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Embossed Printed Business Cards

Embossed Printed Business Cards

Embossed printed business cards are extremely popular in the corporate world, the thermographic embossing adds that professional look which every businessman or woman is looking for.

Your embossed business cards can be printed in up to 4 spot colours, so plenty of scope to fulfil your corporate image, or they can be printed double sided having 2 spot colours on both sides.

Our standard material for the embossed business cards is a high quality 350-400gsm board, you don’t really want to print professional business cards on a lighter weight than that otherwise they feel flimsy. We have a choice of white, off white and cream boards, but if you were after an alternative, this is always do-able.

We can also create extra thick business cards, this means after the thermo embossing has been printed, two or three boards are mounted together making the business cards a heavy weight which can be up to 1200gsm.

Also another extra which shows off an embossed printed business card is to have it gilt edged, this can be in gold or silver, and having that foil edging is something a bit special that no-one is going to chuck in the bin without looking twice at.

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Business Card Design Tips

Business Card Design Tips

We do raised print business cards for hundreds of private individuals and professional services in a month, in the last week – we’ve produced thermo printed cards for a photographer, two law firms, an accountancy company, three designers, an architects practice, a group of dentists and one flying doctor! Our cards can be printed in any Pantone colour that you can think of, there’s 2,058 by the way – and on any any card thickness up to 400gsm. If you require more than two colours, we can print a third and fourth colour if the registration is not overly tight.

Business cards can also be printed in thermography in our Suffolk print factory on front and litho (flat printing) on reverse, alternatively you could have thermography on both sides. Thermo business cards are tactile, beautiful pieces of communication, therefore full colour photographs or all over solids will not work! They are suited for line work, and small solids, logos etc.

We are happy to take your artwork at Thermofast, we prefer to accept either QuarkXpress files, InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop – or you can obviously save as a PDF, we can normally sort it from there.

Tips for submitting artwork

  1. Make sure you’ve added in the ‘bleed’ in your design, filling this area with any background colours or images. Ensure all important parts of your design are kept within the safe area, inside these perameters.
  2. Where possible designs featuring graphics or text should be submitted as vector based PDFs. To keep your text in vector format, we recommend applications like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and more recent versions of Adobe Photoshop. Please note, saving text in JPEG format could result in ‘fuzzy’ edges.
  3. Make sure you pre-flight your PDFs using the ‘Adobe PDF/X-1a’ preset. This option can be found in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and more recent versions of Adobe Photoshop.
Thermography Business Cards

Best Business Card font?
It’s best to choose up to 2 fonts for your business card, one for the business name and other for the information details, see a rough guide to our fonts here. Always make sure that the information detail is in an easy to ready typeface, and isn’t too small, around 5-6 point is the smallest you want to go. Sans serif fonts will always look more modern, Ie Arial, Helvetica etc. Serif typefaces, Times, Garamond etc are also good for adding some gravitas to a card. The rule is there is no rule, but do remember to include wacky typefaces (if you use them) with your artwork.

Business Card Designs
Decide on the design of your business card by your profession, make them fit for purpose. If you’re a wacky design company obviously you can go with something more edgy and abstract, if you’re an accountant or lawyer, a minimalist design would suit more. If you have minimal design skills, do stick to your day job and let us do it for you, as a guide, if you find yourself searching the internet for clipart, we ought to design them for you 😉

Colour Guide
Decide on what type of colour scheme is most appropriate to the profession you are in. A colourful business card could reflect a graphic design function, whilst a minimalist colour scheme could more appropriately suit a legal firm. Choosing the right colour scheme by your profession will help with attracting the right clients.

Thermo Business Card Price Guide
Our thermography prices start at just £49 for 250 cards, colour from just £53, All stationery can be printed thermographically raised print, or flat printed if required. Take a look here for more information on ordering cards, or at our main site Thermofast

 

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Round Edged Business Cards

If you want a business card that really stands out amongst the crowd, then we have the product for you! Printed on our standard 330gsm or 400gsm board – our raised ink business cards are far superior quality than a plain business card, with the raised text you are getting a real quality product for both look and feel. Raised Ink business cards or Thermography, are just what you need, they give that little extra feel and quality when you hand out your business cards to your clients or friends.

We can print in up to 4 colours in thermography on the front and the reverse of your cards on a 330 or 400gsm board, will impress your clients or family when you hand them out, and all for not a lot more cost than a standard business card!  If you require a specific board we hold many types in stock, plain cotton board, textured Conqueror card, etc.

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Call us for for further details, business cards in single colour, printed in thermo start from as little as £49.00 for 250 cards, round cornering is extra, but not much, call us on 01787 880268 for a specific quote. No Artwork? No problem, we can do that too. Email us at sales@thermofast.co.uk

 

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Pantone & Warhol 2013 Calendars

Pantone 2013 warhol calendar

Had to share these images of two new 2013 Calendars from Design legends Pentagram – (the world’s largest independent design consultancy). Published by Abrams, both calendars come in wall and engagement editions that will brighten your workspace or home all year long. Pantone also famously forecasts an official “color” for this year—Emerald 17-5641 is the color of 2013—and the calendar similarly selects a color for each month, represented in the images as well as in playful taglines like “Tickled Pink” and “Mellow Yellow.” The grid of the wall calendar looks like a series of Pantone color chips, with the days of the month ranging through the shades of the featured color.

The Art of Andy Warhol calendar is one of Abrams’s most popular, and 2013 is the third year running Pentagram have designed the title. Authorised by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the calendar includes a mix of Pop artist’s unknown, rarely seen works with his more iconic images. This year’s edition centers on Warhol’s prints, with a focus on his more hedonistic, sensual subjects. The works have been chosen to thematically correspond with the months and their holidays: Skull appears with October, for instance; Pointsettias is December’s image.

Certainly beats our standard traditonal Thermofast Calendar; which normally has a plethora of skin tone shades in the form of partly dressed young ladies! If you’d like to see a thermo sample of the 2013 Pantone Colour of the Year, Emerald 17-5641, please email us with your address  at sales@thermofast.co.uk and we’ll get you some samples in the post. Our turn around for business cards can be a little as 2/3 days and cost from just £49.00 for 250 cards in single colour thermography.

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Trade Thermography Business Cards

Thermographic Business Cards

 

These cards are double-sided and because of our trade rates, we can offer them to you for considerably less than many high street printers charge for standard business cards! For more information on Thermo printing and raised print business cards please contact our sales team on Telephone 01787  880268 or email us at: sales@thermofast.co.uk

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Raised Thermographic Black Business Cards

We pride our self on the quality of our raised thermographic business cards which can be printed on most stocks in any pantone colour, give your business cards a raised look to impress.


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