Whether you are a small business, or even a small project or organization, it is a good investment to print envelopes that have your official logo and design. Envelopes printing can help you make your mails look more official and of course more appealing. In this guide we will show you how you can do envelopes printing cheaply and easily do it at home. There are just four main steps that you should do.

1. Determine your printer specifications – The first thing that you need to do is to check your home printer. See if it can accommodate the printing of an envelope. Most modern printers have this feature installed, and there are grooves and holes in the actual printing setup which should tell you exactly where to place your blank envelopes and set them for printing. Just look at your printer manual and search for this feature if it is available. If it is not then you may be in a bit of a difficulty, but it will still be possible to do it if you are resourceful enough.

2. Buy your envelope stock – Once you determine that you can indeed go for envelope printing at home, you have to buy some envelope stock. This basically involves going to the stationery store and picking the right envelope stock that you want. Of course you should look for an envelope that can fit your printer. Make sure as well that the paper stock itself for the envelope can “accept” printing inks from laser-jet or ink-jet printers. Overall though, look for a nice quality envelope paper that looks professional.

3. Use word processing software for envelopes: When your paper is ready, it is time to create your custom envelope design. You can use your typical word processing software for this. Simply look for the page options in your application and see if it supports envelope templates. Just look for the correct dimensions that match your chosen envelope and you should be all set to place in your envelope design.

4. Adding your envelope design: After setting the right envelope dimensions, simply add in the content that you want for your envelope. Place in your logo, images, taglines, address and other typical envelope cover content. Just make sure that you place these elements in a nice and appealing layout.

5. Print your envelopes: Once your design is ready, simple load up your blank envelopes in the printer, and start printing. If your printer and software are in sync, you should see your envelope printed wonderfully on the blank envelope. Just make adjustments if you can, especially if your printer is not well suited for envelopes.

Alternative: Online envelope printing

As an alternative though, if you don't have a good printer at home, you can still have your envelopes printed online. Just look for a good envelope printing service over the Internet. Usually these printing services have delivery options that will give you your custom prints at home after a day or two of printing. The process is quite simple and you can just upload your custom envelope design to them, pay using a credit card and then have those custom envelopes printed. In no time at all you'll have your custom envelopes ready for mailing.

So as you can see, there are many options that you have for envelope printing, and most can be done at the comfort of your own home. You can improve the look of your mails through these designs without even the hassle of going outdoors. Isn't that great?