Rack cards printed with soft touch lamination evoke a sense of luxury and the velvety sensory experience sought by premium brands. With over 30 years of printing experience, the team at Clubcard Vancouver brings decades of production expertise to ensure these 20pt thick laminated rack cards are printed perfectly for our most discerning clients.
4" x 9" and 4.25" x 11" size soft touch laminated rack cards are printed in Canada in full colour on a Hewlett Packard Indigo printing press, using the most advanced technology to achieve colour consistency and accuracy on reprints, multiple rack card orders, and brand colour matching. These large rack cards are thick and velvety soft, but still stiff and sturdy to hold up in display racks and repeated customer use.
Let us help make your rack cards a big deal, bringing luxury and elegance to the table.
Because of the additional step required, printed proofs do not include the soft touch lamination.
Like any lamination, soft touch lamination will dull or mute the colours when applied.
Soft touch will be more durable and protect the ink from rubbing off especially with heavy coverage.
The minimum recommended text size is 6pt. With any small text, if grey use a black ink only version; if black, use 100% K.
Anything thinner than a hairline stroke (0.25") - even at 100% K may look choppy when printed due to Indigo print resolution.
There is a screen to the Indigo print which customers should be aware of if they're comparing to traditional offset printing.
Don't use rich black on Indigo printing. 100% K will be just fine.
Soft Touch Lamination is different than our Silk Lamination, it feels very similar to a peach. If you are unsure, ask us for some free samples.
Coated cards aren't ideal for writing on. 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.
Depending on the colour value, you may experience colour variation in solid fills of blue colour. 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.
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 | |
| Rack Card | 4" x 9" | 4.25" x 9.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Mega Card | 4.25" x 11" | 4.5" x 11.25" | DOWNLOAD |
Digital-offset printing using Indigo liquid ink technology
18pt coated two sides cover with 1mil soft touch lamination both sides, 30% post-consumer waste (132lb)
Full Colour Both Sides (4/4) or Full Colour One Side (4/0), using HP ElectroInk
