Akuafoil Business Cards
Radiance never seen before! Akuafoil gives you a wide range of CMYK colors with a sparkling foil finish and an ideal reflection that is priced to give you a true competitive advantage. State-of-the-art features allow you to produce large solid areas as well as reversed out areas of foil. You can produce foiled half tones, gradients and have multiple colors in foil on the same design. The design possibilities are limited only by your imagination, giving you an exquisite edge.
- Printed full color with foil on front and/or back
- 16pt stock
- Rectangle or rounded corners
Artwork Preparation
If selecting "I need a design", one of our graphic designers will contact you via email within 24 hours to begin your design. Design fee includes 1 concept and 3 revisions. Any additional revisions will be $10 each and will be billed after the design phase is complete. Production turnaround time begins only when the design phase is complete and design has been approve for print by the customer.
Feel free to Contact Us for a design template if you are creating your own artwork and please follow the guidelines below:
For an Akuafoil job, you must include an Akuafoil/mask file along with your CMYK file. The mask file indicates where the foil will be placed. The file process is the same as spot UV—100% K where foil is placed, 0% where the foil is not placed.
As shown above, the file on the left is the normal CMYK print file. If you want the logo to be Akuafoil, then your Akuafoil mask file should look like the file on the right. The White indicates no foil and 100% K indicates where the Akuafoil will be.
Here are some more things to keep in mind when creating your Akuafoil artwork:
- Make sure the mask and CMYK print file are aligned and match up properly.
- Akuafoil works best on lighter colors. The darker the CMYK color, the less the Akuafoil look.
- Do not use very thin or small text and artwork with Akuafoil... Use san serif fonts above 12 point for best results.
If you would like only silver Akuafoil to print, make sure to have at least 15% K in that white area. White in the CMYK file that is 100% K in the Akuafoil file will appear as plain silver Akuafoil. However, for a higher quality plain silver Akuafoil, we recommend to have at least 15% K in that white area.
- Please create your file in CMYK mode with a resolution of 300dpi
- If your file has been created in RGB or includes RGB objects, we recommend converting the file to CMYK.
- Graphic Size: 3.5" x 2" (Please add a .25" bleed to your artwork. Final artwork size should be 3.75" x 2.25")
- If your business card will be double sided, please upload two PDF files. One file for outside and one file for the inside.
- Before you upload your artwork, be sure your artwork is sent in the same size or ratio as your order.
- All fonts should be converted to curves or outlines.
- We suggest your files be flattened or rasterized if possible to minimize the file size.
- We accept the following file formats: pdf, eps, svg, ai, psd, jpeg, png, tiff. Jpeg files are accepted, but it is strongly suggested that the jpeg is created at the closest size possible to the final print size.
