A name card — a namecard, a business card, the same object under three names — is the only thing you make that a stranger holds for six seconds and then decides something. Six seconds is enough for weight, edge, surface and whether the type is sharp. So this page is about the sheet, the finish and the calendar.
EZ Print prints business cards — name cards — in Singapore, and has done since 2017. The Singapore standard trim is 90 × 54 mm with 3 mm bleed, on a 96 × 60 mm artboard. Stocks run 260 gsm to 600 gsm: matt and gloss art card, uncoated natural, cotton, kraft board, textured papers and bonded duplex. Finishing includes lamination, soft-touch, spot UV, hot foil stamping, embossing, letterpress, die cutting and painted edges. Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days, and it is the same window whether the card is plain or carries foil, embossing, letterpress or a painted edge. Express is quoted per job. Minimum run is 50 cards. Every file is checked against the specification before it prints. EZ Print quotes from the specification and does not publish prices.
Products quoted on this page
Specifications, formats and enquiry details for each product quoted on this service.
Everything a brief needs, before anyone picks up a phone
Every figure here is the figure the job works to, not a rounded version of it. The card is drawn at true physical size — hold one you already carry against the screen — with the bleed dashed outside the trim and the safety margin dashed inside it.
Name card · 90 × 54 mm
Bleed line (+3 mm)Actual card size (90 × 54 mm)Safe zone (4 mm inside trim)
Bleed line (+3 mm)Actual card size · 90 × 54 mmSafe zone (4 mm)
EZ Print
Printed to specification
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Drawn at true size — trim 90 × 54 mm, 3 mm bleed dashed outside the trim, 4 mm safety margin dashed inside it.
90 × 54mm
The Singapore standard trim. Drawn on a 96 × 60 mm artboard once 3 mm of bleed is added on all four sides.
Trim size
90 × 54 mm, the Singapore standard. Also 85 × 55 mm European, 89 × 51 mm North American, 55 × 55 mm square and 85 × 27 mm mini.
Bleed and safe area
3 mm bleed on all four sides, 4 mm safe margin in from the trim. Artboard 96 × 60 mm.
Stocks
260–600 gsm — matt and gloss art card, uncoated natural, cotton, kraft board, textured papers, bonded duplex.
Sides and colour
4C/4C or 4C/1C, built in CMYK. Pantone matched on offset runs, simulated on digital.
Minimum run
50 cards. Below 100 the setup dominates the job, so 100 is usually the sensible floor.
Turnaround
Standard is 7–14 working days for every specification on this page. Express is quoted per job.
File format
PDF/X-4 preferred. Illustrator files and packaged InDesign folders accepted. Placed images at 300 dpi at final size.
Delivery
Island-wide courier delivery. Collection can be arranged on request.
What to ask for
500 name cards
350 gsm matt art card
4C/4C
Matt lamination both sides
90 × 54 mm trim, 3 mm bleed
Print-ready PDF supplied
Needed by — your date
The material
Stocks held for name cards
Weight is only half the decision. What the sheet does under your ink, and what it does to a ballpoint pen, is the other half. Each edge below is the real caliper of the weight named, drawn to scale — one millimetre of stock is twenty-two pixels of edge — so a card you can crease and a board you cannot are visibly different objects on this page. Drawings, not photographs. A photograph of paper tells you nothing you can act on. The caliper does.
Matt art card0.36 mm · 350 gsm
Also sold as matt coated card, C2S matt, art card. Held at 310, 350 and 400 gsm.
The default, and the right default. Smooth, slightly warm, no sheen, and it takes a clean sharp crease before it folds.
Under ink
Solids sit flat and even. Large blacks need a support build rather than K100 on its own.
Best for
Corporate cards, professional services, anything with fine type.
Avoid for
Cards written on in ballpoint — the coating skids and smudges.
On the schedule
Held as a standing stock. Lamination is a separate pass over every sheet.
Gloss art card0.28 mm · 310 gsm
Also sold as gloss coated card, C2S gloss. Held at 260, 310 and 350 gsm.
