Business Card Design and Printing

What is a Business Card?

A business card is one of the important publications of the brand design system, which stores your contact information whenever you meet customers. Besides, it also shows professionalism as well as the culture and class of your company. Therefore, impressive and outstanding business card design is extremely necessary. View more business card products here: Printing Shop.

Best paper material for printing high-quality business cards

• The most popular is 300gsm Standard coated paper (Couche Paper is widely used).
• Premium fine art paper (or Natural textured paper): Depending on the design of the business cards, you can choose textured paper with natural color or white color. We have a wide variety collection of many different and famous paper types in the world including but not limited to Conqueror paper, Stardream paper, So Silk, Monalisa, Plike, Natural Evolution, Dali, Modigliani, Contrast Laid, Boheme, Boheme Neve, Kiara, Klassica, Magno Satin, So Jeans, Elica, Eco Green, Natural, Modi Dore, Dali Dore, Koehler, EuroPremium, Registro, etc…
• Kraft paper (or recycled paper). There are two color types of Kraft paper including Brown Kraft and White Kraft paper. For business cards, brown kraft paper is a more popular option.

What are the different printing techniques for business cards

• Business card printing in standard colors.
• Business card printing with embossed Logo, text, or part of the pattern.
• Letterpress business cards (blind letterpress or letterpress on printed areas).
• Business cards with Metallic foil stamps on the logo, text, pattern, or embossed areas. We have different foil colours including Gold Foil, Silver Foil, Red Foil, Pink, Violet, Hologram Foil, Black Foil, and a lot more.
• Custom Shape Business Cards. Folded Business Cards.
• Raised Spot UV Business Cards.

A small suggestion to help you have a professional and impressive Business Card at a low cost is to use premium fine art paper (natural textured paper), Brown Kraft paper (environmentally friendly), recycled paper as business card material, and then print standard colors on the design using the digital printing technique. And then combine it with gold, and silver foil on the logo or text, artwork…

Important notes for a professional business card design

• Indispensable information on Business Cards: Full information of the employer including Logo, Name, Phone number, Email, Website, Address, Position, and Company,…
• Standard Business Card size: the most popular size for a Business Card is 9cm in width and 5.5cm in height. Sometimes people use the size of 9×5 cm instead to make the printed card a bit smaller. Business Card sizes are typically 54×90 mm (or 255×155 pixels) or 50×90 mm (255×140 pixels). Depending on the style you’d like to display on the cards you can create horizontally or vertically designed business cards.
• Colors and Fonts: The style of your business card design is in sync with the Brand Identity (Corporate Identity Package), and the colours should stick with the logo. Don’t use too many colours and many different font styles on your Business card design.
• Business cards should be designed with modern, unique and impressive designs.