Large card printing on 18pt thick natural kraft card stock brings a rustic and earthy appeal to your oversized rack cards, product cards, menus and large postcards.
Print large cards ranging in size from 8" x 6" up to 11" x 17" in full color with optional white ink at surprisingly affordable prices to design with a wide range of color options to print photographs and graphic elements on this natural kraft card stock.
Make your color pop with spot white ink that backs-up your full color art. Backing up parts or all of your artwork results in brighter colors, giving your designs a boost because these elements are printed on top of a spot white layer.
The white ink used in this print method is not opaque and is somewhat transparent when applied to the Natural Kraft stock. It is not designed as a solid ink, but is more for design elements or to be used as a white backup to brighten the CMYK colours. Please request samples to see examples of the white ink prior to placing your order.
For best results, don't use rich black on 18pt Natural Kraft stock, as it can cause issues with mis-registration. 100% K will be just fine. If using grey, a black-ink only grey will give also give you best results.
For spot white printing we require you supply a separate additional page showing the spot white areas (eg: images, text etc.). For more information on setting up spot white for the 18pt Natural Kraft Cards, you can view our Spot Gloss tutorial as the setup is the same.
Tightly registered detail using spot white can cause 'haloing', where the spot white might not exactly align with the CMYK elements. Anywhere that the white and CMYK tightly register and end together should be avoided.
Some colors are hard to read due to the color of this card stock. Yellow/oranges, med browns and greens are good examples. When in doubt, default to a darker color!
The minimum recommended text size is 6pt. With any small text, if grey use a Black Ink Only version; if Black, use 100% K to prevent issues with misregistration.
Anything thinner than a hairline stroke (0.25") - even at 100% K may look choppy when printed due to digital print resolution.
Bleeds: all files must have a 1/8" bleed on each side
Live Area: keep all critical text and artwork 1/8" inside the trim
Colors: supply your files in CMYK color (Pantone/RGB colors will be converted or rejected)
Spot White: Include a separate vector file/artboard with these elements colored with Pantone Black to denote the special finishing. Spot White ink elements must be supplied as vector.
Resolution: 300 dpi minimum (400 dpi preferred)
Fonts: fonts must converted to curves/outlines (we do not accept fonts).
Transparencies: flatten all transparencies
Types Of Files We Accept: MAC & PC files from Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (EPS or AI), CorelDraw (CDR or EPS), Adobe Acrobat PDF, TIFF or JPEG.
| Trim Size | File Size | Template | |
| Large Card | 6" x 8" | 6.25" x 8.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Large Card | 6" x 8.5" | 6.25" x 8.75" | DOWNLOAD |
| Large Card | 6" x 9" | 6.25" x 9.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Large Card | 6.25" x 9" | 6.5" x 9.25" | UNAVAILABLE |
| Large Card | 4.5" x 12.5" | 4.75" x 12.75" | UNAVAILABLE |
| X-Large Card | 6" x 11" | 6.25" x 11.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| X-Large Card | 7" x 10" | 7.25" x 10.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| X-Large Card | 5" x 14" | 5.25" x 14.25" | UNAVAILABLE |
| Letter-Size Card | 8.5" x 11" | 8.75" x 11.25" | DOWNLOAD |
Digitally Printed using Dry Electrostatic Transfer System
18pt Natural Kraft Card Stock, 100% recycled w/ minimum 30% post-consumer waste
Full Color Both Sides (4/4) or Full Color One Side (4/0) + spot white ink (optional)
