Hot foil business cards on heavyweight board, printed from your artwork in my Eastbourne press room.
You’ve designed the card. Now you need it printed. Send me the artwork, and I’ll help work out the board, foil, impression and production.
Heavy board. Real foil. Deep impression.
I print business cards individually on traditional presses, using pressure and make-ready to control the impression.
Some designs need restraint: one foil, plenty of untouched board and a beautifully controlled impression. Others deserve something more unreasonable. Duplex board. Contrasting stocks. Letterpress. Edge gilding. A deep foil strike.
The production follows the design rather than forcing the design into a rectangle.
Sometimes the material is part of the design.
Real metallic foil catches light as the card moves. Deep impression changes the surface. Heavy board says something paper can’t.
I use vintage machinery because it gives me so many options.
I’m Simon, and I’ve been working in print since 1987. There isn’t an account manager between you and the person making your cards. Send me the design and you’re talking to the person who will work out how to print it and eventually stand at the press producing it. Sometimes I’ll suggest doing something differently. Sometimes I’ll tell you something won’t work. And sometimes you’ll send me something that makes me think, yes, that’ll be interesting.
That’s the useful bit about working directly with a printer.