Stand Out with High-Quality Plastic Business Cards
Why Choose Plastic Business Cards?
Looking for a business card or a durable membership card? Our custom-printed plastic cards offer a professional, long-lasting solution.
✔ Printed in full colour on white or transparent plastic.
✔ Available with single or double-sided printing.
✔ Luxury finishing options – Add gold or silver foiling for an elegant touch.
✔ Magnetic strip available on 760µ plastic cards.
✔ Rounded corners (3mm radius) to ensure durability and prevent wear and tear.
💡 Pro Tip: Plastic business cards can double as pocket calendars—a useful, long-lasting marketing tool your clients will appreciate all year round.
Preparing Artwork for Plastic Card Printing
For double-sided printed PVC cards with special finishes:
For single-sided printed PVC cards with foiling:
✅ Foil Artwork Guidelines:
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Use 100% black vector paths (no cyan, magenta, or yellow).
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Ensure at least 10pt font size for foiled text and 1pt line weight for foiled lines.
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Foiling has a ±0.5mm tolerance, so avoid fine details.
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Do not display foil elements on the CMYK design to prevent misalignment issues.
Final Print Specifications
📏 Card Size:86mm x 54mm (finished size) / 92mm x 60mm (with 3mm bleed).
🎨 Colour Mode: CMYK (PDF/X1a format preferred).
🔍 Resolution: 300dpi.
🔠 Fonts: Outline or embed.
⚠ Foiling must stay within the 3mm safe zone.
Frequently Asked Questions
White gives you a solid, opaque background that colours print onto cleanly, much like a standard card. Transparent lets light through, so parts of your design left unprinted stay see-through, which can look striking for a modern, minimal design but means colours won't appear as bold or solid as they would on white, since there's no white backing behind the ink.
570 micron is thinner and more flexible, noticeably thinner than a standard debit card, which suits a lighter, easier to carry card. 760 micron matches the thickness of a typical bank card, giving a sturdier, more substantial feel, and it's also the only option that supports a magnetic strip.
A magnetic strip needs a certain thickness of plastic to sit properly and hold up to being swiped, similar to a bank card, so it isn't offered on the thinner 570 micron option. If you need a card that can be swiped, like for access control or a loyalty system, 760 micron is the one to go with.
It's a small panel designed to be signed by hand, similar to the strip on the back of a payment card, which is useful if the card doubles as an ID or membership card that needs a signature for verification. If your card is purely for contact details and branding, you likely don't need one.
It means using the back of the card to print a small yearly or monthly calendar alongside your contact details, so it doubles as something worth keeping rather than being thrown away once the initial introduction is over. It's a simple way to add lasting usefulness to a card someone might otherwise only glance at once.
