Business Cards Printing Belfast

Business card printing in Belfast: premium stocks, professional finish, free NI delivery

A well-printed business card still does a job no LinkedIn handle can match. It moves from your hand to someone else's, sits in their wallet for weeks, and quietly signals everything about your business that they would otherwise have to take on faith. We print business cards in Belfast every week for founders, sales teams, professional services firms and trades. The defaults are 450gsm silk with matt lamination, but every card is configurable: stock, finish, corners, sides, finishing. Free file check on every order, free NI delivery, free reprint if you are not happy.

The three business card products we print

Most customers want our standard business cards, but two specialist formats are worth knowing about before you order. Standard business cards are the workhorse: 450gsm silk or 350gsm uncoated, full lamination options, from 50 cards. Folded business cards have a scored fold that gives four printable sides instead of two: enough room for a portfolio shot, a mini menu, an opening hours panel. Uncoated business cards are the same 350gsm board with no lamination, ideal for hospitality and traditional industries where the card needs to be writeable.

Choosing your paper stock

The decision between 450gsm silk and 350gsm uncoated comes down to what you want the card to feel like in someone's hand and what you want it to do. 450gsm silk is heavy, smooth, and takes lamination beautifully. Colours print brighter and sharper. The card feels substantial in a way thinner stocks cannot match. Use it when you want the card to signal premium quality at first touch, which is most professional contexts.

350gsm uncoated is thinner, lighter, with a natural fibre surface that takes pen ink without smudging. Colours print slightly softer because the surface is more absorbent, which can be a feature rather than a bug if your brand favours muted or earthy palettes. Use it for hospitality, traditional industries, and any context where the card needs to be writeable. For a deeper walk through paper stocks, see our paper stock guide and what GSM means in print.

Lamination options: matt, gloss and soft-touch

Lamination is a thin clear film bonded to the printed card. It changes how the card feels, how light reflects off it, and how durable it is. Matt lamination gives a non-shiny finish that reduces glare. Premium feel, fingerprint-resistant, lets photographs and detailed graphics breathe. The most popular choice for professional services. Gloss lamination delivers high-shine, vivid colours, photographs pop. Common in retail, beauty and creative industries where a bold visual identity needs to land hard. Soft-touch lamination has a velvety, almost rubbery feel that signals premium the moment someone holds the card. Slightly more expensive, but the tactile difference is the most-noticed detail in our experience. For a side-by-side, see matt vs gloss vs soft-touch lamination.

Pricing examples

Pricing depends on stock, lamination, quantity and turnaround. Live pricing appears in the configurator the moment you choose your options. As a guide, 100 standard 450gsm silk cards with matt lamination and free NI delivery start from around £19.99 including VAT. Volume discounts apply automatically: 500 cards cost less than five times the price of 100, and 1,000 cards is a substantial step down on per-card cost. There is no surcharge for double-sided print.

Setting up artwork for print-ready business cards

The five rules that prevent every common mistake: supply a print-ready PDF (Illustrator, InDesign or Affinity Designer export); 300dpi resolution at finished size (85mm x 55mm); CMYK colour mode (RGB will be converted with unpredictable colour shifts); 3mm bleed on every edge with crop marks turned on; critical content (text you want fully visible) at least 5mm from the trim edge. For double-sided cards, supply both sides as separate PDFs or as pages 1 and 2 of a single multi-page PDF. Outline your fonts before exporting to prevent missing-font issues. Every file gets a free pre-press check before production starts. For more detail, see our artwork guidelines, the bleed and safe zone guide, and CMYK vs RGB explained.

What makes a business card worth keeping in 2026

The cards people actually keep have one thing in common: they tell you something the contact's email signature cannot. The architect with an embossed paper card from her own buildings collection. The chef whose card folds out into a recipe. The consultant whose card opens with a question, not a job title. None of these depend on a big budget. They depend on someone treating the card as a small piece of design work, not a checkbox. For more on designing cards that get kept rather than binned, see how to design a business card that gets kept and 5 business card design tips.

Why local printing matters for business cards

Business cards from a mainland printer typically ship in 5 to 7 working days minimum, with no option to collect or fix anything on the same day. Local production in Belfast means shorter total turnaround, the option to walk in if your job is unusual, owner-led quality check before despatch, and a faster reprint if anything's wrong. We back every business card order with the Papercut Promise: not happy with the result, free reprint, no questions.