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All You Need to Know About Printed Business Cards

One of the most powerful advertising and marketing media, Business Cards are indispensable for every businessmen or a company official. Business card printing services are popular because of business cards’ high utility and low cost. Business cards play a crucial role in marketing your business and making its presence felt amongst a wide audience.

Benefits of Business Cards Printing

The printing of business cards is highly useful because of the several benefits offered by them, such as:

Business cards are not very expensive and can even be printed in small numbers. An ideal option for small businesses to create awareness and market their products and services, business cards are cost effective as well.
Business cards can include a lot of information despite their small size. In addition to your contact information you can include some advertising material, or even offer a deal or a coupon or special schemes to your prospective and existing customers. However, one should be careful about not overcrowding the printed business card with irrelevant information.
They are highly useful because of their small size. Customers or associates find it easy to keep and track them when required. They can even be kept in one’s purse or special card holders that can easily fit into a pocket.
Business cards have a long life and can stay on forever unless the information mentioned on it changes.
They act as a symbol of your company and continue to remind the holder about you and your business.
They can be printed in color or black & white, depending on your preference
Business cards are also easy to design

Needless to say, business cards continue to play a crucial role in every business even today.

Business Cards Printing Services: Prerequisites

The quality and type of printing are very important to ensure that your business card not only catches the attention of the viewer but also manages to sustain their interest for a long time. Thus, printed business cards specialty items that should ensure that

The right information is provided in the right format
Information provided is not too much
Information is clearly legible and understandable
Printing is clear
The paper and ink used are of good quality
The business card is of standard size
It makes use of the right graphics and logos that are readable

Ensure that your printed business cards convey the right message while being attractive enough to hold people’s attention.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 3rd, 2011 at 8:26 pm and is filed under Business Cards. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

14 Responses to “All You Need to Know About Printed Business Cards”

Ruth E. Thaler-Carter says:

February 10, 2011 at 6:04 pm

Just wanted to say that I love the “Pantone” tags for your navigation links!

As for business cards, I think printers owe it to their customers to advise against glossy or coated paper/stock, because many people make notes when they accept cards and it’s hard to write on such surfaces.
- admin says:
  
  February 12, 2011 at 2:37 am
  
  I would agree completely, but I would go further.
  
  The same is true for other jobs you must write on, like business reply cards, forms, or even school posters with a knock-out area in which to hand write a teacher’s name or other school information.
  
  If the base paper substrate is not only a coated stock but also covered with a varnish or aqueous (or UV) coating, writing on it can be impossible. You can always knock out an area (i.e., not apply the varnish, aqueous, or UV coating to a particular area) if you will need to write in that spot.
  
  It is also wise to discuss this with your printer if you plan to inkjet an address on your job. The inkjet ink needs a flat, but not glossy, surface to which to adhere. Not all mailshops have the special equipment, chemistry, or skill to inkjet addresses directly on UV or aqueous coating. A special ink formulation is required if you need to inkjet addresses on aqueous coating, and both a special ink and a dryer are needed to inkjet addresses on UV coatings.
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  March 7, 2011 at 3:55 pm
  
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July 19, 2011 at 10:05 pm

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plastic card says:

August 20, 2011 at 9:03 am

Business card printing services are popular because of business cards’ high utility and making its presence felt amongst a wide audience.
- admin says:
  
  August 20, 2011 at 4:44 pm
  
  Agreed. Ultimately, business comes down to two people making contact, developing trust, and exchanging value of some sort. It is personal. And nothing is more personal than exchanging well designed business cards that say something about your service and your commitment to quality. In an electronic world, with the Internet as prevalent as it is, I think quality business cards are an increasingly valuable marketing asset.
Tim Sajt says:

October 14, 2011 at 12:42 pm

This is very useful information about printed business cards. Great work!

Thank you.
- admin says:
  
  October 14, 2011 at 7:27 pm
  
  Thank you. I think a well-designed business card conveys a world of information about your business. Like a website, it is one of your potential client’s first touch points with your company. Beyond everything else, a business card is an advertisement for your products and services.
Business card printing melbourne says:

July 24, 2013 at 4:19 am

Business cards are still useful for any business because they give a great exposure to a business. But a business card is only helpful when it is well designed and printed with a good material so it can catch the eyes of customers.
- admin says:
  
  July 24, 2013 at 5:41 am
  
  I totally agree. Thank you for commenting on the PIE Blog.