Designers, pick up your brushes/pens/mouses!  Only 10 days left to send in your submissions for the ooprint Holiday Card Competition!!

We're offering over $5000 in prizes.  Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your creations!

Send your designs to us before midnight on October 20th at competition2009@aventers.net.

For full competition details, visit the competition site.

Good luck!!

Designers, à vos brosses/stylos/souris !  Il ne vous reste que 10 jours pour envoyer vos propositions de carte de voeux pour le Concours 2009 !!

Plus de 5000 € de lots sont à gagner.  Ne ratez pas cette opportunité de montrer vos créations au monde !

Envoyez vos designs avant minuit le 20 octobre 2008 à concours2009@aventers.net

Pour toute information concernant le concours, visitez le site du concours.

Bonne chance !!

Environmentally friendly practices are at the heart of ooprint.  Our customers already know us as a green printer and have access to information about our printing and professional practices. 

We are now proud to inform you that ooprint uses FSC certified papers.  The Forest Stewardship Council certification ensures that paper comes from FSC label forests that are managed to meet the social, economic and ecological needs of our present and future generations.  FSC certification ensures:

• Prohibition of conversion of forests or any other natural habitat
• Prohibition of use of hazardous chemicals
• Respect of international workers rights
• Respect of Human Rights with particular attention to indigenous peoples
• Identification and appropriate management of areas that need special protection (cultural or sacred sites, habitat of endangered animals or plants)

So, when you buy ooprint products, you can be sure that you (and ooprint) are protecting the environment for generations to come.

'Tis the season!  ooprint is offering 20% off our collection of Holiday Greeting Cards until October 30th. 

There are over 90 models to choose from and personalize with your own text, photos, and logos.  So get a head start on your season's greetings and order your holiday cards now on ooprint.com. 

The new 2009 Holiday Greeting Cards are now on sale on ooprint.com!  Our designers have created a wonderful collection of greeting cards for the holiday season . . . over 90 models!

Don't hesitate to take a peek at (and admire!) the ooprint greeting cards.  You'll be able to get an idea of our clientele, and the artisitc quality of the designs offered on our sites . . . important information to consider when submitting your designs for our Competition!

Don't forget, you have until midnight on October 20, 2008 to send us your greeting card designs at competition2009@aventers.net. 

Les nouvelles cartes de voeux 2009  ooprint sont maintenant en vente sur ooprint.fr !  Nos graphistes ont créé une collection de superbes cartes de voeux . . . plus de 170 modèles !

N'hésitez pas à jeter un coup d'oeil sur nos cartes de voeux (et les admirer!).  Cela vous aidera à mieux comprendre qui est notre clientèle, et à apprécier le niveau artistique de designs que nous proposons sur notre site . . . des informations utiles pour gagner notre Concours !

N'oubliez pas, vous avez jusqu'à minuit le 20 octobre 2008 pour nous envoyer vos créations à concours2009@aventers.net

ooprint is very excited to announce our 2nd annual Holiday Card Design Competition!

Last year's competition was a huge success.  We received over 100 submissions from designers in 16 different countries.  This year, we're hoping to see even more wonderful holiday card creations from designers accross the globe!

The competition is open to everyone so please don't hesitate to send in your submissions.  You will compete for over $5000 in prizes from ooprint and our sponsors Spreadshirt & Typepad!!

For full competition details, rules and prize information see the competition website.

Competition news and updates, as well as the winning results, will be announced on our ooprint blog, so please check back with us often!

You can also become a part of the ooprint design competition community on facebook. 

You have until October 20, 2008 to send us your submissions, so start designing!

Best of luck to all participants!

Note: UK participants, please see the UK Competition site

C'est parti . . . la 2ème édition de notre Concours Carte de Voeux !!

La première édition a été un véritable succès : plus de 100 créations des designers de 16 pays différents.  Cette année, nous attendons encore plus de créations de cartes de voeux de designers du monde entier.

Tout le monde peut participer à ce concours, alors n'hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos designs.  Vous pouvez gagner plus de 5000 € ainsi que des cadeaux de ooprint et nos sponsors Spreadshirt et Typepad ! 

Pour tout information sur le concours, visitez le site concours.

Pour l'actualité du concours, rendez-vous sur notre blog.

Vous pouvez également nous retrouver sur Facebook.

Vous avez jusqu'au 20 octobre 2008 pour nous envoyer vos designs.  Commencez à créer vos cartes dès maintenant !

