Matte Uncoated 14pt Rack Card Printing Made in the USA
For a natural matte appearance, choose 14pt uncoated rack cards. This smooth, uncoated card stock absorbs ink for soft, muted color that gives your design an organic and professional look.
These rack cards are perfect when you need a writable surface for notes, entry forms, surveys, or personalization. Pens, pencils, and stampers work great without smudging, making this a practical option for businesses, events, and promotions.
Product Details
Card Stock: 14pt uncoated matte finish
Writable Surface: Works with pens, pencils, and ink stampers
Printing Method:
Quantities from 100 to 250 are digitally printed
Quantities of 500 or more are offset printed for added quality
Printed in the USA: Produced at our California print facility
Production Time: Approximately five business days.
It is common to see "frayed / rough edges" on uncoated stocks, especially with ink coverage that extends to the edge of the cards. When a stock is not coated the fibres can break loose when trimmed. Choosing a coated or laminated card will help avoid this issue.
Uncoated stocks produce subdued, muted colors that may appear dull compared to coated stocks with low lustre aqueous or high gloss UV coatings.
The fiber in uncoated cards may break when scored to fold, producing what appears to be cracks in the paper. If you don't like crack we suggest, you choose a coated stock instead.
CMYK Process colors in the grey range and de-saturated images can shift in color throughout the print run and may cause the greys to appear either cooler or warmer. For a neutral grey, we recommend converting all grey values and de-saturated images to true greyscale consisting of K (black) only values.
Due to the nature of club-run printing, you may experience color variation in solid fills of blue/ For great blue results, we recommend a 30% difference between your Cyan and Magenta levels to ensure a nice rich dark blue, rather than purple.
For the richest of deep dark blacks in print use 50/40/40/100 as the CMYK value. If printing small black text (or knocked out text) we recommend a k only black (0/0/0/100) to avoid misregistration issues.
Uncoated stocks are more grainy and fibrous than other stocks, so if you are looking for really sharp lines or micro text a coated stock will be up to that challenge.
Write up a storm! Unlike our coated options, these cards work perfect as stamp cards, appointment cards, or a business card that you can scrawl a note across the back. You've found a match.
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)
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 | |
| Rack Card | 4" x 9" | 4.25" x 9.25" | DOWNLOAD |
| Mega Card | 4.25" x 11" | 4.5" x 11.25" | DOWNLOAD |
Offset Printed using Stochastic Screens
14pt Uncoated Card Stock, 30% post-consumer waste
Full Color Both Sides (4/4) or Full Color One Side (4/0), using soy-based inks
