re not secretly reducing materials.
- We’re not cutting corners.
- We’re not using “cheap version” production.
- We simply follow our normal production process and make the cards properly.
That’s it.
And to be honest, we don’t spend too much time thinking about whether the pricing sounds “too low” to overseas customers. Our job is simply to produce good work, on time, with stable quality.
But something happened afterward that actually gave me a new idea.
A few clients asked us:
When we go back home, can we have all of our company staff business cards printed through you and shipped internationally?
That question stayed in my head for the whole night.
Because what they really discovered wasn’t only lower pricing.
They saw the print quality.
They saw the production speed.
And maybe most importantly — communication felt easy.
- No awkward translation software.
- No copy-paste AI emails.
- No confusing back-and-forth.
- Just real communication by phone, email, or message.
(Yes, we actually speak English. Haha.)
And honestly, I think this says something important about international trade today.
Not every overseas order needs to be a giant container shipment.
Sometimes small, beautiful, well-made products — even something as simple as business cards — can become international business too.
Of course… the first step is somehow finding this article on the internet, haha.
Anyway, if you have ideas, questions, or just want to explore possibilities, feel free to contact me directly.
And yes, I mean me — not “our sales team.”
I’m Apollo.
I’m the owner of Call2Print.
And I’ll personally help you figure out whatever printing problem you’re trying to solve.