If you’re look­ing for cheap busi­ness cards with high qual­ity print­ing, MOO Busi­ness Cards are hard to beat.

I’ve done busi­ness with Moo in the past and was pleased with the qual­ity. They’re priced like cheap busi­ness cards, but they have out­stand­ing qual­ity and design. I thought I had enough cards to last me for a while longer, but two things spurred me to cre­ate an order for some more cards.

1. I’ve done some IT audit con­sult­ing recently and clients tend to ask if I have a card. My pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness card wasn’t quite appropriate.
2. My puppy, Milo, thought the last stack of 50 Moo busi­ness cards looked like a delight­ful chewy treat, and pro­ceeded to impale them with his sharp, puppy teeth.

That’s when it seemed nat­ural to order two dif­fer­ent sets of Moo Busi­ness Cards, for pho­tog­ra­phy and for IT consulting.

Moo Busi­ness Cards

The first thing I noticed is that Moo has many more designs for busi­ness cards on it’s site than the last time I bought my cards. They have sam­ple designs seg­mented by dif­fer­ent indus­tries, or you can upload your own design. I split the dif­fer­ence by choos­ing one of the exist­ing designs, but upload­ing some of my own photos.

The design I chose was called Great Escapes, and it fea­tured some black & white pho­tos on the back of the card. How­ever, I sim­ply liked the sim­ple design for my infor­ma­tion on the other side. Here’s a sam­ple of what I ordered.

Busi­ness cards are a tac­tile thing. Peo­ple infer some­thing about you from the way your cards feel, as much as they do by how the cards look. Moo Busi­ness Cards are thicker than the aver­age card from your local printer, mak­ing the much firmer. When a poten­tial client holds a stack of busi­ness cards from ven­dors, the Moo Busi­ness Cards tend to stand out.

One of the nice things about hav­ing dif­fer­ent images on the back of your card is that you make pass­ing them out a bit of a game. It’s like play­ing with trad­ing cards. Ask your client which one he or she wants. It’s another way to make an impres­sion, so Moo cre­ated a card holder to help — the Show­case Busi­ness Card holder.

You just flip up the lid and then fan out your cards. There are three sec­tions which hold about five busi­ness cards each. It’s just another way to have a lit­tle fun when shar­ing your busi­ness infor­ma­tion and make a bit of an impact.

Moo Luxe Busi­ness Cards

For my IT con­sult­ing, I decided to forego using any of my own pho­tos and decided to choose one of the designs that Moo pro­vided. The Luxe cards are mag­nif­i­cent. They’re three times thicker than aver­age busi­ness cards and the paper has an out­stand­ing feel. It’s not like the typ­i­cal glossy card, but rather evokes an old world feel of a fine art paper.

As withe the Moo Busi­ness Cards, you can design your own Luxe Busi­ness Card or use one of the exist­ing designs from Moo. I ended up choos­ing a design called Card of Hearts, since it resem­bles a deck of play­ing cards. Not exactly what you’d expect for IT con­sult­ing, but that was part of the rea­son I chose it.

This design comes with eight dif­fer­ent images on the back and your con­tact infor­ma­tion has a nice dis­play on the oppo­site side.

The pack­ag­ing for the Luxe Busi­ness Cards lets you know right off the bat that you’re in for a lux­ury experience.

Your cards arrive in a sim­ple white box, wrapped in rib­bon. Mag­nets hold the front of the box down, allow­ing the cover to lift off grace­fully and reveal your cards inside. Lit­tle details like these are a pleas­ant part of the Luxe Busi­ness Card experience.

Other Types of Moo Cards

I’m quite pleased with the cards I ordered, but I’m also curi­ous about a few other types. The mini cards are much smaller, durable cards. There’s also a card avail­able with Near Field Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (NFC) embed­ded inside the card. Hold it near a smart phone that rec­og­nizes NFC and your card asks per­mis­sion to do some­thing — like down­load your con­tact infor­ma­tion or your port­fo­lio, play a song or video, etc. It’s an inter­est­ing con­cept, par­tic­u­larly for an IT con­sul­tant. I decided to go old world, though. Some­times a con­trast works as well as a demonstration.

If you’re inter­ested, you can request sam­ples from MOO Busi­ness Cards to check out the qual­ity before you order. I’m pretty sure you’ll appre­ci­ate them as much as I do.