Reflective, cool to the touch, and the surest way to make a photograph look sharper than it is.
Under ink
Chroma reads about a tenth stronger than on matt. Images gain snap.
CMYK photographs. The sheet drinks the ink and the image dulls.
On the schedule
Ordered against the job rather than held, so name the sheet early.
Kraft board0.46 mm · 350 gsm
Also sold as brown kraft, recycled kraft, natural brown. Held at 300 and 350 gsm.
Brown all the way through, with visible fibre. The cut edge is part of the design, which is why it is worth guillotining well.
Under ink
CMYK goes muddy on brown. Use one or two spot colours, white ink, or foil.
Best for
Cafés, bakeries, craft and wellness brands.
Avoid for
Any design relying on white space. There is no white on this sheet.
On the schedule
Held. White ink is a separate pass, laid down before the colour.
Bonded duplex0.72 mm · 600 gsm bonded
Also sold as duplex, bonded card, coloured-core card. Triplex at 900 gsm sits above it.
Two sheets bonded to reach a caliper no single sheet in the range will give you, usually with a coloured seam showing at the edge.
Under ink
The face takes ink normally; the edge is the design. Keep the faces plain and let the seam do the work.
Best for
Law, private banking, luxury retail, cards meant to be kept.
Avoid for
Folding or scoring — bonded stock delaminates at a crease.
On the schedule
Bonded to order — the sheet is made before the card is printed.
Not sure which sheet? Send the artwork and say where the card will be handed over — a trade-show floor, a boardroom, a restaurant counter. The venue usually decides the stock.The materials library →
Tooling is made once and then it is yours. The block, the die, the screen and the approved file stay on file, so a reorder skips the part that took the days.
What each finish needs, and what is kept for the reorder
Finishing is where deadlines are lost, and it is lost to physics rather than to policy. Lamination is a separate pass through a machine. A brass foil block has to be cut before anything can be foiled. Those are facts about the operation, not about how busy anyone is, so they can be published — and almost nobody in this market publishes them.
Name card finishing: what each operation needs, and whether its tooling is kept for the reorder
Finish
Tooling
What the reorder pays for
Round-corneringStandard radii, on a die held as stock tooling
None
Nothing to make, so nothing to remake.
Matt or gloss laminationSingle pass, both sides
None
Nothing to make, so nothing to remake.
Soft-touch laminationThe film settles before the sheet is guillotined
None
Nothing to make, so nothing to remake.
Spot UVNeeds a screen; reads best over matt film
Made once
Kept on file with your approved artwork. The reorder runs from it.
Painted edgesHand work. Coated or bonded stock only
None
Nothing to make, so nothing to remake.
Die-cuttingA forme is cut once, then kept for the reorder
Made once
Kept on file with your approved artwork. The reorder runs from it.
LetterpressPhotopolymer plate, made once and kept
Made once
Kept on file with your approved artwork. The reorder runs from it.
Duplex or triplex bondingTwo or three sheets bonded to reach a caliper no single sheet gives
None
Nothing to make, so nothing to remake.
Hot foil stampingFirst run carries the block; reorders do not
Made once
Kept on file with your approved artwork. The reorder runs from it.
Blind embossingMale and female dies, kept
Made once
Kept on file with your approved artwork. The reorder runs from it.
Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Every operation here is quoted inside the standard window. What changes between a first order and a second is the tooling: a die, a block or a screen is made once and then kept on file with your approved artwork, which is why the reorder of a job carrying one is a different job from the first.
The useful half of a printer’s knowledge is the half about what not to do. Here is ours for name cards, given away.
Pairings that work
+350 gsm matt art card, matt lamination both sides, spot UV on the logo only. The most requested premium card in Singapore, and it still reorders quickly.
+450 gsm cotton, blind deboss, no ink on the reverse. No colour, no lamination, and it outperforms almost everything on a table.
+600 gsm bonded duplex with a coloured core and a painted edge. The edge does the work — keep the faces plain.
+Kraft board with a single hot-foil hit. Foil is the only thing that reads cleanly on brown, and it needs no white underprint.
