Advice on choosing a process for my business card

[garrison]

Where are you based kate? Tbh it probably doesnt matter with postage and emails and such but im just curious. Id also be curious to know what sort of card stocks you print on and to see some samples of typography printed in a business cardish way if you have any please?

Thanks again for your advice.

tim

[bigdave]

black foil print will look really really good on 75% black cards. It'll give a lovely shine to the lettering and make it stand out in a completely different way!

I used to work for a hot foil company in Scarborough called Philprint. you can contact Phil Binder on 01723 862800. He's been specialising in hot foil for about 15 years so Im sure he'll be able to help you out.

[garrison]

Thanks for the tip dave. i am currently weighing between a card exactly like you just described and one that would be a very light grey, probably around 25% with orange lettering. I think either would look really good though the grey and orange one I would get down in either letterpress or litho probably. Orange foils tend to look a little odd.

[garrison]

Hello again everyone.

I have just uploaded some proofs to flikr if anyone would like to check them out. They are still very rough so please be kind ;)

Thanks for your time as always.

flikr biz card proofs on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[SparkCreative]

Ok.. quick question- why are you doing two different designs? Or are you still trying to choose?

The grey one will look great. Although I'd go the whole hog and have black foil on black colourplan. The orange one could also be done foil block, or screen printed. Both would look great. You can't really use letterpress because it doesn't really work that way - you'd need to work with a letterpress printer to see what fonts they had and design around that.

[garrison]

I have actually been sitting on the Grey / black design for ages but suddenly came up with the Grey / orange a couple of days ago. I am totally on the fence between the two and cant decide lol.

Thanks for the tip with about letterpress that is really helpful. So far i havent seem any orange foils I liked so i am tempted to choose litho for that so I can choose the exact shade of range.

Thanks for your time.

[garrison]

i have just received a sample card in metalic bronze foil on grey GF Smith card if anyone wants to see. i think this would work real well for the orange / grey design.

Any thoughts?

bronze foil card on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[Davidw]

i have just received a sample card in metalic bronze foil on grey GF Smith card if anyone wants to see. i think this would work real well for the orange / grey design.

Any thoughts?

bronze foil card on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Old thread but looks good - copper foil, simple and classy.