We often have customers asking for frosted and satin black cards with a very short time period.

The standard turnaround time for this product is 7 to 10 working days.

This time frame builds in time for the printing plates to be ordered, produced and received. This can at worse case scenario take 3 working days.

The timeframe also includes time to actually print the cards and some room for any problems occurring. For example occasionally the printing plates may be damaged in the post / during transit.

We can offer rush order, which may sometime but subject to an additional charge to cover ordering express printing plates and paying staff to work overtime.

I just wanted to very briefly explain why this product does take a little time to produce.

Please contact us if you have any order you need really quickly.

Since we have started calling our frosted plastic cards, clear plastic cards or clear business cards we have already started to receive more enquiries for them.

We offer free design service for our clear business cards, alternative the customer can supply the artwork if they prefer.

We have made a few tweaks to our website recently to make it easier to navigate and find the information.

One important change we have made to the clear plastic card page is adding the navigation buttons to the top of each page in addition to the bottom.

An example of a clear plastic card order

Hot foil printing has been around for a long long time however unfortunately the products we offer via this printing method (frosted plastic cards, satin black plastic cards and some metallic plastic cards) are just not selling as well at the moment as they have been in the past.

We have recently discovered that our frosted plastic cards are often referred to by customers as clear business cards or clear plastic cards so we are now calling them this instead.

We have tried different ways to promote these cards including re-designing the web pages, including artwork in the price and just generally promoting them as a professional yet contemporary plastic card. However this has surprisingly not really increased the sales in this area.

We will try our best to think of other ways to promote this excellent product however if anybody out there comes up with any ideas for us, please drop us a line.

Its not a product we are looking to stop selling as we appreciate that customers do want the choice.

Catch you soon

Another loverly clear plastic card example

We recently printed this frosted plastic card for a customer.

It is printed with holoprint and black and we think it looks rather stunning.

We find holoprint on frosted plastic is a very popular colour choice, sometime the holoprint is only used for a very small aspect of the design but it still remains effective in catching the eye.

On this example, the holoprint was printed first with the black then printed over the top so the holoprint of the film shows through the areas where the black is not printed.

A frosted plastic card

This week we have received lots of orders for frosted cards with a similar design to our tripod example, see our Frosted Plastic Cards page or view the video.

This card is a frosted clear plastic card printed with small ovals printed with clear foil on the back which gives a subtle watermark effect and holoprint printed on the front of the card.