+Uncoated natural, 4C/1C, 3 mm rounded corners. Writes like paper, never looks cheap, and the corners cost nothing in time.
Combinations that fail
×Soft-touch plus spot UV. The varnish will not key to the film without a tie-coat and it lifts at the edges a week later. Specify gloss UV over matt lamination instead — from a metre away it reads the same.
×Hot foil on deep laid or felt texture. The block bottoms out on the peaks and skips the valleys. Foil belongs on smooth, lightly textured or bonded stock.
×Emboss with a heavy solid on the reverse. The relief ghosts through as a visible dent. Keep the back light, or go duplex so the bond hides it.
×Painted edges on uncoated fibrous stock. The paint wicks into the fibre and the line goes fuzzy. Coated or bonded duplex only.
×Foil or spot UV within 3 mm of the trim. Registration tolerance on a 90 × 54 mm card is roughly half a millimetre, so anything closer looks cut off on some cards and not others.
Sizes, and what each one costs in handling
If your cards go into a card holder bought in Singapore, use 90 × 54 mm. Everything else is a deliberate choice, and every deliberate choice has a consequence — in the holder, on the sheet, or on the calendar.
90 × 54 mm
Singapore and regional standard. Fits every card holder sold here. Artboard 96 × 60 mm with 3 mm bleed.
85 × 55 mm
European standard. Marginally shorter and taller. Choose it if a parent company brand manual specifies it, not otherwise.
89 × 51 mm
North American standard. Noticeably slimmer. Common on cards for firms headquartered in the United States.
55 × 55 mm square
Distinctive, and it does not fit standard holders. Trims from the same sheet, so it costs nothing in time — but tell recipients it is deliberate.
85 × 27 mm mini
Half height. Works for a name and a QR code, and very little else.
180 × 54 mm, folded to 90 × 54 mm
Four printable panels. Creased and folded, not scored alone — creasing is its own pass.
Bonded duplex and triplex, to 600 gsm
Two or three sheets bonded together, often with a coloured core. The sheet is made before the card is printed.
The file is read before it goes on the press, not after
A rich black built as K100 across a full bleed, a logo pulled off a website at 72 dpi, a double-sided file supplied as spreads, foil sitting inside the registration tolerance — those four are the usual reasons a card comes back wrong, and all four are visible before the press is switched on. If something in the artwork will fail, you hear about it with the fix rather than with a reprint.
The file
Format
PDF/X-4 preferred. Illustrator files and packaged InDesign folders accepted. A Canva export is fine — say so, and the trim, the bleed and the colour build get checked properly.
Artboard
96 × 60 mm — that is 90 × 54 mm trim plus 3 mm bleed on all four sides.
Safe margin
4 mm in from the trim. Nothing you care about — logos, phone numbers, QR codes — inside it.
Double-sided
Two single pages, front first. Not spreads.
Fonts
Outlined, or fully embedded. Outlined is safer if you are unsure.
Placed images
300 dpi at final size. A logo pulled off a website will not hold up at 90 mm.
The colour, and the detail
Colour mode
Build in CMYK. RGB converts, but you do not get to choose how — bright blues and oranges are where you notice.
Rich black
C60 M40 Y40 K100 for large solids, total ink 240%.
Small text
K100 only. Four-colour black on 7 pt type fringes if registration moves half a millimetre.
Hairlines
0.25 pt minimum on coated, 0.5 pt on uncoated and cotton.
Reverse type
6 pt minimum on coated, 7 pt on uncoated or textured.
Finish layers
Spot UV, foil and emboss on a separate 100% K vector layer at the same trim, named SPOTUV, FOIL and EMBOSS.
Need the trim and bleed set up for you? Ask for the 90 × 54 mm name card template and the Illustrator and PDF versions come back by return.
Turnaround
Speed is a common claim. Publishing what actually sets your date is not.
Standard
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Standard orders. The schedule for specialist finishing is confirmed in your quotation.
Express
Same-day printing available.
Subject to artwork, stock and production capacity confirmation. Timing is agreed for each job.
