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Which stock should you choose?

Four boards, four different jobs. Tap any one to find out more, or order one card on each and hold them.

A low-sheen coated board that makes photos and flat colour look crisp. Coated both sides, so write inside with a biro, fineliner or gel pen: a fountain pen will smudge on it. The one most people order.

Best forPhoto cards, bold flat colour, corporate runs.

An uncoated recycled board with a slight natural tooth. Colours print a shade softer, which is the point: it looks and feels like a card from a proper card shop, and it takes any pen, pencil or ink you own.

Best forIllustration, cards to sell, anything hand-signed.

Silk-style depth on the cover, plain paper feel on the inside, so the whole office can sign it with whatever is in the drawer. Same price as the silk.

Best forCorporate Christmas cards, handwritten messages inside.

Fedrigoni’s gesso board with a fine chalky surface you can feel across the room. Ink sits soft on it, so it flatters illustration and photography and is less kind to tiny type and big flat solids. About a quarter more, and looks it.

Best forLuxury brands, wedding and event stationery, artists’ editions.
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Same day London from £45
Free collection from SE1
Next day delivery £6.99
DPD pre-10am £19.99
Saturday delivery £19.99

Up to 500 cards go the same day. 1,000 is next working day. 2,500 and up is three working days. Envelopes are in the box.

Greetings Cards

📢 Fast, Professional Greeting Cards – Same-Day in London & Next-Day UK Delivery Whether you're sending Christmas cards, thank you cards, birthday cards or bespoke greeting cards, our print service delivers luxury, personalised greeting cards at lightning speed—complete with free premium envelopes. 💌✨
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One PDF per size and fold, two pages each: the outside spread and the inside. Bleed, safe area and the crease are drawn on. Design over the guides, hide them, export a PDF.

  • A6Long edge foldFolded 105 x 148mm
    Flat 210 x 148mm + 3mm bleed
    Two pages: outside, inside    Template PDF
  • A6Short edge foldFolded 105 x 148mm
    Flat 105 x 296mm + 3mm bleed
    Two pages: outside, inside    Template PDF
  • A5Long edge foldFolded 148 x 210mm
    Flat 296 x 210mm + 3mm bleed
    Two pages: outside, inside    Template PDF
  • A5Short edge foldFolded 148 x 210mm
    Flat 148 x 420mm + 3mm bleed
    Two pages: outside, inside    Template PDF
  • 105 squareLeft foldFolded 105 x 105mm
    Flat 210 x 105mm + 3mm bleed
    Two pages: outside, inside    Template PDF
  • 148 squareLeft foldFolded 148 x 148mm
    Flat 296 x 148mm + 3mm bleed
    Two pages: outside, inside    Template PDF
  • 210 squareLeft foldFolded 210 x 210mm
    Flat 420 x 210mm + 3mm bleed
    Two pages: outside, inside    Template PDF
Artwork specs for every product No design software? Send us the artwork and the words

Splitting a run? One PDF per design, two pages each. Short edge fold: the back panel prints upside down on the outside spread, so it reads the right way once the card is folded. The template shows you where.

RECYCLED SILKRECYCLED PULPOMEGATINTORETTO GESSOFOUR STOCKS, DRAWN TO SCALE AT A6
Folded, enveloped, printed in London

Cards people keep.

Folded greeting cards on four proper stocks, creased, with an envelope for every card in the box. Christmas cards for the client list, thank-yous, launches, or a run of your own designs to sell. Order by 3pm and up to 500 cards are printed today, in SE1, not shipped in from a unit off the M1.

Upload one design or up to ten and we split the run evenly between them. Order one card to hold the stock in your hand, or ten thousand for the shops. Same paper, same press, same people checking the file.

4 stocks5 sizesenvelopes includedsplit up to 10 designsfrom 1 cardup to 10,000same day by 3pm

How to order: pick a size, a stock and a quantity above for a live price, then upload your artwork: two pages per design, outside and inside. No artwork? Send us the words and a logo and we'll lay it out and send you a proof. Either way, a person checks the file before any card runs.

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Four stocks. No filler.

Pick your paper.

Two recycled boards, one coated-outside-only board for the corporate crowd, and one Italian showpiece. Not sure? Order one card on each for the price of a coffee and hold them.

Recycled Silk
350gsm

A low-sheen coated board that makes photos and flat colour look crisp. Both sides are coated, so the inside is silky too: a biro or a fineliner writes on it cleanly, a fountain pen will smudge. The one most people order.

