If Tony Hawk Inc can print on our press why can't you? This card is a 16pt Silk Business Card with Spot UV and Red Foil Stamping. Sweet!

Frosted Plastic Business Card With Full Color Printing

Silk Finished Business Card With Two Rounded Corners Business Card

Full Color Foil Card With Full UV Coating Business Card

Full Color Foil With UV Coating Business Card

Metallics Unlimited With SPOT UV Coating Business Card

Metallics Unlimited With Matte Finish Business Card

Full Color Matte Finish Business Card

5.25 x 7.25 Full Bleed Envelopes

At Cat5ive Print we offer lots of cool products for you and your clients. Take a look at all the new materials we can print, foil stamp and emboss on! We only have quality products for quality clients. If you have any questions just call us and we'll help you set up your file or just talk some shop!

Let's have a look at an often overlooked printing treatment. Spot UV. Put it onto a nice matte finished business card and you've got an entire new layer of killer! It's a real subtle treatment but when done right can make your card so much nicer looking without breaking the bank. Fun to photograph too!

The photo speaks for itself so I'll just shut up now.

Ladies and gentlemen today I would like to talk to you about something that is important not only to me, but to you too. Design.

Cat5ive Print Full Colour Printing wants to help all you graphic designers get the best printing for your designs, whether we are the ones who designed or not. You'd be amazed at how many very very talented designers out there who have sent us some great stuff to have printed in various formats. What I want to talk about today is the foil stamp. When designing something you'd like to have foil stamped you have to remember that very fine detail isn't the best idea. You have to remember that a foil stamp is literally a stamp that is pressed into the card using a metal die. Any very fine detail in your design will be lost during this process and probably not look all that good. Unfortunate but true.

If you have a design you want to be foil stamped and it's a very involved design, I'd suggest that you try the full colour printing foil process instead. It's still foil, just done in a different way. The foil is printed onto the card in the shape of your design and then the inks are printed on top of everything so anything that doesn't have foil below it will just be normal printed ink and the foil will stand out quite nicely. Finish it off with a glossy UV coating and you're all set!

Another suggestion would be to check out the full color metallic ink printing. It's not as shiny and sparkly as the foil process but it's very very cool looking. It's a little more tasteful and reserved than the full color foil process if you ask me. You can have it done in full color or as just a spot color depending on your design needs. The metallic ink is only offered with a matte finish and on nice thick 14PT or 16PT stock.

Got a bad ass design? We know you do! BUT do you have a way to get it printed? Hmmmm not so sure now are you? Guess what. All you do now! All it takes is a quick phone call to 561.429.6131 or an email to info@luicedesign.net and you're hooked up.

Read through the blog here and you can see what we can do for you…and do it we will. We've got your hook up on flyers, post cards, UV1, UV2, SPOT UV, foil stamping, full color foil process, matte, 12, 14 and 16PT METAL, plastic and silk!!! Don't believe me? Check out the Cat5ive Print Full Color Printing web site and see for yourself, then call up and ask for Nikki and watch your awesome designs manifest themselves physically right in front of your eyes!!! Well not quite but you get the idea.

Today… fold over business cards.. What? Fold over business cards!

Say, for example, you run or work for a parent company that has several businesses under it and you want to advertise that. All the business names, or small scale logos just might not fit on a standard size business card. This is where the fold over business card comes in!
What you're looking at is basically TWO business cards in one. You can have information inside and out. FOUR SURFACES and it'll sit on your desk or counter like a little tent card. You can have some flashy, eye catching art work on the front panel to make people want to grab the card up, which is step one. Now it's in their hands on their own accord and they're going to look at it. They open it up, and BAM! They're hit with all kinds of good stuff. Logos, info, phone numbers and maybe a little bit of info about your company. Like I said, it's 2 business card's worth of information in one.

The best part is that you can get all kinds of special flashy treatments on these things. Spot UV, silver ink, METALLIC inks and one sided or full UV coating. YEAH! Metallic inks are really cool because it's just like printing with normal inks but they SPARKLE! It's not quite the same as the foil process but it's not all that different either. I personally like the foil better but the metallic inks are still really killer.

The fold over business card is a GREAT tool when you need slightly more than JUST a business card.

…That's right! EVERYWHERE!!!

Glossy business cards, matte business cards, spot UV business cards and 12, 14 and 16 point business cards. If you leave your house, you most likely are confronted with a business card at some point. I've seen business cards that weren't even for anything. ANYONE can get a business card, which is why it's important that YOURS sticks out.

The thickness of your card is a nice inexpensive way to be sure your card makes an impression. 12 PT business cards are a thick business card that most people know about and have. It's not too thick and not too thin. Kind of plain if you ask me.
14 PT is a little thicker and feels pretty good in the hand. It's got some beef to it like "hey this is a thick business card!".
Now 16 PT business cards… THEY are beefy. A 16 PT business card is a card that gets the job done, as far as being a thick business card goes. It's super thick and feels even better in the hand than a 14 PT card.

You can get most any of the special treatments on these cards. Foil process, foil stamping, spot UV coating, FULL UV coating, one sided UV coating, rounded corners, metallic inks and silk coating. You can combine some of these as well.
We here at Cat5ive Print came across a nice 14 PT business card with a silk coating and spot UV, all gathered around a desk, gawking at how nice it was. It was just some random example card and we were all floored by it.

When done tastefully, the combination of some treatments can create an absolutely beautiful card. Like I've said before, my favorite combination is a silk finish business card with foil stamping. It's elegant and simple, but says a lot. Don't limit yourself to just one treatment on your cards.
Remember, a first impression is the most important one.

Today's lesson in business cards is about… wait for it… SPOT UV!!!

While it's not the most shiny of the printing treatments, it's still incredibly awesome looking and serves its purpose very well. Say you're a photographer and you want your business card to include a couple of small photos on your card. Foil process won't be a good choice for that, really. It COULD be done, but it wouldn't really get the point across. What you want to do is spot UV. Basically what you end up with is a matte business card, with glossy spots on it. These glossy spots will draw people's attention to the photos, assuming we are still going with the photographer example.

Of course you don't have to go with that specific example. You can do the spot UV treatment on just the text, your name or a plain old spot UV design with no real picture or anything behind it. It's a little easier to get away with fun tricks with the spot UV coating than some of the other treatments like foil stamping.

You don't have to go with just the special SPOT UV on the cards either. You could always just go with a high gloss, full UV coat on the card, or UV on either the front or back. This comes in handy as the UV coating can't be written on with a normal pen. If you need to write on the back of your card, but still want the glossy finish, this is perfect for you, actually. You'll still have the full gloss front of the card with the ability to write appointments, etc. on the back. It's a multi-functional business card!!

It's hard to see in this photo, but the girl has the spot UV coating, and you'll notice it says "price: date: time" next to her. That part is un-coated and can be written on.