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Glossy Business Cards versus Matte Business Cards
Whether you choose Glossy Business Cards or Matte Business Cards, there are benefits and drawbacks to each!
Matte Card
Rather than being shiny and reflective, a matte card has a “light-absorbing” eggshell finish!
Major Benefits:
Unlike Glossy Business Cards, You can write on them with a pen!
This is perfect for people who want cards that they can add extra information too, such as real estate agents who like to add property info to each personal business card that they’re handing out.
For coffee shops and other small businesses that use business cards for “buy ten cups get one free” style offers, then it would also be preferable to make matte cards that can be stamped or initialed.
They have a very “tactile” feel!
Quality matte cards from companies such as Overnightprints.com have this “silkiness” that is very pleasing to the touch. If you want to convey “elegance” and “sophistication” then this is a print finish that you might want to use.
Glossy Business Cards
Major benefits:
A Glossy Business Card is Sturdier!
With the addition of a glossy UV coating, a glossy card is thicker, sturdier, and more protected from the elements than a glossy card! A glossy card is quite hard to permeate even with a small amount of liquid or moisture, whereas a matte card is less sturdy and is not so impervious to wet fingers and so forth!
Glossy Cards can make Print Colors really “pop”
By adding a gloss finish to your prints, the color of your prints become brighter and more reflective. If you are going for a really colorful, eye-catching look to your prints, then you should choose a gloss finish!
The Alternative:
Spot UV
Matte and Gloss are literally like night and day! But there’s something that some print companies offer that give you the best of both worlds, and that’s Spot UV!
Spot UV is a print technique that combines matte and gloss finishes in a very cool way. By spot glossing areas of your design, you can make design features, such as logos, shapes, people, etc stand out like never before! The technique combines the best of both matte and gloss world, providing sophistication as well as color-popping bright and reflective color.
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