Business Cards
Which range is yours?
Everything we print is 85 × 55mm, full colour, single or double sided, and out the door the same day. The only real decision is whether you want the classic premium finish or a card where the material itself is the message.
Three 400gsm stocks and the option of a soft touch velvet finish. Colour sits crisp, photos stay sharp, and the card feels properly substantial in the hand. If you’re not sure, this is the one.
- 400gsm Recycled Silk — smooth, colour-led, our all-rounder
- 400gsm Brown Kraft — thick and textured
- 400gsm Off White Textured — understated and tactile
- Soft touch velvet lamination available
Cards made from things that were something else first — coffee cups saved from landfill, and seaweed. They look and feel different on purpose, and they start a conversation before anyone reads a word.
- 400gsm Recycled Coffee Cup — off-white, great texture
- 350gsm Bio Seaweed — Notpla, fully biodegradable
- 400gsm Brown Kraft — thick, natural, black-ink led
- No lamination — nothing to stop it breaking down
Every card we print.
Six stocks across the two ranges. The honest version of what each one does — including which ones don’t like colour, because that’s the thing nobody tells you until the cards arrive.
A smooth silk coating that makes colour pop and keeps photos crisp. The only stock here that handles full-colour photography properly, and the one we’d point most people to.
A natural tactile texture you feel before you read it. Colour prints soft and matte, which flatters muted palettes and clean type rather than fighting them.
A velvet lamination over the Silk. Adds durability and scuff resistance and makes dark, minimal designs look expensive. It softens very bright colours slightly — usually in a good way.
Super thick with a proper texture. Stick to black ink — CMYK laid over a brown surface distorts, but blacks come out true and punchy. Design for that and it’s superb.
Disposable coffee cups headed for landfill, turned into paper. Slightly off-white with a lovely texture, and unusually for a recycled stock, colours come out punchy.
Notpla seaweed paper — 30% seaweed, 60% post-consumer waste, completely biodegradable and recyclable. Grey with green and brown flecks. Black-only designs look sensational on it.
No artwork? Start with a template.
Most people who need cards today have no artwork and no designer. So pick a design, edit it in your browser, drop in your name, number and logo, and order it. Ten minutes start to finish — and it still makes the 3pm cutoff.
Pick a design. All 85 × 55mm and already set up properly — bleed, safe margins, the lot.
Edit it online in the browser. Your details, your colours, your logo. Nothing to download.
Order it. A human still checks the file before it prints, same as uploaded artwork.
Soft, clean, elegant. Built for salons, aesthetics and therapists — anyone whose brand should feel calm rather than loud.
Bold and playful, personality up front. Suits nail techs, barbers and independent trades who want to be remembered.
Structured, modern, confident. The safe pick for consultants, agencies and B2B — smart without trying too hard.
Hand-drawn and characterful. Right for creatives, makers, coffee and food — anything that shouldn’t look corporate.
Order by 3pm. Pick your speed.
Cards are printed, trimmed and packed at 27 Tabard Street, SE1 — two minutes from Borough tube. Nothing here is outsourced and nothing here is a two-week lead time.
Order by 3pm and collect the same day. We email an exact collection time so you’re not hanging about — and we’ll put the kettle on.
Order by 3pm, pick same day at checkout, and we’re on the bike. Anywhere across London, typically within an hour and a half.
Order by 3pm and it’s with you tomorrow via DPD, tracked to the door, anywhere in the UK.
On the desk before the day starts. The one for a morning pitch you found out about last night.
Because weekend events exist. Order by 3pm Friday and it lands Saturday.
Rounded corners, die-cut shapes, spot UV, matt and gloss lamination. Email us with your deadline — these take longer than 3pm.
No drama, no surprises.
Adobe, Canva, Paint — we don’t judge. Our artwork team re-sets every file and tells you before anything prints if something needs fixing. Low res logo, no bleed, text on the trim: we catch it.
There is no flimsy option to accidentally pick. Every card on both ranges is 350–400gsm, so whatever you choose feels like it cost more than it did.
Only FSC-accredited paper from responsibly managed forests — on the standard range as well as the eco one. Good print, clear conscience, and no reprint charge if we get it wrong.
Business card FAQs
- Order before 3pm and collect the same day, usually in about 2 hours — free
- Or take same day delivery across London from £45, about 90 minutes
- The jump from 100 to 500 is smaller than most people expect, because the setup cost is identical either way. Check both before you decide.
- Eco costs more because the materials genuinely cost more — seaweed paper and recycled coffee cup stock aren’t commodity board.
- With bleed: set your document to 91 × 61mm
- Keep text 3mm inside the 85 × 55mm trim
- Standard (from £39) — Recycled Silk, Off White Textured or Brown Kraft, with optional soft touch velvet. The best choice for colour and photography.
- Eco (from £55) — Recycled Coffee Cup, Notpla Seaweed or Brown Kraft. No lamination, because nothing should stop it breaking down. The material is the message.
- Recycled Coffee Cup — made from disposable paper coffee cups that were heading to landfill. Slightly off-white, lovely texture.
- Bio Seaweed — Notpla paper, 30% seaweed and 60% post-consumer waste, completely biodegradable and recyclable.
- Brown Kraft — thick, natural, unbleached.
- Full-colour photography or bright branding → 400gsm Recycled Silk, every time
- Black-led or minimal branding → Kraft, Seaweed or Off White Textured — blacks come out true and punchy
- Want it to feel expensive → Silk with soft touch velvet
- Want it to feel handmade → Coffee Cup or Seaweed
- Start with a template — pick one of our designs and edit it in your browser. Your details, your logo, done in about ten minutes.
- Design it free online from scratch using the tool on the product page.
- Let us design it — email hello@rapidprintpro.com and tell us what you’re after.
- Crop marks aren’t required — welcome if placed correctly, outside the bleed and never inside the finished size
- Thin borders are the riskiest thing on a card. Cards are cut in stacks, stacks move fractionally, and a frame on the trim shows it
- Rounded corners — all four, or just two opposing ones
- Die-cut shapes — circles, squares, lozenges, or cut to follow your graphic
- Spot UV varnish — gloss on selected areas against a matt card. A varnished logo catching the light is the most premium thing you can do to a card.
- Matt and gloss lamination, plus tinted, linen and laid stocks
- Next day — £6.99 via DPD, tracked to the door
- Pre-10am — £19.99 via DPD, on the desk before the day starts
- Saturday — £19.99 — order by 3pm Friday
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Cards rarely travel alone. Everything below runs on the same 3pm cutoff, so add it to the same order and it ships together — one collection, one delivery charge.
A card says who you are, a flyer says what you do. A6 to A4, six stocks, 100 to 5,000.
The step up from a card. One sheet, up to six panels, folded and ready to hand out.
The cheapest branding there is. On the bag, the box, the cup, the laptop — your logo, everywhere.
Doing an event? Cassette and graphic included, up in thirty seconds, packs into its own case.
Meeting tomorrow? Sorted today.
Pick your stock, upload artwork or edit a template, and collect from SE1 in about two hours. Or have it on your desk tomorrow morning for £6.99.