Corporate Invitations and Greeting Cards
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Corporate invitations, greeting cards, and postcards on heavy 350gsm stock in A6, A5, and DL with envelopes, produced same-day at our 24/7 London facility. Same-day and overnight courier delivery is available across London, with frequent deliveries to the City, West End, Canary Wharf and Central London.
Every job is quoted on its specification. Send us yours and we will come back with a firm figure.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Sizes | A6, A5 and DL |
| Stock | 350 gsm, 400 gsm or 450 gsm premium card |
| Finish | Unlaminated, or matt or gloss laminated |
| Covers | Corporate invitations, certificates, wedding stationery, thank-you cards, postcards |
| Turnaround | Same day |
Artwork specifications
Bleed, safe margins, colour, resolution, file format
Preflight your invitation artwork so photographs and crests land sharp.
| Requirement | What we need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Bleed | 3 mm on every edge | With crop marks offset by 3 mm. Anything running off the page has to extend past the trim, or a white hairline appears along the cut edge. |
| Safe margin | Text 5 mm clear of the trim | Trimming moves by a fraction of a millimetre across a run. Type sitting on the trim line will look uneven from copy to copy. |
| Colour mode | CMYK, not RGB | Bright RGB blues and greens sit outside the CMYK gamut and print duller than they look on screen. Send Pantone references for brand colours. |
| Resolution at final size | 300 dpi at the finished size | Measured on the printed piece, not in the file. A 72 dpi web image scaled up stays 72 dpi. |
| File format | PDF preferred — but send what you have | We accept virtually any artwork format and check every file in-house before production. If anything needs adjusting we will tell you immediately, before we print. |
| Fonts | Outlined, or fully embedded | Outlined is safer on urgent work: there is no substitution risk at 3am when nobody is at a desk to answer. |
| Images | Embedded in the PDF | PDF/X-4 embeds everything by default. Linked images that did not travel with the file are a common cause of a job stalling. |
| Transparency | Supported — no need to flatten | PDF/X-4 carries live transparency. Flattening by hand often causes the white boxes and colour shifts it was meant to avoid. |
| Folded cards | Supply as flat single pages, with the fold marked | Front, inside left, inside right, back — as separate pages. We impose the fold. |
Before you upload
- Export as PDF/X-4
- Convert fonts to outlines
- Extend backgrounds into the bleed
- Keep important content inside the safe margin
- Supply images at 300 dpi at the finished size
- Check the page size matches the finished trim size
Send the file even where there is doubt about it. We check bleed, resolution, embedded fonts and page size before anything goes on press, and where a fix is small it is usually just done. A two-minute reply at 9pm is faster than a re-export at 7am.
What turns a same-day job into a next-day one is almost never the printing. It is a question that has to go back to you and sit unanswered — artwork built at the wrong finished size, a logo supplied at screen resolution, or type running off the trim with no bleed behind it. Getting the six points above right removes nearly every one of those.
Cards, envelopes and the size of the run
Stand out with custom Corporate Greeting Cards and Invitations. Whether for a Christmas campaign, a product launch, a milestone birthday or a VIP event invitation, we print high-quality folded cards on 350gsm stock. We supply matching C6 or C5 envelopes with every order, so your mailing is ready to go.
We serve PR agencies and corporate teams in Central London who need short-run, high-impact invites — and the embassies, institutes and private offices of Kensington, where the run is fifty cards rather than five hundred and the stock is the whole point. Unlike bulk offset printers who require weeks, we can produce 50 to 500 cards overnight. We can even print variable addresses on the envelopes to save you time.
The same short runs go to Knightsbridge, where launch invitations are foiled or embossed and the count is fifty rather than five hundred.
At 350gsm the board is stiff enough to crack along the fold if it is simply bent, so every folded card is creased on the machine before folding. That keeps the spine clean and stops the printed surface breaking up along the edge — the one thing that makes a short-run card look home-made.
Q&A
A6 (105x148mm) or A5 (148x210mm) are standard. We can also do DL or square formats.
Yes. We supply matching white C6 or C5 envelopes with every order. Luxury colored envelopes can be sourced on request.
Yes. We can leave the inside blank for writing or print a generic message/logo inside.
Yes. We can print recipient addresses directly onto the envelopes using your mailing list data.
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Send us the job
Tell us the size, the quantity and when you need it. We come back with a firm price, and we check the artwork before anything goes on press.
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