A set of three uniquely sized letterpress business cards.

One of the most popular questions we get from clients is, what size should I make my business cards? Here’s usually what we tell people. A majority of the cards we print are standard size: 3.5″ x 2″ (U.S.) and 55mm x 85mm (European), and 55mm x 91mm (Japanese). That being said we print more than our fair share of small/mini and square business cards.

Probably one of the most popular non-standard size is 3.5″ x 1.5″ like these cards we’ve printed for Gustavo (Photo (video) graphers ♥ Letterpress). If square cards are more your style check out these cards we printed for Randy Schmidt (Letterpress pupCards). Read more about the Do’s and Dont’s of business card sizes after the break.

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Check out these letterpress business cards we printed for a Barbados based company.

Yes, we work with people from Europe, designers in Australia, and corporations in Asia. Since we’re both a print shop and design studio we accept files straight from designers and also work with clients to create custom stationery suites, wedding invites, and more. More information about how to place international orders after the break.

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Traditional images don’t work with letterpress printing.

Andrea is a photographer from Las Vegas who we’ve worked with in the past (Andrea Tunbridge Photography). She recently reordered letterpress business cards and we wanted to share them on the blog. Because of the plate and printing process involved with letterpress, images don’t always work best with letterpress. We’ll share some of our thoughts and tips on using images in letterpress projects and show you more of these cards we printed for Andrea after the break.

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Here’s a few quick photos of letterpress thank you cards we printed for a wedding invitation suite. A lot of people put emphasis on the quality and esthetic of their wedding invitations, mostly because they want friends and relatives to know how important it is to them that they’re a part of the wedding. Wedding invitations and save the dates are often the first thing people associate with your special day and its important to start off on the right foot.

More often than not though people don’t think about thank you cards until after the wedding is over. After starting your wedding off right, don’t your guests deserve a beautifully printed and personalized thank you?

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A lot of people associate letterpress with a specific style,
but it can be whatever you want.

We normally post individual business cards but today we want to share a few cards to demonstrate how different letterpress business cards can be. These 4 certainly don’t represent the full spectrum and the design is only limited by your imagination. Read the rest of the post to see more photos of these letterpress business cards and find out more information on how to order your own cards.

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Don’t always believe everything you read!

We posted photos of Caroline’s completed business cards on friday (C McKeough UnLTD. Letterpress Cards) and promised to post photos we took while they were being printed. We weren’t able to photograph everything but got a good range of photos from proofs to printing to cutting. If we missed something you’d like to see let us know in the comments and we’ll try to include them in the the next production shoot we do.

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People always ask us what the letterpress process looks like and short of signing up for a reality show and having cameras follow us around the shop, we hope these photos tell at least part of the story. We posted Randy Schmidt’s letterpress pupCards yesterday and these photos were taken during the production of his cards.

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