What sets the date
The finishing, not the quantity. Fifty cards and five thousand go through the same passes; a foil block, an embossing die, a spot UV screen or a painted edge is what adds one. Every specification on this page is quoted inside the standard window.
What a reorder skips
The brass block, the embossing die, the cutting die and the approved file are kept. A repeat starts from the tooling rather than from the beginning, which is the part of a first run that takes the longest.
If the date is tight
Say so with the specification. We confirm urgent availability against that specification in the quotation.
No cutoff is published and no express time is either, because the honest answer depends on the finishing, the stock and what is already on the floor that week. Ask with the specification and you get a straight answer and the next honest date — not a promise that quietly slips to the following week. Reorders usually skip a step entirely, because the tooling, the stock and the approved file are already on record.
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Questions asked about name cards
What size is a business card in Singapore?
90 × 54 mm is the Singapore and regional standard, and it fits every card holder sold here. The European standard is 85 × 55 mm and the North American standard is 89 × 51 mm. Whichever you choose, supply artwork with 3 mm bleed on all four sides — so a 90 × 54 mm card is drawn on a 96 × 60 mm artboard.
How much do 500 name cards cost?
EZ Print does not publish prices, because a printed price is only true for one exact specification. Send the stock, quantity, sides, finish, size and the date the cards are needed, and a written quotation comes back for that job. If the stock is not decided, send the artwork and a stock will be recommended.
How long does business card printing take in Singapore?
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days, and it is one window for the whole range: plain cards, laminated cards, spot UV, foil, embossing, letterpress and painted edges are all quoted inside it. Where a date is tighter than that, ask for an express quotation with the specification and the date on it — we confirm the specification and production schedule in the quotation. A reorder is the shortest work of all, because the block, the die and the approved file are already on record.
What gsm should business cards be?
310 gsm and 350 gsm cover most corporate work and are what people mean by a normal card. 400 gsm reads as premium in the hand. 450 gsm cotton and 600 gsm bonded duplex are the top of the range, usually chosen for the edge as much as the face. Below 260 gsm a card feels like a flyer.
Is 350 gsm thicker than 300 gsm?
Usually, but not always across different papers — gsm is weight per square metre, not thickness. Coating is heavy and thin, so a 350 gsm coated card can measure thinner than a 300 gsm uncoated one. If thickness is what is being bought, specify the caliper in millimetres rather than the gsm.
What is the difference between matt and gloss lamination?
Both are thin films bonded to the printed sheet, and both stop a card scuffing in a wallet. Gloss lifts colour and makes photographs look sharper. Matt kills reflection, feels drier in the hand, and is the better ground for spot UV, because the contrast between dull and shiny is the whole effect. Either one is a separate pass over every printed sheet, which is why it is specified rather than assumed.
Can you put spot UV on soft-touch lamination?
Not reliably. The varnish will not key to a soft-touch film without a tie-coat, and it tends to lift at the edges a week later. For that dull-and-shiny contrast, specify matt lamination with gloss spot UV instead — from a metre away it is the same effect, and it does not fail.
Do you keep my foil block or die for reorders?
Yes. A brass foil block, an embossing die, a spot UV screen and a cutting die are made once and kept on file with the approved artwork. The first foil run waits for the block; every run after it skips that wait.
Why did my name cards curl?
Almost always single-sided lamination in Singapore humidity. Film on one face and bare stock on the other means the two sides take up moisture at different rates, and the card bends towards the unlaminated side. Laminate both sides, or laminate neither.
Can you print name cards from a Canva file?
Yes, but say that it is Canva. Canva exports at a fixed bleed and often in RGB, so the trim, the bleed and the colour build are checked before the file goes near a press rather than after.
Do you deliver name cards, or do I collect them?
Finished work is delivered island-wide by courier. Collection can be arranged on request — ask when you send the specification.
Trading since 2017 — EZ PRINT PRIVATE LIMITED, UEN 201706183R.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days. For urgent orders or express schedules, please check with EZ Print.
Artwork is checked before production.
Island-wide courier delivery within Singapore.
Collection can be arranged on request.
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