Luxury Business Cards

A luxury business card changes how the card feels before anyone reads it. That usually means three things: a heavy stock (32pt or more, ideally cotton), a pressed process such as die-stamped hot foil, letterpress or a blind deboss, and a finished edge, either painted, gilded or a coloured core. A thick card with flat digital print is premium. Add a process you can feel with your thumb, and it becomes luxury.

The best luxury business cards pair one pressed process with a stock chosen for it. Three builds cover most briefs: 32pt cotton with one die-stamped hot foil, the all-rounder; 48pt cotton letterpress, the deepest bite and the quietest look; and black-coated steel, the heaviest and the most expensive. If you add only one thing to a card, make it a process you can feel. That's what separates luxury from merely thick.

Check four things rather than trusting a label. Is the foil die-stamped, or digital foil fused to toner? Is the letterpress a real impression, or print plus a deboss? Can the thickest stock take a finish, or is it print-only? And does a person check your file before the proof, or only software? The printers that answer yes to the real process and the human check are the ones making high quality cards. We do all four on Custom orders. For named comparisons, see Peppermint vs MOO vs Vistaprint.

They are when the card gets handed over in person and kept. A 48pt letterpress card costs about 1,36 USD each at 250, against roughly 0,23 USD for a standard 16pt card. If you hand out a few hundred a year to people you want to hear from again, that difference is small. If cards go into a fishbowl at a trade show, buy the standard card.

A standard card is 14–16pt coated stock, printed and cut. Premium usually means a heavier or better-coated stock made quickly: 18–32pt, soft touch or silk, sometimes raised foil or raised UV. Luxury means a process you can feel, such as die-stamped foil, letterpress, deboss or a painted edge, on a stock chosen for it, often 32pt or 48pt cotton. On our site, premium lives in the Standard lane and luxury in the Custom lane.

It depends on the build. A standard 16pt card runs about 70 USD for 500. A thick Standard card such as our triplex black core is 126 USD. Custom cotton with one hot foil colour is 410 USD, and 48pt letterpress is 535 USD. Metal costs several times more. The cost table on this page shows every build at 250, 500 and 1,000.

Metal is the most expensive card most people will buy. Stainless steel is laser engraved, etched or cut card by card, so the cost scales with quantity in a way paper doesn't. Our custom metal cards start at 230 USD for five. On paper, cost comes from stacking processes: every foil colour on every side is its own die and press pass, and a painted edge or a second bonded sheet adds another step.

Up to a point. Weight is the first thing a hand notices, and 32pt (about 0.8 mm, close to a credit card) is where a card starts to feel substantial. Our thickest paper build is 48pt cotton, about 1.2 mm: dramatic, and a little much for some wallets. Duplex and triplex builds bond two or three sheets with a visible seam or coloured core. Past 32pt, a process you can feel does more than extra thickness. See thick business cards for every option.

Custom cards take about three weeks after you approve the proof, plus transit. Standard cards ship in 3–4 business days after proof approval, plus transit. These are estimates, not guaranteed delivery dates. For a fixed event, approve your proof at least four weeks ahead, and tell us the date when you send the brief.

Yes. The sample pack holds real production cards across our papers and finishes, from both Standard and Custom, plus a hot foil swatch card with 40 stamped foils. It's 8 USD with free shipping within the continental US.

Yes. Our business card artwork service lays out both sides around the actual size, stock and finish, with press-ready separations for each foil, plate and edge colour. If you already have a design, or an AI mockup, a person rebuilds it for the process and marks every change on the proof. Fine lines are thickened to what foil can hold, and small text moves to ink where needed.

NFC cards are the main alternative: tap the card to a phone and it opens your contact page or website, with no app needed. Many people now carry both. Our NFC cards come in plastic, wood and metal, starting at 149 USD for 25. Metal blocks the signal, so NFC metal cards use a steel face with a plastic back. A printed card still gets kept on a desk; a tap only lives in a phone.

Yes, we ship worldwide. Transit times vary by destination, and shipping is included on Custom orders. Tell us your in-hand date in the brief and we'll say honestly whether it's realistic.