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Plastic Business Card Pricing

Plastic Business Card Printing [top]

Everyone has a paper business card. Stand out from the crowd with plastic business card printing in full digital color! The guidelines below will help you order unique and long lasting plastic business cards.

 

Paper and plastic business cards are similar in design, but design is where the similarities end. The plastic material and slightly different size of plastic business cards make them difficult to throw away and hard to burry in a stack of ordinary paper cards. Just like paper cards, plastic business cards can be digitally printed from edge to edge with full color graphics, logos, colored text. Even the backside can be custom printed. The features to plastic business card printing are pretty straight forward. If you need help with a design, just contact our team for graphic design help. If you already have a business card design, with some minor size adjustments, your current business card design should work great.

 

Plastic Business Card Printing - A Fresh Idea

Try the new ultra thin plastics to cut down on costs and create a cleaner looking plastic business card. To get the best value from these lighter materials, add high quality graphics like photos and logos or multiple color background designs with colored text floating on top to your design. Full color printing can be as economical as printing colored text on plain old colored plastic cards. Using thin white cards will cost slightly less than colored cards. So even though digital printing tends to cost slightly more than one color printing on plastic, printing on a white card in full color can be nearly the same price as one color pricing.

 

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Plastic Business Card Printing - Sizes [top]

Size is one of the elements that make plastic business card printing a "stand-out" from the crowd choice. Plastic business cards are sized slightly different form paper business cards. Each plastic business card is 3 3/8” x 2 1/8” 30 while paper cards are typically 3 1/2" x 2". The result? Your plastic business card is always slightly larger in one dimension than a paper card - letting your card - and you - stand out in a stack of paper cards.

 

Other plastic business card printing sizes are available. A new smaller standard size plastic card measures in at 1 1/6" x 2 7/8". This smaller card is growing in popularity since it cuts costs and can even double as a key chain or key fob. The smaller size, while unique, does tend to get lost in a stack of paper business cards - unlike the larger 3 3/8" x 2 1/8" cards. The small size restricts design and requires small "eye-squinting" sized text. Also available are custom shapes and sizes. Custom shapes and sizes offer a "that's unique" factor but do tend to be much more costly than the standard size.

 

Best bet? Go with the 3 3/8” x 2 1/8” plastic business printing size.

 

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Plastic Business Card Printing - Material [top]

The most economical plastic business card material is white 12 mil plastic. While the thicker 20 mil and 30 mil plastic will wear longer, most business cards are not handled so often that the additional cost of the thicker weights just don't stack up. The lighter weight 12 mil white plastic is readily available and will lower your printing costs. Custom materials are available, too. When considering a custom material, check with the My1Stop customer service team to get the scoop on the cost and turnaround time difference between custom and standard materials.

 

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Plastic Business Card Printing - Options [top]

Though not commonly used in plastic business card printing, hole punching, signature panels, barcodes and other options are available. Ask your My1Stop customer service team for details if your have unique plastic business card printing needs.

 

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