Bon courage à tous nos participants !

ooprint is persistently coming up with new ideas and designs for business cards, and this time we've hit on something BIG.  Business cards . . . for students!

Students are constantly busy meeting new friends, professors, prospective employers . . . you need a way to leave their contact information and a good impression!  Student business cards are ideal for connecting with other students, networking at job fairs, and promoting campus clubs and organizations.

We have designed business card models exclusively for certain universities, with school colors and institutional characteristics in mind.  Choose from classic cards to more trendy models.  Some cards include a tag cloud that you can personalize to express who you are and what you're involved in on your business card.  We've also added the option of uploading a photo or logo, so these cards appeal to your student organizations as well.

Best of all, you can order your business cards even on a student budget . . . 100 student business cards are FREE! (shipping not included)

ooprint student business cards are currently available to students of :

University of Alabama

Auburn University

University of California – Berkeley

Carnegie Mellon University

Clemson University

Columbia University

University of Connecticut

Cornell University

Drexel University

Duke University

Elon University

Emory University

University of Florida

Florida Atlantic University

Georgetown University

University of Georgia

Harvard University

University of Michigan

New York University

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Northwestern University

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

Princeton University

Stanford University

University of Texas

Vanderbilt University

University of Virginia

University of Wisconsin

Yale University

Interested in free student business cards for YOUR university?  Contact ooprint here.

Students, get in the back-to-school spirit and order your free student business cards now!

This summer, stay connected!  You're sure to make new contacts, even while on vacation.  So be sure you have a business card to hand out.

This week, you can take advantage of $3 off your business cards order!!

Summer has arrived!  Planning a much needed beach vacation?  Be sure to take lots of photos, and then upload them onto our postcards so that you can send a card home to your friends!  Staying at the office?  Use this calm business period to design promotional postcards to advertise your company!

This week, take advantage of the sale on postcards: 50% off!

This week, take advantage of our promotional offer on square business cards.  These trendy business cards are a great way to stand out!  Choose from over 100 models, upload your logo and images, personalize your text . . . and order 300 for the price of 200!!

ooprint loves to interact with our customers, particularly bloggers!  We have a shared passion, the Web, and a good relationship with the blogger community.  We strive to continually offer modern and interesting products such as blogger business cards, biz cards for facebook, and Ziki business cards.  In return, we are often invited to attend blogger events and conferences!

This week ooprint attented Mixblog, a friendly gathering for bloggers who want to meet and chat about new trends.  We enjoyed a lively crowd, good food, interesting conversation, and lots of blogger business card swapping . . . Mixblog was a great success!

ooprint was proud to sponsor the Mixblog event.  We hope everyone managed to take home a Mixblog flyer (printed by ooprint)!

Thank you to Ulrich, Lucie, Pierre and Vincent for organizing the event!

ooprint customers, you may have noticed a weekly gift in your email inbox.  That's right, every week ooprint offers a different promotion.  In order for everyone to take advantage of our special offers, we'll also be advertising the "weekly special" on the ooprint blog.  If you'd like to receive news from ooprint via email, please don't hesitate to contact us and we'll add you to the mailing list.

This week: Invitations!!  With summer just around the corner, it's time to start inviting your friends to BBQ's, picnics, and parties.  With ooprint's special offer, you can invite more and pay less!  Order 30 invitations for the price of 20!!

Spring is near and so is the famous "Wedding Season"!  It is a well-known fact that most weddings are held between Memorial Day weekend in May and September, with the peak of nuptials taking place in June.  Which means . . . now is the time to prepare!

ooprint is proud to showcase its beautiful new line of wedding collections!!  Our designers have worked to offer a line of wedding stationery that encompasses all tastes and styles of weddings.

We have also taken care to organize our site so that ordering is simple: each invitation model is linked to its matching products so that you may easily navigate and order.

Our wedding collections include:

Wedding Announcements

15 cm x 15 folded (4 pages)

Wedding Invitations

15 cm x 15 cm

one-sided or add a map on the back!

Postcards

Use as thank you notes

or Save-the-Date cards

Menus

Place cards

As always, you may personalize your text and upload photos and image to many of the models to create your own unique wedding stationery.

Order now, our wedding announcements are currently on promotion: 20% off

The ooprint designers have been hard at work developping our catalogue of products.  We are now proud to present our new collection of birth announcements!!

We have over 50 models for boys and girls, in various shapes and formats. 

