We recommend ordering a minimum of 250 cards, especially if you are doing something complex. With the number of production steps usually involved in our card production, we highly recommend you order more at first. With setup costs for each production step, it will cost less to order more at first, rather than pay for all the production steps all over again.

We routinely print stocks up to 60pt (.06″ caliper) and we duplex after print for even beefier thickness. That is what we call “thump factor.”

We can print a line screen halftone style photo. Think about a grayscale newspaper image – that is the effect we will print. We typically print an image with anywhere from 50-100 line halftone screens. We push the values in the image to land mostly between 20 and 80 percent. More than 80% starts can start to fill with ink, and less than 20% may risk washing away in the plating process. Halftone images can be a challenge to ink up on letterpress and require a robust inking system with lots of pressure.