Friday, September 30, 2016

The Different Printing Variations Of Business Cards

By Helen Watson


Business cards are types of cards that hold certain information concerning the company or an individual. Typically, it contains the name of giver, the name of the company and its logo, and contact details such as email addresses, websites, addresses, and contact numbers. A business card before were written only in black texts on a white stock. There are a lot of design aspects and color aspects used now.

These are often made of card stocks. Card stocks are types of paper that is thicker and more durable than normal papers. There are some that are made of high quality but without have colored photographs are usually printed using spot colors. Most business cards Boca Raton usually are printed using spot colors. When logos are only created using one tint and it is applied to a type of different tint, the term for this is the two colored process. Since batch and digital printing are now popular, it maybe very cost effective when one prints it with full colors.

Cards with full colors are often printed in sheet fed presses and the most commonly used is the four color process which includes cyan, yellow, magenta, and black. These can also be coated with an offset UV printing or the UV glossy coat. This is often applied similar to an additional ink on sheet fed presses. This means that the UV coat can also be used as spot coating which also means that the areas may either be 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 Japanese people, they refer their business card as the meishi. The company name is located at the very top portion and it is printed as the largest. This is followed by the job title and name of individual. Other information like contact numbers and business addresses are also provided.

Most often, the written information is in Japanese characters on one side, and the other is in Latin characters. Other meishis have QR codes, formatting it as readable by the machine. Presenting ones meishi to other people is a ritual and a formal action in Western world.




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