Friday, September 30, 2016

Business Cards And Its Different Variations Of Printing

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 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 also be printed using a digital copier. A digital copier uses a toner combined to the card surface. But most of the printing firms nowadays are already using the newest technologies such as a high end digital press which is far different from the usual office copiers.

In Boca Raton FL, most offices there are facing problems when it comes to the printing of heavy weight of business cards stocks. A new digital press prints a heavy stock with up to 407 grams per square meter of its weight. It also prints materials which are substrate, especially those made out of polypropylene. The digital press may be bought in a sheet fed model or web fed model.

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 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.

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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