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The challenges and joys of printing holiday cards in MD

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024   

Americans purchase around 6.5 billion greeting cards each year, with around 20% of them bought for the holiday season.

Sarah Hitchcock Burzio, owner and chief creative officer of Hitchcock Paper, is a greeting card seller who prints her paper in Maryland. Her company is highlighted in the Alliance for American Manufacturing's Made in America Holiday Gift Guide. The guide serves as a resource for consumers looking to buy American-made products in their state.

Burzio said prices have gone up but customers see the value of American-milled, printed and designed greeting cards.

"The paper that's made here, there's a lot of attention to detail," Burzio explained. "It's quality paper. The way your pen writes on writing stationery and you go, 'Oh, that feels good.' That's the kind of thing we're looking for, and I really think you only get that with U.S. papers."

Berger Cookies in Baltimore also made this year's gift guide.

Burzio had never thought of herself as a manufacturer. She thought manufacturing meant big factories or steel machinery. Now she embraces the title and pointed out many local artists and graphic designers are manufacturing products for consumers. For those wanting to buy American-made cards this year, Burzio suggested purchasing products at local boutiques and shops, instead of big box chain stores.

"They're buying thousands of cards for their stores nationwide, so they have to get them produced overseas to make that profit work for them," Burzio observed. "You can go into a lot of boutique stationery companies right now and buy a greeting card for $4 to $6 and it was designed by someone in the U.S., printed by someone in the U.S. on U.S. paper."

A poll by the alliance found 60% of Americans this past year have made a conscious effort to buy American-made products.


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