Our birth announcements are unique: you can upload your baby’s photo onto our birth announcements for free!  No need to cut and paste your own photographs, simply upload a JPG or PDF of your bundle of joy directly onto your announcement card.

We are currently offering a promotion on birth announcements. . . 20% off all our models!

Take advantage now:

Birth Announcements for boys

Birth Announcements for girls

ooprint would like to again congratulate the winners of the 2008 Holiday Greeting Card Design Competition, and publish some biographical information about these talented designers!

Grand Prize Winner: Jennifer Gordon

Our Grand Prize winner hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Jennifer Gordon graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a degree in Graphic Design.  She manages both a design website, www.velvetelvis.com, and a graphics forum, www.swankwithoutthewank.com.  She also has a full time contract at Internet Broadcasting Systems.  Jennifer is fully proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Dream Weaver, xhtml, and css.  When she's not designing, she enjoys reading, cooking, Facebooking, and spending time with her daughter.

Jury Prize Winner: Gaël Rabarijaona

Our Jury Prize Winner comes all the way from Madagascar!  Gaël Rabarijaona has been passionate about the internet and multimedia from a very young age.  He obtained a degree in graphic design and began his first job as a web designer at the age of 18.  Two years later, he and a partner created e-solve, a company that provides technical website support, internet marketing, and design solutions.  At e-solve Gaël is responsible for the design and creation of various products: from website and interactive CD-ROMs to posters, flyers, and pamplets.  He continually researches and stays up-to-date on the evolution of multimedia and graphic art trends. 

Ooprint aimerait féliciter encore une fois les gagnants du Concours Ooprint Cartes de Voeux 2008, et publier un peu plus d'informations sure ces deux designers doués!

Premier Prix : Jennifer Gordon

La gagnante du Premier Prix vient de Minneapolis, aux Etats-Unis.  Jennifer Gordon a fait ses étedues en graphisme au Minneapolis College of Art and Design.  Elle anime un site web de design, www.velvetelvis.com, ainsi qu'un forum de graphisme, www.swankwithoutthewank.com.  Elle travaille aussi chez Internet Broadcasting Systems.  Jennifer maîtrise les logiciels Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Dreamweaver et elle travaille aussi avec le xhtml et css.  Elle se détend en lisant, cuisinant, jouant sur Facebook, et en passant du temps avec sa fille. 

Prix du Jury : Gaël Rabarijaona

Le gagnant du Prix du Jury, Gaël Rabarijaona, vient de Madagascar.  Gaël se passionne très tôt pour le monde multimédia.  Après avoir obtenu son bac il s'est tourné vers une formation de graphisme qui a aboutit du haut de ses 18 ans à son premier emploi en tant que webdesigner.  Deux ans après il a créé avec un ami la société e-solve.  Sa principale responsabilité au sein de l'entreprise est la création graphique de produits divers : sites Internet, supports de communication papier (affiches, flyers) et cd-roms interactifs.  Il reste également à l'écoute des nouvelles tendances et des nouveautés du monde du design.

The Ooprint Holiday Greeting Card Competition has come to a close.  We received many creative entries, picked some very talented finalists, printed lots of holiday greeting cards, and now we are proud to announce the winners . . .

Grand Prize: Jennifer Gordon

Jury Prize: Gaël Rabarijaona

The Grand Prize was selected by the Ooprint customers based on sales, and the Jury Prize was selected by the Ooprint team based on design merit.

Congratulations, Jennifer and Gaël!

More information about these talented designers is coming soon . . .

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the Ooprint Holiday Greeting Card Design Competition!  We hope you will take part again next year!

Le Concours Ooprint Cartes de Voeux 2008 est terminé.  Nous avons reçu beaucoup de designs créatifs, choisi des finalistes doués, imprimé beaucoup de cartes de voeux, et maintenant nous avons le plaisir de vous présenter les gagnants . . .

Premier Prix : Jennifer Gordon

Prix du Jury : Gaël Rabarijaona

Le gagnant du Premier Prix a été sélectionné par les clients ooprint en fonction des ventes.  Le gagnant du Prix du Jury a été sélectionné par l'équipe ooprint pour ses qualités artistiques.

Félicitations, Jennifer et Gaël !

Nous allons bientôt publier plus d'informations sur ces deux designers . . .

Merci encore à tous qui ont participé à notre Concours Cartes de Voeux 2008 !  A l'année prochaine !