What is Spot UV and Spot Gloss in Printing?

Spot UV and spot gloss are common terms for the print finishing technique of applying a high gloss UV coating to a selective area on a printed piece.

A common use of spot UV is to draw attention to a certain area of the printed piece, such as placing spot UV over a logo so that only the logo area is glossy. We offer spot UV as an option for our luxury business card printing and postcard printing, but it is also commonly used on packaging, flyers, brochures and other printed materials.

spot uv business cards gloss and silk coated Silk with spot UV gloss over the logo.

The Art of Exchanging Business Cards

Let’s review the timing and gesture in which you should exchange business cards to make the impact you desire with new contacts.

When meeting a new business contact or potential customer, there are certain points during your initial interaction that are the perfect time for exchanging business cards without coming across as pushy, or as if you are trying too hard to sell something.

Exchanging a business card photo Exchanging business cards.

Why We Offer a Very Specific Selection of Luxury Business Cards

We take pride on being a specialty business card printer who prints luxury business cards that are truly stunning and unique for our customers. Sometimes customers wonder why we don’t offer certain custom options. In this article we will explain why offering a specific product selection helps us offer you the best luxury business cards.

We have been involved in the print industry for almost 20 years now. We have carefully studied and tested countless types of papers, finishes and print methods. On our mission to offer our customers an easy choice for luxurious business cards we wanted to achieve three key things:

  1. We want to offer high end and uniquely luxurious business card
  2. We want to be able to offer our products at extremely competitive prices
  3. We want the process of ordering specialty print and various options to be easy to understand and easy to design artwork for
luxury silver foil business card with silk and spot uv Silver foil business cards with spot uv and our signature silk lamination.

How to Printing Custom Packaging Inserts for Your Amazon, Shopify or Ecommerce Business

As a ecommerce business owner, you are probably already aware of the impact that small things like including custom packaging inserts in your products can make on your customer’s overall experience. When you consider the cost of a small, finely printed ecommerce product insert or hang tag, the potential return on investment is huge. Ensuring that you have a luxurious looking insert vs a cheap flimsy and poorly printed insert can make a large difference as well.

An insert could contain a simple thank you, a request for a review, a coupon to entice a future purchase or all of these things combined. (See further below for more ideas for uses for packaging inserts)

custom gold foil hang tag printing packagingMinimal gold foil hang tags with silk coating printed for one of our customers.

What Makes a Luxury Business Card Stand Out from Regular Cards?

There are many differences between your average printer and a luxury business card printer. Here we will go over the 4 most important differences in quality that you should look out for when ordering your next set of business cards.

luxury business cards A few of the many luxury business cards that we have printed for our customers.

10 Stunning Black Business Card Designs

While we print luxury business cards in a variety of unique colors for our customers, one of the most common colors chosen is a solid deep black. There is a good reason for this - black ink contrasts with foil effects very nicely and it works great with the technique of applying “blind” spot uv. Blind spot uv is gloss elements placed in a certain area of the business card where there is no matching ink design underneath (commonly in a pattern over the rest of the ink), to create an even darker gloss contrast. In addition to that, black is a color that is bold and powerful.

black suede business cards with spot uv and rounded corners Beautiful Beasties, a black suede business card with spot uv and rounded corners.

What Differentiates Vermillion Silk from Other Specialty & Luxury Business Card Printers?

We like to think that our combination of service and quality make us the best luxury business card printer out there. While much of what we offer is unique, we are not the only printer offering specialty finishing options and with a higher focus on quality. With that said, what makes Vermillion Silk different? Why should any business owner or entrepreneur choose us?

luxury silver foil business cards with silk lamination Silver foil business cards with silk lamination and a spot uv gloss pattern on the back.

How to Design Elegant Business Cards that Pull Customers Into your Brand’s Story

We believe that great business card design focuses on what is most important.

As Dieter Rams said, “Good design is as little design as possible”.

When designing a business card, it is important to consider what the goal of the business card is. Do you want someone to call you, to email you, or to visit a certain location?

elegant silver foil business cards with matte silk lamination A great example of a minimal and elegant business card design.

Raised Foil and Raised Gloss Business Cards vs Traditional Foil Stamping and Spot UV

At Vermillion Silk we offer foil business cards and spot uv business cards. For each of both print finishing options, we offer two varieties - the traditional foil or spot gloss approach, and a raised foil or raised gloss option.

Depending on your design and preferences, there can be positives and negatives to either choice of raised or flat foil and gloss. Here we will describe some of the more subtle differences to consider so that you can be sure you are choosing exactly what finish is best for your particular design.

raised gold foil business cards with suede lamination Raised gold foil suede business cards. See this card in person when you order our luxury business card sample pack.

Unique Ideas for What to Put on Your Business Card

Here are a few unique ideas for the content that you could place on your business card. Before we start, it is important to mention that you should not overthink your business card design. A simple logo on one side with contact info on the other can do wonders with the help of a luxury business card printer like ourselves.

A great business card should be a token to remember someone by. It should be something that is unique and special so that the recipient will remember it and want to save it.

A great business card will be kept by the receiver for years to come, and even more importantly, it will generate results for your business.

unique suede business cards with green and white Our velvet-like suede business cards with a thumbprint printed over them for BrandThumb.

Luxury Business Cards - Ingredients in Great Business Card Design, and Considerations for having your Luxury Business Cards Printed

What makes a business card “luxury”?

We believe the following attributes describe a luxury business card, and we print business cards with these concepts in mind.

colorful luxury silk business cardsVibrant silk business cards with rounded corners.

A luxury business card should:

How Larger Businesses can Order Luxury Business Cards for their Whole Team

When ordering business cards for your entire team the process and concerns you might have before ordering are different from those involved when ordering a single set of business cards.

At Vermillion Silk, we take pride on making the experience as simple and satisfying as possible for companies ordering printing for their entire team.

Here we sum up the 5 key concerns when ordering luxury business cards for your whole team, followed by our solutions.

luxury business cards with suede coating for multiple employees Multiple sets of suede business cards printed for employees on the team at MaxQ.

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