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 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.

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.

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 fast speed manufacturing of cards, UV coats and some other coating types like the aqueous coating are being used. A card that is not made dry may possibly offset an ink to the other side of it. UV coatings are highly glossy and would possibly fingerprint while an aqueous coating is visible but would help in increasing the life of a card.

During the designing, there are bleeds provided when colors extend towards the outside of edges after trimming the product. Bleed is one type of printing which goes beyond sheet edges before trimming. Bleeds are used for ensuring that when trimming the papers, there are no white edges left.

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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