Foil Stamped Business Cards

Hot foil stamping uses a die to press metallic foil into the card, bonding the foil into the cotton board with heat and pressure. The foil sits in a recessed impression, not as metallic ink or a printed effect on top. The result is a real metallic surface on the front of the card.

Each card is a single flat rectangle at 90 x 55 mm on white 300gsm Wild Cotton premium cotton board. Landscape is the default orientation, and portrait is available at no extra charge. The card is printed front only with the back left unprinted. A plain digitally printed back can be arranged on request as a custom quote.

Foil stamped business card printing is made to order, so nothing is held in stock. Order from 100 to 250 cards in steps of 10, with larger runs available by custom quote. The lead time is 18 to 23 working days from design approval, and that window already includes delivery to an Australian address. There is no maximum number of proof rounds, and nothing goes to press until you approve the design.

The foil areas are the design, not a background texture. Clean shapes, a single logo and a restrained amount of type carry a stamp well. The whole front is stamped in the one foil colour you choose for the job. Additional foil colours can be requested.

These cards suit a studio or consultancy where the card is handed over at the end of a first meeting. They also fit an architect, a jeweller, a lawyer, a photographer, or a hospitality or property brand. A clean logo in gold or silver on white cotton board is easy to read at arm's length, and the recessed impression gives the recipient something to feel.

These foil stamped business cards are die pressed into cotton board. The digital foil business cards in the custom business cards range are a digital finish on a coated card, so they are different jobs with different lead times. If you want a metallic finish that sits raised above the card, choose the embossed foil business cards. For a single colour ink impression with no metallic, the letterpress business cards are the sibling.

Foil pressed business cards carry a foil film with an actual metallic face, so the surface catches and throws light the way solid metal does. A metallic ink only sits on the sheet as a printed approximation, and metallic paper gives a flat reflective background rather than a metal surface with a shaped finish. Because the foil is pressed into the cotton board, the stamped shape sits in a recessed impression that printed ink and metallic paper cannot create. When the card is tilted, that recess breaks the light into a sharp line around the design, which gives the card a physical depth that reads before the wording does. It is a material finish, not a printed representation of one.

Foil blocking, hot foil stamping and foil pressing are trade names for the one finish. The names describe the same job. A die carries the artwork and presses foil into the front of the card. A die is a custom plate cut to the design, so it only works for that layout. That is why one die is made per design, and why artwork is approved before the die is produced. If a print spec lists hot foil stamping or foil pressing, the end result is the same recessed metallic surface. You do not need to choose between the names, because you choose the artwork and the foil colour.

You order foil stamped business cards online and approve the proof from any address in Australia. Once approval is given, a die is made for that design and the cards are stamped to order on the uncoated cotton board. The lead time runs 18 to 23 working days from that approval, not from the day the order is submitted. That is a long window because the die is made, the foil is applied card by card, and the job is finished and packed before it leaves. Delivery to the address on the order is already included inside that quoted window.