My business cards have arrived and I am pretty happy with the outcome.
It was my first time using UV Cards, an online printer. I chose UV Cards because of their plethora of printing options like spot UV, foil, silk laminate, rounded corners and the list goes on. They also had the most affordable short-run rounded-corner business cards I could find. I really didn’t need 500 cards! I’ll redesign my brand before I’m even able to give out 100 of them.
I ordered my cards with the following specs:
- 2 x 3.5 in Dimension
- 16pt Paper Stock
- 1/8″ Rounded Corners
- Matte Finish/Dull Aqueous Coating (AQ)
The matte finish is very nice and smooth, very eggshell like. They even have a 1/4″ rounded corner option which is much more rounded compared to the 1/8″ which is more like a credit-card (pictured above).
I would have gotten fancier with more options, but it wasn’t in the budget for now. Maybe next time!
I’d highly recommend UV Cards as an online printer. Great experience all-around.
Love them! Very simple, and I love the texture on the blue side. Love the little flower thingies on the right. Nice job!
How did you know how the cards would look like in print when you were designing them?
Or was it just no-risk-no-fun tactic? :-)
Looks great anyway!
Thanks! Do you mean the rounded corners part? Or the colors?
I downloaded the UV Cards’ business card Illustrator template which contains all of the bleeding and cropping guidelines. I occasionally used a temporary clipping mask layer to preview how the card would appear with full bleed to the edges of the rounded corners.
As far as colors, UV Cards has some nice tips for CMYK blacks and blues in their FAQs. I also soft-proofed the colors by going to View > Proof Colors in the Illustrator menu.
They have a nice inspiration gallery on their site that helped me decide on the finish of the cards.
So there really isn’t a 100% sure-proof way to know how the cards will look, but I tried to take all the necessary steps to ensure I wouldn’t be shocked (in a bad way) upon their arrival.
Hi Rosa,
Your site is well organized & looking good. But i want to tell one thing that you put some link in text like “UV Cards” in upper paragraph. You don’t give to that link target “_blank” that is not good bcoz some people visit your site & click on that link they leave your site & surfing on other site.
u r Looking great :))
I think that is debatable given that users are more often than not clicking on their back button to surf. But thanks for your input! :)