subject: Are Your Business Card Designs 100% Ready? [print this page] Is your design 100% ready for business card printing? If you are not entirely sure, you better give your designs a second look. Believe me, you will want to make your designs as perfect as possible when printing business cards. Not only does your design reflect upon your professional business image, but it will also determine if your efforts and resources for business card printing was indeed worth it.
So to make sure everything is 100% A-OK in your business card designs, let me give you this list of proper checks in business card printing. This is our standard professional check list in designing professional business cards. Let us start with what you may need to check in terms of business card content.
Things to check for content First, you will need to check if the content is 100% ready. One of the things you should always triple check are your contact information such as telephone number, fax numbers, mobile phone numbers, email addresses and actual home and office addresses. More often than not, some people have the tendency to make some mistakes in these kinds of information. Any error regarding these types of content will be detrimental to your business cards obviously. So it is important that your contact information is precise and up to date 100%.
To do this methodically, I recommend that you do three or more proofreading checks on your business card content. Do it once after composing your content draft. Another check should be done after inserting and formatting it in the design. Plus you should aim for another check just right before business card printing. It is best to have another person check your work as well so that no mistake passes unto the printer.
Things to check for text design The second thing to check in business card printing is the text design. Besides the content itself of course, you should check if the font styles, font formatting and font color all match your business card theme. You will be surprised as to how some people actually mismatch their font style and formatting with the theme of their color business cards. So it is important for you to check precisely your font settings if they do indeed work with the theme.
To check your design, the best way to do it is to try out variations of the font style, font size and font color. Use around 3-5 variations that you think is good and see what looks best for you. It is better to try to choose these font settings just after the final design elements have been put into your draft. This should help you quite a lot in choosing the proper font style and formatting that your business cards need.
Things to check on your images The third thing to check when printing business cards are your images. The most important thing to check here is the appropriateness of the image, as well as its resolution. Whatever you are inserting in your color business cards, be it a logo or a photograph, the image must be appropriate to the theme. Make sure that the color scheme of your image matches the overall color scheme of the business card. You must do this to get a more coherent and beautiful business card design.
Besides that, you should also of course check the resolution of your image. A lot of beginner designers actually make the mistake of using low resolution images in their business card drafts. Using these low-res images will cause them to look fuzzy once they are printed in business cards. That is why it is important to always check if your images are in the highest resolution possible. A value of 300dpi or larger is best for business card printing so that the images come out crystal clear with not fuzziness.
Things to check on your draft settings Finally, there is also a need to check your draft settings. For example, you should always check your dimensions if it is set to the proper business card size. You might also want to check if your color settings are set to CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black) since that is the standard color mode used in professional business card printing. Finally, you might want to check if you are using the right file format. Some printers prefer using .psd or .pub for printing, while others are cool with using images such as .bmp and .jpg.
Whatever the case, you should check your draft settings several times over to make sure that they are indeed set properly for business card printing. Believe me, it is better to set these things now, than be surprised at the changes made after printing.
So those are the standard list of items to check in your business card designs. If you follow these standard checks right, your business cards should be 100% ready for business card printing.
by: rblanchard44
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