Saturday, October 1, 2016

The Different Printing Variations Of Business Cards

By Helen Watson


A business card is a type of card that holds a certain information about an individual or a company. Typically, this includes the name of the giver, the company name with a logo, and some contact information such as the address, contact numbers, email address, and website. Other information like social media addresses may also be included. Before, business cards are only black text written on a white stock, but now, it already includes many aspects of colors and design.

These are usually made from a card stock, a type of paper which is thicker and is more durable than a normal paper. Some which are made in high quality and without having any colored photographs are often printed with spot colors. Many business cards Boca Raton are being printed with spot colors. If the logo is consists only of one color and it is used in a type with different color, this is called as a two color process. And because of digital and batch printing, it can be cost effective to print it in full colors.

Cards in full colors usually are printed using sheet fed presses and the most common four color process is being utilized that includes yellow, cyan, black, and magenta. These may be also coated using the offset UV printing or using the UV glossy coat. Most often, this is applied like adding an ink into sheet fed presses. It means that UV coats may be also used as a spot coating, and this also means that areas may be either coated or not.

Digital copiers are another devices to be used for printing. Digital copiers use toners that is combined to the surface of the card. Nowadays, most companies are making use of modernized technologies like the high end digital press that is not similar to common copiers used in offices.

There are many offices in Boca Raton FL who have a problem when printing heavy business cards stocks. The new digital press can print a stock with a 407 grams per square meter in weight. It can also print substrate materials such as made of polypropylene. Digital presses are available in both models of web fed and sheet fed.

For a faster speed of cards manufacturing, UV coats and other types of coating such as aqueous coating is being used. A card which is not dry will possibly leave an offset of ink on its other side during printing. UV coatings are made highly glossy but may fingerprint. While the aqueous coating can be visible, it will still help increase the card life.

When it is being designed, bleeds are given whenever the colors extend outside the edge of finished product already cut. Bleeds are printing types that go beyond edges of a sheet before it is trimmed. Bleeds are provided to ensure that a paper is cut without any white edges.

For the Japanese, they call their business card as meishi. The name of company is placed on the topmost part and it has the largest print. Next to the company is the job title and the name of an individual. Other information is also provided such as the business address and contact numbers.

Typically, information written on one side are Japanese characters and the other side are Latin characters. Some meishis contain QR codes to make it in a format which is machine readable. In the Western world, presentation of meishis to other persons became formal and ritual.




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