Our Business Cards are printed on 400gsm matt art card (i.e. 400gsm triple coated silk art board). As an option, they can be either gloss or matt laminated one side or both sides. The minimum quantity is 250.

For a slightly cheaper product on 350gsm silk with a gloss or matt finish on one side, please see our Handout printing page, which has the same Credit Card and Double Credit Card sizes available, but with a minimum quantity of 500.

Business Card Sizes

Our standard sizes are:

• 55mm x 85mm (which is a normal business card size)
• 110mm x 85mm (double business card size)
• 55mm x 170mm (landscape double business card size)

Custom sizes and larger Business Cards:

If you require a larger size than the custom size box allows, please look at our Postcard Prices page. Our Postcards are printed to exactly the same specification as our Business Cards, but are bigger.

Print Finishing (i.e. Creasing etc.) of Business Cards

If you would like your Business Cards to be perforated, creased, round cornered and/or drilled, then please select the Finishing box under the Optional Extras heading and make your selection. The figures in the price table will automatically update to include the cost of the finishing.

Production times for printing Business Cards

If your Business Cards only require printing and trimming with no extra finishing such as creasing, the following choices of turnaround times are available.

Express turnaround – your Business Card printing order will be despatched in three working days.

Express Plus turnaround – your Business Card printing order will be despatched in two working days.

Economy turnaround – your Business Card printing order will be despatched in six working days.

Super Economy turnaround – your Business Card printing order will be despatched in twelve working days.

If you require extra finishing, the number of working days will increase by a day or two. The despatch time, including the time required for the extra finishing, will be shown in the Product Description.

For a day to be treated as the first working day, we require your printing order and payment along with print quality artwork before 10am. Alternatively, for an additional charge, you can delay the printing order, payment and print quality artwork cut-off time to 3.30pm.

Artwork and PDF requirements for Business Cards

• We operate a PDF workflow, so please supply your artwork as a Press Quality PDF. If you prefer, we can create a PDF for you, in which case we will email a proof to you for approval. There is an additional charge for this PDF creation service of £20 plus VAT.
• If any print reaches the edge of your finished job, please add 3mm bleed to all sides of your artwork
• We need a "quiet area" to ensure nothing important is too near to the edge of the finished item; so please leave a 5mm inner margin for anything other than backgrounds
• Supply files to us in CMYK, not RGB please
• Image resolution should be 300dpi or more
• Please embed fonts or convert all of your text to shapes

If you would like to download a PDF template you can do so from the Templates page which is also accessible via the top menu bar.