Business Card Printing in Dubai

The card is a functional object

A business card has one job: to let someone contact you three weeks after they met you. Everything else is secondary to the phone number being legible and the card surviving a wallet.

That is worth saying because the problems we see most often are practical rather than aesthetic — type set at six point because the design got crowded, a dark background nobody can write a note on, or a gloss finish on a card people are expected to write on.

Choosing a finish

Matt lamination is the safe default. Flat, resists fingerprints, easy to read, and works with almost any design.

Gloss lamination makes colours and photographs stronger. It also shows every fingerprint and is difficult to write on.

Soft-touch is matt with a velvety surface. You notice it immediately when you pick the card up, which is the entire point of it.

Spot UV applies gloss to selected areas only, usually a logo, over a matt background. Used sparingly it looks considered. Used across the whole card it just looks like gloss lamination and costs more.

Foil presses metallic gold or silver into the card. It suits marks with clean, solid shapes, and does not work well on fine detail or photographs.

Quantities

Cards are printed in sheets, so the cost per card falls sharply as the quantity rises — the difference between 100 and 500 cards is much smaller than you would expect. If several people in the company need cards, quoting them together is almost always cheaper than ordering one box at a time.