MULTILINGUAL BUSINESS CARD TRANSLATION SERVICES

Business Card Paper Properties

Weight and Thickness (Stock): 14pt Thick C2S (Coated to 2-Sides) Cardstock.
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Card size: 3.5x2

Coating: UV Coating, No Coating or UV Coating One Side. Learn more about coating...

Color: 4/4 or 4/0 (4/1 is same price as 4/4) [4/4: 4 colors on both sides; 4/0: 4 colors on one side; 4/1: 4 color on one side and 1 color on the others. Learn more about card color...

Weight and Thickness of Paper (Stock)

In the printing business, either paper thickness or weight is used to characterize the tier of paper quality.

Generally speaking, heavier paper (in terms of “lb”) is higher quality. Paper may also be defined by the thickness of the cover, for example 12pt or 15pt (1pt stands for .001 inch). Again, a thicker cover means that the paper is of a higher tier.

At PLG we use 14pt cardstock for all of our business card printing. This means that the paper thickness is.014 inch, the equivalent to 115lb weight paper. This is one of the most popular paper choices when printing business cards.

Should you have any special requirements for a heavier weight paper weight, please contact us or specify this in the “message to PLG” section on the order form. Special and custom orders are available at very competitive pricing.

Base coating: Our cards are printed on paper with a base coating that protects the paper. The text is then printed on top of the coating layer.

UV coating: UV coating serves two purposes—it protects the text from wearing off and it gives the card a shinier finish. The use of UV coating is simply a question of customer preference. Please note that the UV coating will prevent you from writing on the card. If you foresee the need to make notes on the card, we recommend UV coating on one side only.

Coating options do not change card price.

Color



We use CMYK color indexes taken from the file you provide as the color print parameters for color cards. The logo artwork and template may include CMYK colors; however, due to a variation of ink material manufacturers, equipment setup, and printing processes by individual printers, the output of CMYK colors on the cards may not be EXACTLY identical to the color of your original English cards or the color on your computer screen. In most cases, there is not a noticeable difference. If it is critical that your cards be an exact color match to your English cards, we recommend that you provide the PLG translated artwork to your original printer.

Additional Options

We offer the following popular options at additional costs:

• Perforation
• Corner Rounding
• Hole Drilling
• Numbering
• Spot UV

Please specify any of these additional options in your message to PLG.

Required Files from Clients

So that we can best meet your needs please send us your English card file or template file. The file should include the company logo, card color and contents (address, numbers and other information listed on the card). All contents should be accurate so they can be easily “transferred” to another language on the back of the card. We accept common file formats such as Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and EPS format.

We do not recommend sending your artwork as a JPG or TIF, but if it is only available in these formats, you may send them and we will tell you whether these files can be used. With these files, graphics resolution and color matching is the main concern. Generally speaking, 300 dpi or higher resolution is necessary to maintain quality