CardLab – Business Cards Printing

Preparing your pixels for print.

Templates to help you match print specifications.

Designing your own? Let us know what program you are using to design with and we’ll email you a free sizing template.

This will ensure the sizing, spacing and colour profiles are correct for printing.

Please note: We do not use MS Publisher. Any ‘Publisher’ files must be supplied as PDFs, and if possible we will convert them to something useable.

File types.

All artwork files must be at least 300DPI resolution. Nothing less than 300DPI can go to print.

We accept the following file types:

.AFDESIGN (Affinity Designer)
.AFPHOTO (Affinity Photo)
.EPS (Illustrator)
.AI (Illustrator)
.PSD (Photoshop)
.PDF (High Quality setting only)
.JPG

Other files types may be possible, please discuss with us.

Size and file requirements.

If you want to supply your own artwork, it should comply with the following:

Colour profile: CMYK only. (No RGB, No Pantones)

Business Cards canvas size:  94 x 58mm
(Finished size = 90 x 54mm)
Business Cards must have a 2mm bleed on all sides – Left & Right, Top & Bottom. All text and borders must be kept at least 3mm inside the finished size.
To make this easier, please email us, tell us which program you design in, and we will email you a template to use.
This will help ensure the size, spacing and colour profiles comply with what is required.

All other files must have 2mm bleed on each side.

Finished Sizes.

BC   54 X 90 mm
DL   99 X 210 mm
A6   105 x 148 mm
A5   148.5 X 210 mm
A4   210 X 297 mm
A3   297 x 420 mm
A2   420 x 594 mm