HI All,

The Oscars…what an exciting time….have any of your fav films won an award?

A design company approached us this year enquiring about using our frosted clear plastic cards as invitations for the VIP’s for this event. Unfortunately they had too much information to put on them and decided they were not viable, I kept saying less is more but apparently the information was very important and needed to be included.

I am currently busy adding some of the films I have missed to my home move rental subscription, but don’t tell the boss!

Happy film watching!

Hi All,

We received the following enquiry today and through I would share it with you so that you can see the type of enquiry we receive:

“Hi there, I’m looking for some biz cards that are a little different to the norm.

I have a black on white design which I want printed on to clear plastic cards where the top half is completely transparent. I then want a hole put on the side of them and some pink string tied through – basically making a sort of gift tag style biz card.

Can you do that? if so, how much for 250?”

Our response to this enquiry was as follows:

“We offer frosted clear plastic cards however the frosted effect is all over the card we can not leave part of it completely clear. We never recommend completely clear cards or even a section of them clear as they show scratches very very easily and look terrible after a very short period of time.

I also would not recommend having a hole in business cards for two reasons:

1) On the frosted clear card would may see a stress mark around the punch
2) Just a thought – how can people put the cards in their wallets with string attached – just a consideration for you

Would you like a quote for our frosted clear plastic cards? I have attached a picture of the frosted clear cards we offer for your review.”

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Currently we are waiting to hear back from the customer but through I would share the kind of enquiry we get with you in relation to our frosted clear plastic cards.

Hi All,

The free design service for our clear plastic cards, satin black and metallic plastic cards is going very well, we have varying numbers of requests a day but the quantity generally ranges from 20 to 50 a day.

Unfortunately, although we are designing the cards purely from the customers own input we find that after the initial communication we hear nothing back from them. Possibly an idea which disappeard as quickly as it appeared.

We have decided to now ask for a small deposit to start the design process, this is so that we can concentrate on genuine customers. You would be surprised how many people come on to us for plastic cards and after weeks of communication vanish off the planet!

It only a nominal amount and doesn’t cover the full cost of labour, software and admin time however we just feel a little commitment from the customer is required.

Hope you understand and don’t get upset by this, we are just trying to ensure genuine customers are getting our full attention.

Catch you soon

A clear plastic card

We have updated the website to promote our free design service for frosted, satin black and metallic plastic cards.

The design service can be requested via a form which asks various questions.

We ask the customer to provide as much information as possible to help with the design process, this way we can ensure that the design is customised as much as possible to the customers own vision. We provide examples of past work which can help provide ideas to the customer and we can base there design around on of these if required. The more information we had to go off the easier it is to create a stunning design based on the customers own needs and requirements.

Logos etc can be uploaded to the design request form, ideally these are provided as line artwork and in a high enough resolution so that the quality will not suffer when the cards are printed.

Please give the design request for a go if you are looking for a personalised design.

Alternatively you can email your own artwork to us, we will provide an email proof for your approval.

Bye for now.

This clear plastic card is printed with 3 ink colours

Recently we have been receiving more orders for our clear plastic cards.

The increase in clear plastic card orders is from a combination of repeat plastic card orders, referral plastic card orders, our website being more prominent on the internet so more customers can find us and also because we have recently updates the clear plastic card galleries showing various examples of our work.

A clear plastic card will always be eye catching, even if printed with just a single ink colour, rather than a more complicated and expensive multi colour plastic card.

Over the last few days we have been working hard to implement a new frosted clear business card example page found here.

We hope that our customers will like the new way the cards are displayed in a fun fashion.

Below are images showing examples of our clear business cards.
Click on the images to view our website showing clear business cards.

A small order for 100 clear plastic cards was placed on the 26th May, it just had one colour to the front and was quite a simple yet effective design.

We dispatched the order on the 2nd June which is 5 working days. The customer was very pleased that the cards arrived earlier than expected & sent us a lovely email saying:

“The cards arrived this morning

Thank you so much – they’re absolutely great! Speedy delivery too. I will be recommending CPCards!”

The customer originally wanted the cards for the 4th June and we advised that this  may be a little tight which  in the end we got the cards to the customer a day early.

An effective clear business card design printed with one colour

We are still finding that many customers are making enquiries for our clear business cards which is certainly keeping our design team busy as we offer a free design service for every order for clear business cards.

Have a look at our website and browse through the examples on their showing examples of our work.

We find a popular colour combination is people choosing one ink colour, usually silver, printed onto the clear business card but often customers have multiple ink colours printed.

The example below shows a clear business card printed with two different blue colours and white (3 ink colours in total)

clear business cards example

Hi all,

It has come to our attention that a lot of American companies are advertising clear plastic cards on the internet search engines. I just wanted to point out that we are a UK based company and our cards are produced in the UK.

This means that the production and shipping time for your order is not delayed by the cards having to cross waters or potentially been delayed by customs.

Also remember that we your order goods from America you will also be subject to duty (which I believe is 5%) and VAT (which we would obviously have to apply at the current rate of 15%).

Please come and purchase our clear cards, they are great!

Bye for now.

Some plastic card examples