Luxury Business Cards FAQs
Q. What’s the difference between luxury business cards and business cards?
A. The biggest difference is the thickness of the card. A standard business card would be around 300gsm - 350gsm but luxury business cards start at 540gsm and can reach a thickness of 1190gsm – that's 4 times thicker than a normal business card.
Q. Why should I have a luxury business card?
A. Having a business card is a key part in introducing yourself to new clients, jobs or people. Therefore, by having a luxury business card, you are displaying yourself as unforgettable, credible and professional.
Q. What are the benefits of luxury business cards?
A. Using our luxury business cards, you are able to stand out from the competition in your industry, showcase your professionalism and high-quality service while also presenting a great first impression of yourself or company.
Q. What card sizes do you offer for luxury business cards?
A. You can choose cards sized 85mm x 55mm, 90mm x 55mm or 90mm x 50mm. Cards can be printed portrait or landscape and one side or both sides.
Q. What is the most common size for luxury business cards?
A. 85 x 55mm is the standard size for business cards in the UK.
Q. What paper type do you offer luxury business cards?
A. We offer double thick silk, double thick uncoated, triple thick uncoated and quadruple thick uncoated.
Q. What paper options do you offer with luxury business cards?
A. Our luxury double thick silk premium business cards are printed on a luxurious 540gsm white silk, which is nearly double the thickness of a standard business card.
Our luxury double thick uncoated business cards are printed on a luxurious 540gsm 'lite' white uncoated board, double the thickness of a standard business card and a beautiful luxurious feel which you will love.
For those of you that really want to stand out from the crowd, take a look at our premium triple thick (810gsm – 865gsm) and quadruple thick (1080gsm – 1190gsm) uncoated premium business cards with a customisable visible partial coloured edge. These cards are ultra-thick and have to be held to truly appreciate the quality.
Q. What is a good weight for luxury business cards?
A. Here at TradeDigitalPrint.co.uk, we think 810gsm is the ideal weight for a luxury business card.
Q. How can I make my luxury business card stand out?
TradeDigitalPrint.co.uk offers a range of inserts in white, blue, black, red, orange, yellow, pink, pastel pink, purple, green, pastel green and turquoise. This is a great way to add a splash of colour and make your luxury business cards stand out.
Q. What is the most popular colour of inserts for luxury business cards?
A. There are 12 different customisable coloured core inserts available and this core is visible in the middle around the edge of the finished printed card. The most popular colour ordered from us is red.
Q. What finishes do you offer for luxury business cards?
A. To further enhance your cards, we apply matt lamination to both sides of your double thick silk cards. For double, triple and quadruple thick uncoated cards choose either matt or gloss lamination to finish them off.
Q. Should a luxury business card be printed as portrait or landscape?
A. Most of our customers order landscape luxury business cards, however, portrait ones work just as well! It’s really all down to what you would prefer.
Q. I’m struggling with the layout of my luxury business card. Do you have any templates that I could download?
A. Yes! Here at TradeDigitalPrint.co.uk, we provide templates in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and PDF formats.
Q. Do I need to apply bleed and crop marks on my luxury business card artwork?
A. Yes. Your artwork should have 3mm bleed and we recommend a 3mm safe area.
NOTE: Make sure that you extend your background colour into the bleed, otherwise you might end up with a thin white border.
Q. What size of font looks legible on business cards?
A. To ensure your text looks the best it can be, we ask that all text is kept to a minimum of 7pts to ensure that when it prints it looks legible.
Extra care should be taken when supplying a font which is very thin, as due to the digital printing technique each letter is made out of tiny dots, some of which may look very faded if there is not enough ink area within your text.
If supplying black text, ensure it is set to 100% black (0/0/0/100) to help ward off any registration issues and give a nice crisp result.
Q. What is the best resolution for business cards?
A. Here at TradeDigitalPrint.co.uk, we recommend that any images used on your business card have a resolution of 300dpi to ensure a quality print.
Q. Do I need to supply any fonts?
A. If you supply us with a Print-Ready PDF then the fonts should be embedded. We might need the fonts when supplying files in other formats.
Q. How soon can I get my luxury business card delivered?
A. If you order by 12 noon, we can dispatch your luxury business cards on the same-day!