Biro or fineliner insidePhoto cards, bold flat colour, corporate runs
Recycled Pulp
350gsm

An uncoated recycled board with a slight natural texture. Colours print a shade softer and flatter than silk, which is exactly the point: it looks and feels like a card from a proper card shop. Takes every pen, pencil and ink you own.

Any pen, inside and outIllustration, letterpress-style design, cards to sell
Omega
350gsm

Coated on the outside so your cover prints with full silk-style depth, uncoated on the inside so the message writes like paper. The same idea printed.com sells as TruCard, priced the same as our silk here.

Any pen inside, coated outsideCorporate Christmas cards, anything with a handwritten note inside
Tintoretto Gesso
300gsm · +25%

Fedrigoni's hammered gesso board, warm white with a fine chalky surface you can feel across the room. Ink sits soft on it, so it flatters illustration and photography and is less kind to tiny type and big flat solids. Costs about a quarter more than the other three and looks it.

Any pen, inside and outLuxury brands, wedding and event stationery, artists' editions

All four are 300 to 350gsm, which is proper card-shop weight: they stand up on a shelf on their own. Recycled Silk and Recycled Pulp are 100% recycled fibre. Every card is creased before it is folded, so the spine stays clean on the heavy boards.

Five sizes • envelopes to fit

Pick your size.

Drawn to scale below. A6 is the one most people send. The squares are the ones people keep.

A6105 x 148mm105 square105 x 105mm148 square148 x 148mmA5148 x 210mm210 square210 x 210mm149mm biro, for scale
SizeFlat sheetEnvelopeGood for50 on Recycled SilkArtwork
A6105 x 148mm folded210 x 148mm, long edge fold or short edge foldC6 envelope (114 x 162mm)The classic. Fits a C6 envelope and a standard letter stamp.£27.18£32.62 inc VATLong edge PDF · Short edge PDF
105 square105 x 105mm folded210 x 105mm, left foldsquare envelope to fitSmall, chunky and cheap to post. Good for thank-yous and gift tags with a message.£27.18£32.62 inc VATTemplate PDF
148 square148 x 148mm folded296 x 148mm, left fold155 square envelopeThe card-shop square. Still goes as a standard letter.£30.85£37.02 inc VATTemplate PDF
A5148 x 210mm folded296 x 210mm, long edge fold or short edge foldC5 envelope (162 x 229mm)Big enough for a message from the whole team, or a folded price list.£34.52£41.42 inc VATLong edge PDF · Short edge PDF
210 square210 x 210mm folded420 x 210mm, left fold220 square envelopeA statement card. Posts as a large letter, so send it in person or by courier.£48.38£58.06 inc VATTemplate PDF

Long edge or short edge? Long edge fold is the portrait card that opens like a book. Short edge fold is landscape and opens from the top. Same price, same paper. Squares fold on the left.

Posting them? A6, A5 and 148 square go as a standard letter. 210 square is a large letter. Kraft envelopes are an upgrade on the configurator; white are in the price.

Every quantity, ex VAT, envelopes in

What it costs.

Pick a stock and a size. Prices are per run with white envelopes included; kraft is the second column. The configurator at the top of the page is the live price.

A6 on Recycled Silk
one card from £6.00
CardsWhite envelopesKraft envelopesPer card
1sample£6.00£7.20 inc VAT£7.20£8.64 inc VAT£6.00 each
2£8.00£9.60 inc VAT£9.60£11.52 inc VAT£4.00 each
5£12.00£14.40 inc VAT£14.40£17.28 inc VAT£2.40 each
10£18.00£21.60 inc VAT£21.60£25.92 inc VAT£1.80 each
25£24.00£28.80 inc VAT£28.80£34.56 inc VAT96p each
50£27.18£32.62 inc VAT£32.62£39.14 inc VAT54p each
100popular£33.73£40.48 inc VAT£40.48£48.58 inc VAT34p each
250£43.08£51.70 inc VAT£51.70£62.04 inc VAT17p each
500£64.27£77.12 inc VAT£77.12£92.54 inc VAT13p each
1,000trade run£106.39£127.67 inc VAT£127.67£153.20 inc VAT11p each
2,500£209.30£251.16 inc VAT£251.16£301.39 inc VAT8.4p each
5,000£339.25£407.10 inc VAT£407.10£488.52 inc VAT6.8p each
7,500£462.30£554.76 inc VAT£554.76£665.71 inc VAT6.2p each
10,000£575.00£690.00 inc VAT£690.00£828.00 inc VAT5.8p each

Per card is the white-envelope price divided by the quantity. Up to 500 cards: same day. 1,000: next working day. 2,500 and up: three working days. Delivery is extra: £6.99 next day UK, free collection from SE1.

