Postcards printed on 100lb Linen cover stock bring a traditional look and feel to your message with a subtle, crosshatch woven texture that feels like cloth.
This classic matte, uncoated cover weight card stock is roughly 10 points thick, made with 30% recycled fibers and is a great light card stock for invitations, elegant marketing collateral and art cards.
Notes On Colour. 100lb Linen cover postcards are printed in full colour with orders of 100 or 250 cards printed on a digital press. Orders of 500 or more cards are printed on an offset press. If you order cards printed on both the digital and offset press there will be unavoidable colour hue differences.
Staff Tip! - Bundle your linen postcards with linen business cards, letterhead and envelopes and create a complete stationery set.
Design Mind Light ink coverage is recommended on this matte, textured stock. Floods of ink or heavy ink coverage will produce a sheen and highlight the crosshatch pattern of the stock.
It is common to see "frayed / rough edges" on uncoated stocks, especially with ink coverage that extends to the edge of the cards. When a stock is not coated the fibres can break loose when trimmed. Choosing a coated or laminated card will help avoid this issue.
Uncoated stocks produce subdued, muted colours that may appear dull compared to coated stocks with low lustre aqueous or high gloss UV coatings.
The fiber in uncoated cards may break when scored to fold, producing what appears to be cracks in the paper. If you don't like crack we suggest, you choose a coated stock instead.
CMYK Process colours in the grey range and de-saturated images can shift in colour throughout the print run and may cause the greys to appear either cooler or warmer. For a neutral grey, we recommend converting all grey values and de-saturated images to true greyscale consisting of K (black) only values.
Due to the nature of club-run printing, you may experience colour variation in solid fills of blue/ For great blue results, we recommend a 30% difference between your Cyan and Magenta levels to ensure a nice rich dark blue, rather than purple.
For the richest of deep dark blacks in print use 50/40/40/100 as the CMYK value. If printing small black text (or knocked out text) we recommend a k only black (0/0/0/100) to avoid misregistration issues.
Uncoated stocks are more grainy and fibrous than other stocks, so if you are looking for really sharp lines or micro text a coated stock will be up to that challenge.
Write up a storm! Unlike our coated options, these cards work perfect as stamp cards, appointment cards, or a business card that you can scrawl a note across the back. You've found a match.
Bleeds: all files must have a 1/8" bleed on each side
Live Area: keep all critical text and artwork 1/8" inside the trim
Colours: supply your files in CMYK colour (Pantone/RGB colours will be converted or rejected)
Resolution: 300 dpi minimum (400 dpi preferred)
Fonts: fonts must converted to curves/outlines (we do not accept fonts).
Transparencies: flatten all transparencies
Types Of Files We Accept: MAC & PC files from Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (EPS or AI), CorelDraw (CDR or EPS), Adobe Acrobat PDF, TIFF or JPEG.
| Trim Size | File Size | Template | |
| Postcard | 4.25" x 5.5" | 4.5" x 5.75" | UNAVAILABLE |
| Postcard | 6" x 4" | 6.25" x 4.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Postcard | 6" x 4.25" | 6.25" x 4.5" | DOWNLOAD |
| Square Card | 5" x 5" | 5.25" x 5.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Square Card | 6" x 6" | 6.25" x 6.25" | UNAVAILABLE |
| Postcard | 7" x 3.5" | 7.25" x 3.75" | DOWNLOAD |
| Fat Postcard | 7" x 5" | 7.25" x 5.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Postcard | 8.5" x 3.5" | 8.75" x 3.75" | DOWNLOAD |
| Postcard | 8.5" x 4" | 8.75" x 4.25" | UNAVAILABLE |
| Product Card | 5.5" x 8.5" | 5.75" x 8.75" | DOWNLOAD |
