If you want very exclusive postcards, for example for wedding invitations, it is best to take our Luxecore paper. With a thickness of 750 gsm, it is very stable and at the same time in ribbed, linen, bright white or chamois an exceptional and exclusive paper version.
If you are looking for cheap paper for mailings or participation cards, you can use offset or recycled paper. These papers also have the advantage that you can process the cards with a standard printer or copier.
With its slightly structured surface, the Groundwood pulp board is particularly suitable for printing. The unusual material has a thickness of 1.4 mm with a grammage of 575 gsm. This cardboard is made of shredded wood with a slightly yellowish colour, which is caused by the amount of lignin in the cardboard. This makes your postcards particularly stable.
250 g/m² Coated art paper
350 g/m² Coated art paper
400 g/m² Coated art cardboard
750 g/m² Luxecore Chamois
750 g/m² Luxecore Linen ribbed
750 g/m² Luxecore Bright white
750 g/m² Luxecore Linen structure
300 g/m² Felt marked uncoated paper
575 g/m² Groundwood pulp board
Refine postcards after printing – options with print24k
If you are a reseller and want to create high-quality cards for your customers or have classy postcards printed for events such as weddings and anniversaries, you should refine the surface.
The blind embossing is very elegant and unobtrusive. We can use it, for example, to print year numbers or initials as deep or high embossing.
To make the surface of the postcard more robust and stable, a cellophane coating is ideal. The foil laminated onto the card is available in matt, gloss, linen texture or soft touch.
In the truest sense of the word, a highlight of your postcards are elements that you refine with hot foil or hot foil relief embossing. The embossed motifs or texts are additionally embossed with a foil in gold, silver, copper, bronze, red or blue.
If you want to give your cards an exclusive glossy effect, it is best to choose UV surface varnish. Individual details can be highlighted with UV spot varnish or relief varnish.
If you wish, we can also combine various paper finishes for you. Please refer to the configurator to see which exciting combinations are possible.
A protective varnish makes your product more resistant to wear and tear, more attractive to the touch and even more appealing to the eye. That’s why a protective coating is the recommended finish for postcards, for example.
With blind embossing, you can highlight a motif vividly. If you choose a high embossing, your motif will be displayed in a raised position, if you choose a deep embossing, the motif will be imprinted as a dent in your printed product.
With laminating, a wafer-thin film is applied to your printed product. This gives your printed product a higher quality and at the same time makes it more robust.
Hot foil stamping uses pressure and heat to apply coatings from a carrier foil to your printed product. This allows you to enhance your print product with metallic effects, for example.
Hot foil relief stamping is a combination of relief stamping and hot foil stamping and combines visual and tactile effects.
With relief varnish you can highlight certain areas of your printed product both visually and haptically, these are printed glossy and elevated.
With UV surface varnishing, an additional layer of varnish is applied to your printed product, which gives it additional protection and makes it look even higher quality.
With UV spot varnishing, the varnish is applied only partially. This allows you to highlight certain areas of your product both visually and haptically.
What printing options are available for postcard creation?
By default, we use the CMYK four-colour process to print on your postcards. It is used to produce photos, graphics or illustrations in any possible colour.
The combination of CMYK / Black with Pantone ensures consistent results. If you want a full-surface paint application, it is best to use special colours. Thanks to the unique colour code, colour deviations are excluded.
After printing, we cut your postcards to size. Optionally, we can round off the corners. If you want to send your postcards as folding cards, attendance cards or vouchers, we can also insert groove or perforation lines. From a grammage of 170 gsm, we recommend creasing folding cards anyway.
As a special highlight, we offer two options for printing gold or silver inks. First the classical method in offset printing and second in digital printing. With the latter, it is also possible to use with small print runs. Printing of Gold Digital/Silver Digital is done using metallic toner with special pigments that create a reflection. As a result, it is in no way inferior to offset printing and enables metallic effects even in gradations.
With the “Gold/Silver Digital” option, four-colour printing can be enhanced with gold and silver at the same time! The luxurious silver and gold decorations complete your professional appearance. Whether delicate highlights or full-surface printing – silver and gold inks can mean the difference between just looking at and wanting to keep.