Spot UV Business Cards
Add extra luxury with Spot UV Business Cards.
Spot UV gloss can be applied to the surface of your business card, creating a clear and shiny layer in your own design on top of the printed artwork. This allows you to direct attention to the important aspects of your printed design, or to create subtle design elements that can only be seen reflecting in the light.
Available exclusively on a 16pt stock with either a standard Semi Gloss coating, or our premium Smooth Matte Laminate coating. The contrast between the matte finish and the high-shine spot UV creates an eye-catching addition.
You can design your cards to have the spot UV gloss applied over only the most selective areas of the card, such as your logo or business name. As a creative alternative, you can use the spot UV gloss to create a subtle pattern overlay that is visible only when caught in the light. We give you creative freedom to use as much or as little Spot UV as you like, on one or both sides, all for the same affordable price.
For a premium card with the highest impact, blind embossing can be used in combination with a spot UV design for shiny areas that are also raised from the card.
Spot UV Business Card Inspiration
Chic Makeup Artistry Business cards produced with Spot UV
- 16pt Coated (C2S)
- Standard - 3.5" x 2"
- Offset
Tucann Business Cards produced with spot uv double sided
Pitch Business cards spot uv with registered embossed
Greson business cards with spot uv, silver foil and file foil edges
Spot UV Business Card Pricing
Explore More Possibilities with Spot UV
- Popular FAQ
- Download Template
- Design Guidelines
Most Popular Questions
Spot UV is an additional coating of clear gloss that is applied to specific areas on your print (as defined in your press-ready file setup).
It is a speciality finish that adds an extra touch and eye-catching, but classy, dimension to prints. It can be applied to a small area or cover a large portion of artwork. Commonly, designers will apply the Spot UV on their logo or as an overlaid clear pattern.
See: Spot UV product page for a gallery of photographs of this coating.
Setting up press-ready files for Spot UV
Spot UV files should be supplied as separations. This means the Spot UV layer is supplied in a separate file (or separate page) of your press-ready PDF file.
What is the minimum quantity for Spot UV?
The minimum quantity for Spot UV cards is 500.
Shaped cards and other speciality finishes for Spot UV have a minimum quantity of 1000.
Who are Spot UV Cards suitable for?
Spot UV cards are one of our most popular products – with all industries and professions. An inexpensive premium finish, a popular choice with:
- Designers – Graphic, Web, Fashion and Interior
- Media Industry
- PR Agencies
- Event Planners
- Social Media consultants and managers
- Customer Relationship Management
Will you check that my Spot UV file aligns correctly with my print file?
Our Prepress department is responsible for assessing files for potential print errors. Examples of these errors include incorrect bleed, colour space or low resolution photos.
Spot UV alignment to the print is an aspect of the design and should be verified by your designer prior to submitting an order – and then also confirming in your PDF Proof. We do not check this alignment during the proofing process.
Our Press and Quality Control teams will ensure that your order is printed as per the accepted proof.
What designs look best with Spot UV?
We like to encourage the most creative and exciting design work.
Many people choose to apply the Spot UV layer to simply text and logos on their business cards – however we suggest taking your design and creativity beyond this. Check out the gallery on our Spot UV page for some creative inspiration. Below are a few further tips:
- Blind Spot UV looks great on black (or other rich solid background colour)
- A tiled pattern, either shapes or your company logo, can create a striking texture over your card
- For the greatest impact of Spot UV on your logo, consider different ways that the clear gloss layer can be applied
- Spot UV highlighting parts of a raster image (such as water droplets) can create an eye catching effective if executed well (but can look unprofessional if not set up correctly)
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- Bleed Area
- Trim Area
- Safe Area
Bleed Area refers to images that extend to the very edges of a design. To prevent an unwanted white border from showing at the edge of your design, or for the design to appear slightly off-center, be sure to extend any background colors or design elements all the way to the edge of bleed (.125” past the trim on all four sides).
Trim Area refers to the amount of the image that will appear on your finished product. These areas will also be marked with ‘cut lines’ on your proof and are where we aim to cut your card.
Safety Area in most cases refers to 1/8 of an inch inside of the Trim Area. For thicker papers 20pt and up or wooden papers the Safety Area increases ¼ of an inch inside the Trim Area. we strongly recommend you keep important aspects of your design such as text and logos well inside of the Safety Area, otherwise, they may be cut off.
Design Considerations
Design considerations for Spot UV
There are several things to consider when designing for Spot UV.
File Setup and Preparation
It is important to have your file setup. This is a complex setup, and it is best to have an experienced designer prepare these files for you. See: Setting up press-ready Spot UV file.
Fine Detail
See: Fine detail in Spot UV.
Spot UV Registration
Unfortunately we cannot guarantee exact Spot UV Gloss registration to the CMYK print. See: How accurate is the Spot UV registration?
Blind Spot UV Text
When objects are placed in the Spot UV layer, but not registered to any CMYK print design – this is Blind Spot UV.
Text-content that is applied as Blind Spot UV may not be legible (as Spot UV is a clear layer). To read the text, it will need to catch the light in the right way – it may not be readable at all angles and under certain light.
Blind Spot UV can be a very impressive effect to your card – however if there is any text we recommend very large size if this is part of your design (14pt font size or larger). We do not recommend important information and contact details (such as phone numbers and website address) to be in Blind Spot UV for this reason.