One order, up to ten designs

Split the run.

100 cardsone order25design 125design 225design 325design 4
  • Even splits only. 100 cards as 4 designs is 25 each. 500 as 5 is 100 each. One price, one box, each design bundled separately.
  • Pick 1, 2, 4, 5 or 10 designs on the configurator, then upload one two-page PDF per design.
  • Want 60 of one and 40 of another? That's two orders. The second one takes a minute, and you still get the quantity price on each.
  • Built for a range. Ten designs at 25 each is 250 cards for the fair. Reorder the two that sold out on Monday, have them Tuesday.

Which quantities split how: 25 into 5; 50 into 2, 5 or 10; 100 into 2, 4, 5 or 10; 250 into 2, 5 or 10; 500 and 1,000 into any of them.

Illustrators, designers, small brands

Print them. Sell them.

If you draw, this is the product the rest of the page is really about. Prices are shown per card as well as per run, so the margin sum takes ten seconds. Order one of each stock to choose, then ten designs at 25 each to test at the market, then a thousand of the one that flies.

The pulp and the gesso are the ones makers pick: uncoated, tactile, they look hand-made even at a thousand. And because we print in London, a sell-out on Saturday is back in stock by Tuesday, not in three weeks.

Selling into shops or a wholesaler? Trade quantities run to 10,000 on the configurator. For cello bags, belly bands or delivery straight to a stockist, email us the details.

The margin sum
1,000 A6 cards on Recycled Silk, envelopes in£106.39
That's per card, ex VAT11p
Sold at a fair for£3.00
Takings on the run£3,000

Same run on Tintoretto Gesso: £132.99, or 13p a card. Kraft envelopes add 20%. VAT at 20% on top of the print.

In a year of inboxes

Why cards still matter.

Nobody has ever pinned an e-card to a wall.

The average inbox takes two hundred emails a day and keeps none of them. A card is opened, read, and stood on a shelf where it does its job for a month. It is the only marketing your customers will thank you for.

A card gets opened. Every time.

An email is one of two hundred. A card is the only thing on the mat, and it stays on the desk or the mantelpiece for weeks, doing its job every time someone walks past.

It's the print your customers keep.

A brochure gets filed. A card with a real signature inside gets kept, and it's the cheapest piece of print you'll send all year.

Small runs let you test, then reorder.

Ten designs, 25 of each, at the fair on Saturday. Reorder the two that sold out on Monday and have them Tuesday. That's how a range gets built.

Two pages per design

Set up the artwork.

  1. Pick the template

    Download the PDF for your size and fold. The bleed, the safe area and the fold are already drawn on it. Open it in Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Canva or Photoshop.

  2. Design the outside

    Page 1 is the outside of the card. On a long edge fold the front is the right half and the back is the left half. On a short edge fold the front is the bottom half and the back is the top half, printed upside down so it reads the right way once folded.

  3. Design the inside

    Page 2 is the inside spread. Leave it blank for a handwritten message, print a short greeting, or fill it. It prints exactly what you send.

  4. Check the edges

    Backgrounds run 3mm past the trim into the bleed. Text and logos stay 5mm inside the trim and 5mm off the fold. Nothing important sits on the crease.

  5. Export and upload

    Export a PDF with the guides hidden, CMYK, 300dpi, two pages per design. One PDF per design if you are splitting a run. Our preflight checks it and shows you a proof before we print.

Grab the template → The full artwork spec
Printed in SE1 • three ways to get it

Delivery that suits you.

Same Day Delivery
London · from £45

Order by 3pm, select same day at checkout and up to 500 cards are couriered to you that afternoon, anywhere across London.

Next Day Delivery
UK-wide · £6.99

Order by 3pm and it's with you next working day via DPD, tracked to the door. Pre-10am and Saturday are £19.99.

Collection in SE1
Same day · free

Order by 3pm and collect that afternoon from 27 Tabard Street, two minutes from Borough tube. Weekdays only. The kettle's usually on.

