High quality antique Letterpress Business Card (PMS ink) traditional raised printing method & Standard Business Card (CYMK ink) modern printing technology both type business card printing services under one roof. Shivani Enterprises create a bridge between business card & the business card lovers for brand building perspective. Here you can calculate online letterpress business card price.”
“Embossing and Debossing is a 2 faces of a single coin” but two different technology used for contemporary look one for impress and another for depress impact.
Letter pressed business card is a very complex printing process, term letterpress involves, text/image/logo is pressed into the paper sheet surface to produce a 3d shape above paper stock surface using mechanical high pressure. That produce a tactile feel & touch that keep your brand name out of competitors. An embossed finish business card speaks silently with confidence.
Letterpress business card visually could be inked (PMS), pigment foil or blind debossed (recessed, image is pushed down below paper surface) or embossed (raised up design out of paper/text without ink and foil), you can choose the best suitable to your brand name.
In this digital age (modern printing technology), laser printing application facilitate same day business card printing services, where letterpress printing (old process) takes more than 1 week, majority of customer do not know the letter press printing technology and it’s process, they relate to the modern printing process (digital printing) in terms of production time and cost perspective.
Proverb says “Old is Gold” is fit here perfectly. Letterpress and block printing (old printing process) is still live today in “Shivani Enterprises Printing Store in Delhi India” in this digital age.
Top Reason to Use Letterpress Business Card
Letter press printing was invented in the mid of fifteenth Centaury by Jarmon inventor Johanne Gutenberg. This process is time and labor consuming but end product result give extensive and give premium tactile feeling & keep you unique from the crowd as people’s perception enhance your brand that’s why still live over 500 years as a main communication sources till 20th Centaury. Due to distinct work and leave a long lasting memorable impact to the customer.
Letterpress Printing Technology
It’s a type of relief printing, in this process ink is applied on the raised letter then these letter pressed onto the paper stock.
Shivani Enterprises equipped with old (moveable type face) and modern letterpress printing machine. Its a one time only one color printing process. Additional color printing cost charges add extra and more turnaround to produce it.
Old Letterpress Printing
Old process have a limited choice of font style with old model (vintage) font typeface arranged by hand made of metal and wood block (raised/carved) etc. Its a really difficult and time taking process.
Modern Letterpress Printing
Modern letter press printing process allow any type font model, style, size etc. Any type of content (design, text, line artwork) direct digital file to photopolymer plate made for bulk print production.
Embossing Application Key Components
There is very thin gap between premium business card and basic business cards that need to execute smartly. We can separate letter press name card making process into 5 stages.
- Right Artwork Creation For Letterpress Business Card
- Negative/Positive Film
- Choose Perfect Metal For Die (Male & Female)
- Design Transfer Process From Negative to Metal Plate
- Right Paper Selection
- Letterpress Printing Application
Business Card Artwork Creation For Letterpress Business Card
First is first, intended design & artwork creation into the professional design software tools like Corel, and Indesign into the vector base format (line art). Following guidelines from design
- Usually, a thicker line artwork produce higher embossed result.
- Avoid line thickness under 1 pt. (highly recommended if possible)
- Content area to be embossed must be inside 4mm from the all sides.
If you are not a professional designer, our creative team will create an letterpress business card mockup following all design guide line to produce premium quality embossed business card and send approval to meet your requirement.
Negative/Positive Film
It’s a next step of prepress process of a letterpress business card after creation of a digital files, Using camera a negative of a design is created transparent text/image and unwanted area opaque. This process is under go exposing light on a sensitive material onto film and followed by developers (chemical).
Choose Perfect Metal For Die (Male & Female)
Personalized embossing die male/female for single time used of multi-time embossing purpose. Brass metal (heavy metal) made die for crisp letter embossed business card work for a long term used, where magnesium is pocket friendly and short term used.
Embossing Design Transfer From Negative to Metal Plate
There are 2 different process to produce metal block for business card embossing process
Old Process: With the help of negative the design is transferred on to the metal called block in the raised form for same design bulk production. The embossing (raised height) depends on the indepth etching.
Modern Technology: Latest technology (CNC engraving) of block making do not required negative film, it involve direct digital file using CNC machines to create a optimum quality die or block for transferring. In the process unwanted area removed and required area/design remain in raised from.
Right Paper Collection
For tactile feel & touch, right paper selection is a crucial task. Paper made of premium quality cotton fabric is the best for embossing/debossing perspective. We are collaborated with world wide paper collection company known sona paper.
Paper Thickness: The depth (debossed)/upside (embossed) design, depends on the paper thickness. At last thicker is better.
