Lanyard Cards

Technical Specification For Lanyard Cards

• Finished size is 86 x 54mm (92 x 60mm with 3mm bleed) with a corner radius of 3 mm.

• Include 3mm bleed on all sides

• Foiling cannot be placed outside of the 3mm safe zone

• Foil artwork must be supplied as a vector artwork

• Supply as a CMYK PDF, preferably in PDF/X1a format

• Outline or embed fonts

• 300dpi resolution

• The minimum font size for Foiling elements is 10pt and line thicknesses should be at least 1pt.

If you are printing single-sided only then a 2-page PDF is required:

• Page 1 is CMYK artwork.

• Page 2 is an empty page, which can be found in our templates.

If you are printing a double-sided card with Foil please submit a 4-page PDF:

• Page 1 is the front of the artwork

• Page 2 is the back of the artwork

• Page 3 is the foil artwork for the front

• Page 4 is blank.

The Foil artwork should contain solid black shapes in the exact position where the special finish is required. Please ensure Foil artwork is supplied as a vector and 100% black only and does not contain any cyan, magenta or yellow. 

Please note: Foil application has registration tolerances of approximately ±0.5 mm. It is not, therefore, recommended that small text or thin lines are foiled as perfect register cannot be guaranteed. The minimum font size is 10pt and line weights should be at least 1pt.¬¬ You should not represent your foiling artwork on the CMYK print artwork ...