Bigger runs take a little longer: 1,000 cards are next working day, 2,500 and up are three working days. Cutoffs for every product are on the same day cutoff times page.

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Why print with Rapid

Reasons to buy.

Artwork checked by a human
Every file · checked

Drawn in Procreate, built in Canva, exported from PowerPoint, we don't judge. Preflight checks the file and shows you a proof, then a person looks at it before a single card runs.

Printed here, not shipped in
SE1 · same day

The press is a two-minute walk from Borough tube. Order by 3pm and collect this afternoon. If we get it wrong, we put it right.

Test small, reorder fast
From one card

Order one to hold the stock, ten designs at 25 to test a range, a thousand of the winner. Recycled boards as standard, paper envelopes, and the offcuts go back in the recycling.

Stocks • artwork • speed

Greeting card FAQs

Recycled Silk is smooth and coated both sides, sharp colour, the default. Recycled Pulp is uncoated with a light texture, softer colour, feels like a card-shop card. Omega is coated on the outside and uncoated inside, so the cover prints rich and the message writes like paper. Tintoretto Gesso is an Italian hammered board, off-white, luxurious, about a quarter more. Not sure? Order one of each for a few pounds and hold them.
All four, with one caveat. Pulp, Omega and Gesso are uncoated inside and take any pen. Silk is coated inside, so use a biro, a fineliner or a gel pen: fountain pen and wet ink will smudge on it. If everyone in the office is going to sign the card, pick Omega or Pulp.
Five: A6, A5, 105 square, 148 square and 210 square. A6 and 148 square go as a standard letter. 210 square posts as a large letter, so it suits hand delivery or a courier. Envelopes to fit are in the box for every size.
Long edge fold is the classic portrait card that opens like a book. Short edge fold is landscape and opens from the top like a tent. Same price, same paper, just pick the one your design was drawn for. Square cards fold on the left.
Yes. Every card is creased and folded before it goes in the box, with an envelope for each one. White envelopes are included in the price. Kraft envelopes are an upgrade on the configurator.
Upload two, four, five or ten designs and we split the quantity evenly between them. 500 cards across five designs is 100 of each: one order, one price, one box. The split has to be even, so 100 cards can be 1, 2, 4, 5 or 10 designs but not 3. Want 60 of one and 40 of another? That's two orders, and the second one is only a minute more.
Two pages per design: page 1 is the outside spread, page 2 is the inside. Download the template for your size, design over it, hide the guides, export a PDF in CMYK at 300dpi. Keep backgrounds 3mm past the trim and text 5mm inside it. Splitting a run? One PDF per design. The five steps above walk through it, and our preflight shows you a proof before anything prints.
Yes. Plenty of cards are printed on the outside only and left blank inside for a handwritten message. Send page 2 blank, or tell us in the notes and we'll set it that way.
Not through this product, which prints the same design on every card in each split. For names, addresses or a message that changes card by card, email hello@rapidprintpro.com with the list and we'll quote it as a personalised run.
Order by 3pm Monday to Friday and up to 500 cards are printed the same day: collect from SE1 that afternoon or courier across London. 1,000 cards are next working day. 2,500 and up are three working days. Next day UK delivery is £6.99.
Yes, from £6 with an envelope. It's the cheapest way to check a stock and a design before you commit to a run, and a lot of makers order one of each stock first.
Yes, up to 10,000 on the configurator and more by email. Split a run across up to ten designs, order 1 or 2 of a new design to test it, then reorder the ones that sell. Prices are shown per card as well as per run, so the margin sum is easy. For cello bags, belly bands or delivery straight to a stockist, email hello@rapidprintpro.com.
Yes. Greeting cards are standard rated, so VAT at 20% is added at checkout. The tables on this page show both.
Recycled Silk and Recycled Pulp are made from 100% recycled fibre. Omega and Tintoretto Gesso are virgin fibre from certified, responsibly managed sources. All four are recyclable, and the envelopes are paper.
Our preflight checks every upload for size, bleed, resolution and colour and shows you a proof. A person looks at it too before it prints. If something needs fixing you'll hear from us first, not find out when the box arrives.
We print right up to the week before Christmas. Order by 3pm and up to 500 cards go the same day, so the last safe day is the day before your posting deadline. Check the Royal Mail last posting dates and give yourself a day to write them.

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