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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

4376.0. "How to get both sides of the business card printed?" by ACISS1::TSUCHIYAMA (Gary Tsuchiyama @CPO 447-2812) Wed Jan 24 1996 13:28

    Is there any way of having both sides of your business card printed
    with information.  This is especially useful for people doing
    international business or if you need to print additional info that
    won't fit on the front side of the card.
    
    I've seen this done on other Digital employee's cards (Wes Melling). 
    Does it require special approval?
    
    Can we request that the card forms not be cut?  I've found a printer
    that will print on the back side for less than $35/200 cards, but it
    can't be cut down to business card size.  Who do I need to talk to in
    Digital for this request?
    
    Thanks,
    gary
    
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4376.1Contact the identity groupSTOWOA::DUSSAULTWed Jan 24 1996 14:378
    Gary,
    
    	You need to contact Eileen Palmer - she is the
    	Brand and Identity Manager for Digital. She
    	is at DTN 244-6263 or AKOCOA:EPALMER
    
    	She knows the answers.
    	Gael
4376.2NPSS::GLASERSteve Glaser DTN 2267212 LKG1-2/E10 (G17)Wed Jan 24 1996 15:487
    I don't know how they did it, but some folks in our group got the back
    side printed in Japanese (they're in Japan or I'd ask).
    
    I don't think it was anything way out of the ordinary -- this is a very
    common practice for doing business with Japan.
    
    Steveg
4376.3Normal business practice in other partsLOCH::SOJDAWed Jan 24 1996 19:537
    Printing on both sides of a business card is not just common, it is
    the norm in Japan.  At least, everyone I've ever seen is done this way.
    
    It is also done in Europe.  I worked once with a U.S. customer that had
    a subsidiary in France.  All the French people had dual sided business
    cards - one in French and one in English.  I thought it unusual but
    they said it was common there.
4376.4TROOA::SOLEYFall down, go boomWed Jan 24 1996 21:272
    Dual sided business cards in French and English as used by Digital in
    Quebec, got a stack of them in my daytimer.
4376.5in Asia tooHGOVC::TERESARUIVOHong Kong, @HGOWed Jan 24 1996 21:512
    The same in all countries in Asia: one side English, the other the
    local language ( Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, etc.)
4376.6biz customsCSC32::D_RODRIGUEZMidnight Falcon ...Thu Jan 25 1996 00:4012
    
    In an international business class, we viewed a tape on international
    customs, dos and dont's, (i.e. never show the soul of you shoe to a
    middle-east person, shake hands with your right hand - never with your
    left [or was it the other way around?], the "ok" hand sign doesn't
    mean "ok" in Australia), etc.
    
    One concerned handing/receiving business cards.  Some countries had them
    printed on both sides and there was a proper 'method' to reading them. 
    Some countries, you actually give them their card back after reading
    them, otherwise, you offend them.  (Those cards are typically expensive 
    to make - perhaps guilded.)
4376.7WOTVAX::HILTONhttp://blyth.lzo.dec.comThu Jan 25 1996 05:102
    I just asked the people we use in the UK, they did it no probs, I have
    my Internet and X400 mail address on the back.
4376.8another chance to cut cost ?SPESHR::DEHEKThu Jan 25 1996 09:099
    and here is another costsaver:
    
    for folks who do not need the backside printed; team up with the
    person in the cube next door and share a business card....
    
    or for the non-VPs amongst us - adopt one (we're getting close to 1-1)
    and share one with them
    
    :^)
4376.9BIGQ::GARDNERjustme....jacquiThu Jan 25 1996 12:307

    give your old business cards to the BMC for field identification
    cards (they don't blow away from the specimens)!


    justme
4376.10There goes another CASE toolSML1DR::phhdial_port8.phh.dec.com::LuskThree monkeys, ten minutesThu Jan 25 1996 13:194
If there's stuff on both sides, then there's no room
for a customer to put the requirements for a proposed
system. We'd have to go to a bar and get a cocktail 
napkin, I suppose.