Paper Quality: Soft, uncoated and stretchable business card paper stock perform best result, where a sturdy and thin paper stock start breaking after accepting pressure from metal die. Your wrong paper selection can break your end result.
Letter Press Printing Application
In letterpress printing process, there are 3 main terms of pressed letter into paper, to make this happen needed experienced and skilled team to give pin pointed shape. Ultra luxury stationery like calling card, premium quality certificate, letterhead, greeting cards, leather folder, product packaging are the most commercial printing products.
- Inked emboss/deboss
- Foil emboss/deboss
- Blind emboss/deboss
Core Difference Between Embossed & De-bossed
Embossed Procedure: For creating an embossed (raised) intended result, keeping the male die bottom and female dye on the top of paper stock.
Debossed Procedure: Just opposite placement of die as well as for embossed procedure, i.e. male dye from the top and female die at the bottom placement and paper stock in middle position creates debossed (recessed result).
Inked Emboss/Deboss
To produce inked emboss/deboss, block accept oil based ink only onto the raised letter to make impression on business cards. Firstly designed is printed on the paper then embossed on the pin point registration mark.
Foil Emboss/Deboss
To create silver foil emboss business card/golden foil embossed card, between male & female block and needed a required foil color above thick paper stock facing pigment color to the paper to produce foil pressed letter. To transfer foil color on to the paper needed heat along with press machine.
Foil Film (pigment color carry a heatproof plastic carrier)
Blind Embossed
Pressure applied directly on to the thick paper stock to make blind embossed (color free technic) impression.
Final Cut & Finish Business Card (Trimming)
To produce curve edges, unique and accurate finished letterpress card needed wooden laser die for trimming and power press for finish cut.
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Inked Emboss vs Inked Emboss vs Letterpress Foil Business Card
Modern Letterpress & Old Letterpress Technique
Letter Business Card Finish
Print & Cut Letterpress Business Card
Do,s and Don’t
There is no hard and fast rules to get the best letter pressed business card, by following a standard guideline we can manufacture an attractive letterpress business card online.
- Larger font size,
- Thicker and bold letter style (easy to read)
- Avoid heavy content
- Minimal content is better
- Keep bleed area 4mm from all sides
- Avoid solid background color card
- Paper stock 300gsm and more
Top 10 Challenges of Letterpress Business Card
Letterpress business card involve multiple stage and layer of printing, each and every stage required a skilled, experienced, team to execute perfectly. As an embossing expert there are some guideline need to follow while placing embossed business cards online.
- Accurate Registration Mark (Alignment with Print)
- Wrong Paper Collection
- Letter Raising Height
- Matching Color To Your Bond
- Prevent From Paper Break
Conclusion
Old tradition printing method (letter pressed business card) falls our exclusive range of business cards, production involve multiple stages to give a 3 dimensional shape, average production turnaround 7-10 business day from design creation, negative/positive making block for embossing to final finish. Shivani Enterprises has a experienced, skilled and master in 3D design team. Here you can place embossed and debossed business card order hassle free.
Here are most common question and their answer concerned to the letter pressed business card.
How to print and cut letterpress business cards?
Letterpress business card get printed using traditional printing technology using metal block and and for trimming & and custom shape wooden die.
What is the standard price of letterpress Business Card?
Average price of a letter pressed business cost INR 25-25/- MOQ 200 pcs, which is slightly higher to the modern printing technology.
Why embossed card are expensive?
Embossed business card, required multiple printing application to produce a 3d visual and custom shape such as creating vector line artwork, making negative/positive, metal die (male/female), extensive amount of time and fund, that’s why embossed business card became expensive.
Where is the best place to get letter pressed business card in India?
Shivani Enterprises is the best best place to get printed embossed business card in India. Here you can place letterpress business card online and get deliver at your door step no needed to visit our physically printing store.
What will be the max height of my raised business card letters?
Usually, a raised latter on the business card height depends on the design/element, you are paper stock and quality of making metal die for etc. Ideally, 0.45 mm letter can be produced on the 700-800gsm paper stock (2ply).
Can we see real printed sample before placing order of letterpress business cards?
Letterpress visiting card printing process involve multiple stages one by one, so we can’t show a physical sample (your own design) but we can send a digital proof for approval how it will look like after final printing.
What are the drawback of embossing?
1. Embossed card printing per unit cost come very high.
2. Difficulty in readability of small font size comparatively digital printing.
3. Muliti-color print not possible
Which one is the best business card embossed or de-bossed ?
Embossed and de-bossed both application look premium finish it depends on the your personal choice in terms of your brand name presentation perspective.
