BUSINESS CARDS

Stand out in Melbourne with premium business cards printed fast and built to last. Quality stock, sharp colour and smart finish options for businesses that mean business.

Choose your stock, upload your file & complete your order!

Order and upload your business cards online. We have a great range including 350gsm-450gsm coated, uncoated, UV plus many more options.

You can create a PDF file from most programs now, and it’s easiest file for printers to use. When saving your PDF you can select to include crop marks and bleed, you can also ensure the resolution you want to save the file at. If you are designing a brochure, supply the PDF as separate pages, not spreads, this includes the front and back cover, and don’t try and impose your brochure, your printers will do that using their imposition software.

You can also run a preflight check in Adobe Acrobat, and you can set it up to check for various things, such as image resolution, bleeds, spot colours etc. This is really helpful to check that you haven’t missed anything.”

Fold and die-cutting guides

Make sure your template clearly shows where the fold or cutting guide is, use a separate colour for the guides that really contrasts against the artwork, leave this colour set as a spot colour and ensure the guide is set to ‘overprint’.

Foil blocking and spot UV

As with die cutting guides, define the artwork that you want to foil block or varnish in your PDF file as a separate colour, again left as a spot colour. If you prefer you can supply a separate PDF file with just the area you want foil blocking or Spot gloss UV

Transparencies and effects

If your file has unusual effects or transparencies, its far better to send flattened transparencies, just incase something goes wrong along the way. If you want to make sure it’s going to look as its supposed to it might be worthwhile sending your printer a flat JPEG of your artwork alongside your PDF or even sending then a printed hard copy that they can check against.

Bleed and crop marks

If your artwork runs to the edge of a page it will need a bleed. This means the artwork will bleed over the edge, usually printers ask for 3mm. When the artwork is printed, it’s printed on a larger oversized sheet then trimmed down to the right size. If you don’t allow for a bleed your artwork might end up not running to edge of the page and have a white gap. Include crop marks when you save your file, this will show the printers where your bleed is and where they should trim the document.

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