Date Posted : June 15, 2024


This week we ran out of our business cards and ordered 10,000 copies. And while we were looking at the invoice from the printing company, an interesting idea came to our minds. We wanted to know how many copies we've been ordering over the years and we started digging our old records to find out. Our discovery has been fun and very satisfying!



Turns out, back in April 1999, we printed our very first business cards that looked like a dollar bill. Tacky, we know, but that's not the main fun fact we learned! Guess how many copies of it we printed back then? Only 10 copies! Yes, 10... oops... While we don't remember exactly why, it could have been that we were not sure if we would surive long enough to use all 10 cards! Well, we certainly did manage to use all 10 cards and a month later we ordered 100 copies of plain-looking cards.

And over the years, the number of cards we ordered increased and its design evolved too. Here is the complete list of our business cards printing history!

Year # of Cards

April 1999

10

May 1999

100

2000

200

2001

500

2002-2007

1,000/year

2008-2014

1,500/year

2015-2018

2,000/year

2019-2023

5,000/year

2024

10,000