Print full colour business cards on 16pt coated card stock at Clubcard Vancouver. This stock is considered the traditional thickness for business cards.
The card stock is coated on both sides with a low sheen matte appearance. If you prefer cards with a high gloss shine select the UV gloss coating option.
*Pro Tip - UV gloss coating adds a level of protection and durability to your cards.
These business cards are printed in full colour on the offset press on a shared "club run" press sheet. Printing multiple jobs together on a club run offers excellent print quality at an affordable price, but may not be ideal for colour critical work as there will be a degree of colour fluctuation.
These cards have a standard 9 business day production time. Rush printing is not available on this shared press sheet option, so it is best suited for projects where you can plan ahead and want a professional coated business card at a great value.
These cards are printed at Clubcard USA with Free UPS Ground Shipping, or you can pick up your order at Clubcard Vancouver.
*For rush shipping, please ask us for a custom estimate.
**We cannot ship to PO boxes via UPS. Please ask us for a custom estimate for Canada Post shipping to PO boxes.
Choose 16pt coated business cards when you want a sturdy feel, crisp detail, and a polished finish for cards that will be handed out, included with orders, used at events, or shared with clients and customers.
Why choose 16pt coated business cards from Clubcard Vancouver?
Coated cards have a thin clay coating that can chip when trimmed. Cards with heavy ink coverage, especially dark colours that goes all the way to the edge, tend to really to show this chipping. We recommend silk laminated cards on cards with heavy coverage at the trim line.
The upside of club-run printing is the shared savings, the downside is that we adjust colour globally to get the best overall colour for shared jobs. This means the colour of club-run printed items will vary through the run and will not match exactly on re-prints. Our Indigo printing service is better suited to colour critical work.
Coated cards aren't ideal for writing on. If finished with a matte aqueous coating, sharpies may work if left to dry but ballpoint pens will smudge. If finished with a UV gloss coating, don't even think about it. If this is a big deal, check out our uncoated card stock options.
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.
Colour on cards finished with a UV gloss coating will appear slightly darker and richer than cards finished with an aqueous coating.
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 | |
| Square Card | 2" x 2" | 2.25" x 2.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Square Card | 2.5" x 2.5" | 2.75" x 2.75" | DOWNLOAD |
| Name Card | 3.5" x 1.5" | 3.75" x 1.75" | DOWNLOAD |
| Name Card | 3.5" x 1.75" | 3.75" x 2" | DOWNLOAD |
| Business Card | 3.5" x 2" | 3.75" x 2.25" | DOWNLOAD |
Offset Printed Using Stochastic Screens
(100 and 250 quantities are digitally printed)
16pt Coated Card Stock, 30% post-consumer waste (130lb)
Full Colour Both Sides (4/4) or Full Colour One Side (4/0), using soy-based inks
