[Beneddie1112]

Hey,
This question isn't strictly business related as I'm not thinking of doing it as a business, But though it could be beneficial to people.

How exactly are business cards printed? What machinery is used?

Sorry to sound nosy, Just interested,

Cheers,
Ben

[Sue]

Right at the start of her business my mum in law printed her own cards using her computer, a printer and a pack of pre perforated cards held together in an A4 sheet (hope that makes sense).

But I imagine that professional companies print a specific sized sheet with the repeat design (lets say A4 for the sake of argument) then a machine chops the individual cards with a grid cutter (again hope this makes sense ... tired and shouldn't really be twittering on but I've started now ).

[Beneddie1112]

Thanks for the reply! I was talking in the commercial sense of printing by the way, Sorry for not mentioning at the beginning .

Cheers,
Ben

[deviltronics]

Ask Ray, he's is a pro with paper and ink

[Beneddie1112]

Any of the pro's on yet?

[JohnG]

Ask Pete at PVCprinting, he does it digitally and can even do you a one off if you want.

[RayB]

We use a £500,000 Ryobi Printing Press fed with plates from £80,000 worth of Screen Computer to Plate (CTP) equipment and the Business Cards are trimmed on £30,000 worth of Schneider Guillotine.

That said, a £100,000 digital press could do the job as well

[Beneddie1112]

I take it that isn't one of the Ryobi 2 or 4 colour presses?

[RayB]

No, it's a Ryobi 755 - 5 colour plus coater B2 - we fit 50 sets of Business Cards on one SRA2 size sheet print run using this monster

[Beneddie1112]

Do you have any experience with the Ryobi 2 colour? Saw one going cheap as bankrupt stock ,

Cheers,
Ben