How Die Cutting Works?

Custom die cut business cards are produced using a sharp steel cutting blade called a "die" that's formed into a shape similar to a cookie cutter. Die cutting can be used either to punch out a decorative shape or pattern within a piece or to create an interesting outer shape for your business card design. Die cuts enable you to create fancy shapes from curvy edges to sharp points, as well as contours of recognizable items such as cars, animals, buildings or flowers - the ideas are endless! Die cutting is also the ticket for creating custom business cards with large rounded corners, holes, pop-ups, slits or other functional or eye-catching details, or other popular products such as door hangers, greeting cards and postcards.

Detail:

Estimated production time:   2-3 business days (*should be added to printing production time.)
Applicable Products:             Die cut  can be applied on most of products includes business cards, flyers, postards
Available stock:                    All of the paper stock 

  File Preparations:  Die Cut

For  the file preparation of the spot UV area on the business cards, you need to incorporate extra die cut line as below in the your artwork. JPG file is not acceptable, Vector Graphic Files is preferrd- vector-based images can be scaled by any amount without degrading quality. Usually supplied in PDF, AI, EPS or CDR formats. Colours set to CMYK,  All images in your artwork are 300dpi when placed at 100%, All fonts are outlined (converted to curves) or embedded.

* Or you can supply us just a file (AI, PDF, PSD, CDR format is prefered) setting all the files below on separate graphic layers

Example for Die Cut: Do die cut on the pattern on the left.