A box of 250 business cards is $150. One hundred 8.5" × 11" flyers is $80. One hundred 6" × 9" postcards is $50. Those are BrandBoostPrints' published starting prices, printed here in Spokane, and they are the same numbers on our product pages — full colour, no setup fee bolted on at the end. Larger quantities cost less per piece, and the configurator on each product page quotes a real price for the quantity you actually want.
What business cards cost in Spokane
Business cards start at $150 for a box of 250, which is also the order minimum. That covers full-colour printing on card stock, trimmed to size and boxed. Printing both sides is standard practice and does not double the price — the sheet goes through with a second impression, not a second job.
The reason 250 cards costs what it does, and the reason 500 does not cost twice as much, is that most of the work happens before the press runs a single sheet: preflighting the file, checking bleed and trim, making a plate or ripping the file, mounting stock, and getting the colour right on the first sheets. That work is identical whether you print 250 cards or 2,500. Once the press is up and running, additional sheets cost paper and ink. So per-card cost falls steeply from 250 upward, and the biggest single saving available on a business card order is simply ordering the next quantity up. If you know you will reorder within the year, order it now. You can price the jump on the business card configurator.
What moves the price above $150 is stock and finish, not artwork. A heavier card, a soft-touch or matte laminate, spot gloss, rounded corners, painted edges — each of those is a separate pass or a separate operation with its own setup. A thick soft-touch card feels like it costs more because it does cost more to make.
What flyers and sell sheets cost
8.5" × 11" flyers start at $80 for 100, full colour. That is a single-page handout on flyer stock — a product sheet, a price list, an event notice, a one-page open-house handout.
8.5" × 11" is the cheapest flyer size for a straightforward reason: it is exactly half of a standard 11" × 17" press sheet and a clean fraction of the larger parent sheets, so almost nothing gets trimmed off and thrown away. Ask for an odd size — 8" × 10", say — and you pay for the paper you asked for plus the paper that ends up in the waste bin, because that trim is still stock you bought. If your design is flexible, stay on the standard size. You can price a run on the 8.5" × 11" flyer page.
Brochures are $80 for 100 at 8.5" × 11" as well, printed flat. Folding is quoted separately, because folding is a second machine and a second handling step. If your brochure only needs to sit in a rack, a flat sell sheet is the same price without that step.
What postcards cost, and why 6" × 9"
6" × 9" postcards start at $50 for 100. That is the workhorse mailer — a just-listed card, a service promo, an event invite.
6" × 9" earns its price two ways. It fits efficiently on the press sheet, so little stock is wasted, and it stays inside USPS letter-and-card dimensions that qualify for the cheaper postcard postage rates, which matters more than the printing on any mail drop of size. Go bigger and you are paying more per piece to print and more per piece to mail. Go to an unusual size and you can quietly land in a higher postage category without noticing until the mail house tells you.
On any mailed campaign, printing is usually the smaller half of the total. Postage and list costs are the other half, and postage does not get cheaper because you found a cheaper printer. Price the whole drop before you decide the piece is affordable. The 6" × 9" postcard configurator will price the print side for any quantity.
If you want responses you can count, business reply cards are $45 for 100 — a reply piece that makes it easy to respond and easy to track who did.
What actually changes the price on any of these jobs
Quantity moves the per-piece price more than anything else, because press setup is a fixed cost spread across the run. Doubling the quantity never doubles the price.
Size moves the price through the press sheet. A piece that tiles neatly onto the sheet with minimal trim costs less per piece than one that leaves a strip of waste on every sheet. This is why standard sizes are standard.
Stock and finish move the price through the material and through extra passes. Laminate, spot gloss, foil, and die cutting are each a separate operation with a separate setup, so they add more to a small run than to a large one.
Finishing — folding, scoring, perforating, drilling — is a machine pass after printing. A flat piece skips it entirely. Door hangers at $100 for 100 include a die cut, which is why they sit above a flat flyer of similar size.
What does not move the price much: how many colours are in your design, or whether the back is printed. Full-colour digital and offset presses lay down all four process colours in one pass regardless of whether your artwork uses one of them or all of them. Do not simplify a design to save money on ink; there is no saving there.
Where the big online printers genuinely beat us, and where they don't
The national gang-run sites will often beat a local shop on the unit price of a plain business card on their house stock. That is real and worth saying plainly. Their mechanism is volume: they take hundreds of customers' cards, gang them onto one enormous press sheet, and run that sheet on a fixed schedule. Your job pays for its share of a sheet whose setup is spread across everyone on it. Nobody local can match that on a bare-bones commodity card, and any printer who tells you otherwise is bluffing.
The trade is what gang running takes away. You cannot get a colour target hit for your brand because the press is balanced across every job on the sheet — which is also why the same card ordered twice, six months apart, can come back a slightly different shade of your blue. You cannot get non-standard stock without leaving the cheap path. You cannot hold a proof in your hand before the run. And you wait on the schedule plus the freight, with no one to call who can see your file.
What buying local in Spokane actually gets you
You can see the job before it runs. A hard proof on the actual stock, checked in person, catches the things a PDF on a screen never shows: a photo that reads darker on uncoated stock than it did on your monitor, type that is too fine to hold at 6pt, a bleed that was never built. Catching that before the run is the difference between a reprint and a delivery.
You can pick it up. No transit time and no freight cost, and if you are up against a date, the constraint is the press schedule rather than the press schedule plus a courier network. Tell us the date you need it in hand and we will tell you honestly whether it works before you pay — that answer depends on the job and what is already on the press, so ask rather than assume.
A reprint is a conversation, not a support ticket. If something comes back wrong, the person who ran it is here, your file is here, and the fix starts the same day you call. On a mail drop with a date attached, that is worth more than the unit price difference on a box of cards.
The honest summary: if you need 250 plain cards and price is the only thing you care about, an online gang-run site will probably be cheaper. If the piece has a deadline, a brand colour that has to match, a stock that has to feel like something, or a mailing behind it, local is where the money stops being the deciding factor.