Frequently Asked Questions: Business Cards

What design should I choose?

The first thing you should think of is the general idea if your business, which should be based on main principles of your way of doing business. When thinking of what your design should look like, consider the following:

1. The colors you use. Different colors convey different kinds of emotions. Red color is energy and power, blue is the color of the ocean and different shades of blue may convey stillness or storm.
2. The logo of your company is important as well. The general impression of you logo can be aggressive, refined, generous or soft. The idea you want to deliver should determine your logo.
3. The design your competitors use is a hint to your own design. It doesn't mean that you should do as your rivals do, no, by analyzing designs of your competitors you can come up with a clear idea of your own design.

To put it simply, you can choose any design you want and you think your customers will like.
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What is CMYK?

CMYK [si: em wai kei] stands for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black. 
It is the way of printing based on the abovementioned four colors. These four colors when combined produce thousands of colors and shades. For apparent reason these type of printing is called four-color printing.

CMYK is the most popular color model, which is used for full-color printing.

What resolution is preferable to make business cards look correctly?

600 DPI resolution is advisable if you want your business card look fantastic. 300 DPI resolution is also okay to print business cards of good quality, however, business cards printed with such resolution may turn out to be blurry.

Why does it happen that some colors look differently on screen than what was printed?

In is a common problem when the printout looks differently from the design on the screen. The thing is that computer do not use CMYK color model. Computers use RGB. Computer-generated images must be converted into CMYK, since RGB is not appropriate for printing.

These differences result in the contrast we have between the design on screen and the printout.