Tips For Home Printing
Wedding Invitations

Home printing wedding invitations is a great way to create unique invitations and save money! You can also create a really professional finish to your invitations, especially with the latest software for digital photography and colour printers.

It’s also easy to get it wrong, so these tips for home printing will help you get it right first time.

If you need some designs for home printing wedding invitations, then check out these free wedding invitation templates for use on your homemade invites.

Top tips for home printing wedding invitations

• Practice – always do a trial run on your chosen paper. Think about whether the paper looks good? Does the design look ok? Does the design work well on your chosen paper? Do you have good balance in your layout? Is it as you expected?
• Trim your trial run to your finished size (if you need to). This will check that the design fits as intended. It's best to get this right on your first print out before you start printing a further 50 or so invites!
• Print extras as part of the same batch – that way you’ll have spares for any mistakes. I’d recommend at least 10-15 extra print outs for practice cards and as reserves for any mistakes.
• You can also print direct on to pre-made blank cards. Check the weight of paper your printer will take – mine easily takes a 250gsm paper stock. But check your manufacturer's guidelines.
• Print out any practice cards on the 'draft' or 'fast' setting - it’ll save your ink. Then when you're happy, run the invites out at the highest quality.
• For illustrations, pictures or photos – print on the highest quality for the best result.
• Some papers, such as vellum don’t absorb the ink so it just sits on top of the paper until it is dry. This means that it’s susceptible to smudging. In this case, print out individual sheets and remove them from your printer tray. Dry the print outs flat as individual sheets – not on top of one another.
• Also, print out vellum on 'fast' or 'draft' quality - they'll dry much quicker.
• Don't use watercolours or soluble pencils to add colour to your invitations. Inkjet ink is water soluble, so it will run and smudge with contact with water.
• Use a copy shop if you have any large amounts of cutting or copying to do. A copy shop will also copy onto special papers. This is especially useful for inserts – so use a template, print out one at home and then let the copy shop copy and cut it to size.

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