Printing and pricing

Printing options

Peppermint Press offers three different printing methods for your invitations:

1. You print it

Printing at home is the perfect option for the budget-conscious bride or for some quick children’s party invites. We are contanstly amazed at the printing results from current home desktop printers. Crisp, clear & professional quality- our little office test-printer cost only $140 and prints like a dream!

Make sure your printer can handle heavy weights of invitation card by doing some test printing. Our desktop printer is happy with 250gsm - 270gsm paper because the paper feeds from front to back. If your paper needs to do a loop-de-loop inside your machine, chances are heavy paper wont bend it’s way through there.

Alternatively your local print shop (for example: Kwik Kopy, Snap Printing, Worldwide Online Printing, etc) can do prints for you for as little as $1.00 per A4 sheet if you supply laser-friendly invitation card 250gsm - 270gsm in weight. Most of our invites are A6 in size and we supply them two-up on an A4 sheet in your PDF file so you’ll get two invites on each A4 sheet you have printed. Also ask your print shop about cutting all your invites with a guilottine. Saves you trimming the designs from the A4 sheets!

(note: Officeworks can also print for you but only on paper purchased in-store + no metallic/shimmer papers)

2. We print it

Don’t have time to fuss about with printing? Let us take care of it. Your invites will be digitally printed to the highest standards on your choice of card. Choose from high quality 'soft white' card, or shimmer card in various colours. Stock samples available on request.

3. Letterpress

Our most luxurious form of printing, letterpress is a traditional and time-honoured printing method which is popular for very special occasions. Pricing for letterpress can be found in the link below but if you have any further questions about this printing technique, please email via our contact page.

Pricelists - Weddings

Click below to view PDFs our current pricing:

Pricing (all other invites)

You print it:

Files are supplied as high-resolution print ready PDFs.
Invitations have all guest names individually typeset. 

Invitations - $30  ~ A6 size, 148x105mm supplied 2-up on A4

We print it:

Invitations - $2.80 each  ~ A6 size, 148x105mm. 

Paper Guide

We love pretty papers! If you are printing at home you can find lovely paper/card stocks at your local art store or Scrapbooking shop. Try Eckersleys if you have one nearby or search the internet for wedding paper suppliers if you are out of town.

Try approx 250gsm - 270gsm paper. A lightly textured stock (try Lexel 'Felt' in white or cream) will give your invite old world charm and shimmer papers (such as Stardream and Curious Metallics) give a special shine.

Make sure you do some test prints before you buy a whole packet of paper. Some shimmer papers work great on home printers but the ink may 'bleed' a little so your design will be less sharp. It's all about experimenting. Your printer may not print so well on one brand of paper but produce beautiful clear prints on another. Your local print shop uses laser printing technology which doesn't cause ink bleed if you are experiencing this problem at home.

Also test your textured papers. Your desktop printer ink will usually soak into the texture nicely, where some print shop laser printers wont be able to fill the deep textured areas so you will need to find a more subtly textured or smooth stock.

A wonderful idea is to wrap your invite in a sheath of vellum (semi-transparent) patterned paper and seal with a custom sticker or some pretty ribbon. Many of the designs at Peppermint Press come up a treat with some tiny adhesive rhinestones or pearls. Use your imagination to dress up your invite and make it your own!