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Business Cards – Anyone tried this?
Okay, I’ve had a quote for a 1000 business cards but I want them foil blocked in silver with full colour print on top – best price is £400 +VAT. I can have full colour printed for £45 however I want the foil blocking, so I’m going to have a go myself and I was after a few comments about the process.
I’ve ordered a mirrored silver foil for my Edge so I’m going to run the design onto vinyl using the Edge, then use my laminator to apply the vinyl to 400gsm stock then gloss laminate and then guillotine.
Sounds good in principle, I may laser cut in future as I’m after a particular profile but I don’t want to run before I can walk.
Will it work???
Jason
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Jason, Are you doing the full print with the edge including the silver foil, then applying the vynil to card? and then laminating?
Sorry if I did not read your post right.
Peter
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yes jason it will work apart from the guillotine bit as you will not register the prints on to the card well enough, each sheet needs to be cut by hand.
tip have a sheet of glass spray with light photo mount to keep it all together whilst cuttingchris
yes peter a lot of work but could be profitable. time as long as doing a £300 van at a guess.
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My only concern is using the edge for small full colour prints, 4 passes plus mirror foil, it does depend a bit on the design though,
Anyway why not look at buying a hot foil press and blocking bought in cards, the presses are a pretty cheap second hand nowadays, and would do a better job than the edge, as you would get the embossed finish?
Peter
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Hi Peter, yes we are, basically printing from scratch, had thought about printing reg marks, then they could all be guillotined to size together for accuracy and then guillotined as a ‘pack’.
I’m keen to start using my Edge for more commercial work again and I’d like to show off its full potential with these cards.
My other thought was to print onto polycarb from spandex (I think its poly carb) and use these as cards but never having used this material before I wasn’t sure of its thickness.
Regards
Jason
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Yes we’ve also looked at these presses, they do seem good value. I am going to run spot colours on the card because I don’t want to mess about with CMYK as it sort of defeats the whole point of using the Edge.
Regards
Jason
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Jason, the edge is a no no for small full colour images, it just doesnt come near to dedicated business card printers,
Am a missing something?sorry cross over posts
Peter 😳
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Screen printed card using silver ink,
and guillotined into the correct sizes.
Thats got to be the quickest and cheapest way surely. -
I print my own cards on silver foil and laminate to 240gsm stock. Works very good, and cheap as dirt!! (All colours come out as metallic.)
I use a Roland SP 300
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I’ve just ordered some plastic to go through the Edge, will post some photos of the finished cards.
Cheers
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Wouldn’t it be easier to print directly on a mirror silver material?
We’ve got an old thermal transfer printer which we’ve used to do buisness cards in. Did a nice job for the local paper printers where they offset printed the cards and we did some gold mirror effect with the thermal printer (highlights in some gold nuggets). The end result was stunning, and it’s a cheap, easy way to get some extra zing in the cards.
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