Recycled Business Card Printing

On this page you can find out more about this recycled material and the finishing options available for Recycled Business Cards. You can work out a price for printing in full colour on Recycled Business Card Prices page.

Digital Embossing available on this product

Our Recycled Business Cards are printed on 350gsm 9lives 80 Silk – the "80" in the name means that 80% of the material is recycled. The remaining 20% is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Certified, TCF (totally chlorine free) virgin pulp; which, when blended with the recycled fibres, gives the sheet superb press performance.

As an option, they can be either gloss or matt laminated one side or both sides. The minimum quantity is 500.

Recycled 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:

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

Print Finishing (i.e. Creasing etc.)

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

Production times for printing Recycled Business Cards

If your Business Cards on Recycled 9lives board only require printing and trimming with no extra finishing such as creasing, the following choices of turnaround times are available.

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

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

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

Super Economy turnaround – your Recycled 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

  • 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 accessible via the top menu bar.