Monday, October 3, 2016

The Varieties Of Printing Methods For Business Cards

By Helen Watson


Business card is a card type which holds certain information of an individual or company. Usually, the information includes the giver name, the logo and name of company, and as well as the contact information like contact numbers, addresses, websites, and email addresses. Other contact information may included such as social media addresses. Business cards before only are written in black text on white stocks, and now, different aspects of design and color are being used.

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.

These may be also printed with the use of digital copier. The digital copier will use a toner which is fused to a cards surface. But most printing firms today have been already using modern technologies like high end digital presses that is very different from usual copiers utilized in most 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.

A UV coat or an aqueous coat, another type of coating, are used to make the manufacturing of cards in a faster speed. Cards which are not dry may offset inks from one side to another side. A UV coating is highly glossy but may possibly leave fingerprints. Aqueous coatings are visible and will increase card life.

When designing, bleeds are being provided if the colors will extend outside from the edge of the product which is trimmed already. A bleed is a printing type that will go beyond the edges of sheets before trimming. These are given in order to ensure that papers are trimmed without 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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