Shine Bright with Metallic Foil Business Cards
Enhance your brand with stunning metallic foil business cards, fully customisable to your unique design. Whether you prefer a bold, eye-catching foil effect or subtle accents, these cards offer a premium finish that clients and customers will love to touch and admire. Available in five striking foil colours, including timeless gold and trendy copper, these cards add a premium touch without breaking the bank.
Premium Printing & Finishing Options
We print your designs on high-quality paper stock, ensuring a luxurious feel. Our foil is applied on top of a tactile matt soft-touch laminate, creating a sleek, sophisticated look that catches the light beautifully. Please note that foil is available on one side only.
Key Features:
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Choose between rectangle or square cards
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Option for rounded corners for a refined finish
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Matt soft-touch lamination on one or both sides
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Three premium paper stocks: 350gsm Recycled Silk, 350gsm Uncoated, or 400gsm Silk
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Five foil colours to choose from
Pro Tip: Opt for uncoated paper with single-sided lamination for a writable reverse side – perfect for jotting down notes or appointment reminders.
Important Design Tip: Keep fonts at a minimum of 10pt and line thickness at least 2pt to ensure the foil prints crisply and beautifully.
Artwork Guidelines for Foil Printing:
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If your design includes double-sided foil, supply artwork as a 4-page PDF:
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For single-sided designs, provide a 2-page PDF:
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Foil application tolerance: ±3mm – avoid small text (min 10pt) and thin lines (min 2pt) for best results
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3mm bleed required on all sides
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File format: CMYK PDF, preferably PDF/x1a format
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Outline or embed fonts before submission
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300dpi resolution for crisp, high-quality printing
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Vector foil graphics recommended for best results (bitmap images should be at least 300dpi)
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Avoid serif fonts as their thinner elements may not meet the 2pt foil requirement
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Ensure foil elements are at least 3mm from the trim edge to maintain precision
By following these guidelines, you’ll achieve the best quality metallic foil business cards, ensuring your brand makes a lasting impression.
Frequently Asked Questions
It's the combination of uncoated paper with lamination on just one side, leaving the back of the card as plain, unlaminated uncoated stock you can write on. It's handy if you want to jot a note, a discount code or a reminder on the back when you hand someone your card, rather than a fully laminated, non-writable surface on both sides.
Foil is always single-sided regardless of your lamination choice, so double-sided lamination just means both faces of the card get the matt soft-touch coating, with foil still appearing on the one side you've designed it for. Single-sided lamination pairs naturally with the writable reverse option, since the unlaminated side stays easy to write on.
Each side of the card that has any print or foil needs its own dedicated page in the file, so a double-sided design needs separate pages for the front artwork, the front foil layer, the back artwork and the back foil layer. It's a bit more involved than a single-sided card's 2-page setup, but it keeps each element clearly separated for production.
Yes, that's the main point of using them, the bleed, safe zone and any foil guide layers are already set up correctly, so you're working within the right boundaries from the start rather than measuring everything out yourself. It's worth starting from the template rather than a blank file if you're setting up foil artwork for the first time.
Yes, but keep in mind the foil still needs to stay at least 3mm from the trim edge, and a rounded corner cuts into that edge slightly differently than a square one. It's worth keeping any foil detail well clear of the corners themselves rather than right up against them, so nothing ends up trimmed away.
