Postcards, greeting cards, door hangers
A postcard is two designs with different jobs. The front is read at arm’s length and thrown away or kept; the back has to carry an address, a message and enough clear space that a pen works on it.
EZ Print prints postcards, direct-mail cards, greeting cards and door hangers in Singapore, and has done since 2017. One press run, three finishing routes: a postcard is trimmed flat, a greeting card is creased and folded, and a door hanger is die-cut with a hole and a slot that clears a handle. A6 105 × 148 mm is the standard, with DL 99 × 210 mm and square 148 × 148 mm cut from the same sheets. Stocks run 260 to 400 gsm: gloss art card where the image carries the piece, matt art card for a considered look, uncoated woodfree where the back is written on. Printing is 4C/4C or 4C/1C, with 3 mm bleed and a 4 mm safe margin. Finishing includes creasing, die-cutting, lamination, spot UV, round-cornering and numbering. Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days, laminated or bare. Express is quoted per job. EZ Print quotes from the specification and does not publish prices.
Specifications, formats and enquiry details for each product quoted on this service.
A single card with an image on one face and room to write or address on the other.
Also ordered as: Direct Mail Postcard, Mailer Card, Promo Card, Photo Card, Photocard
A die-cut card with a hole and slot that loops over a handle, for a message or a hotel room status.
Also ordered as: Door Knob Hanger, Door Tag, Do Not Disturb Sign, Hotel Door Hanger
A slim card to keep a page, printed both sides and often punched for a tassel or ribbon.
Also ordered as: Book Mark, Tasselled Bookmark, Reading Marker
A punched card tag tied or looped onto a garment, bottle or gift with the brand and details.
Also ordered as: Swing Tag, Garment Tag, Price Tag, Gift Tag, Bottle Neck Tag, Clothing Tag, Luggage Tag
A creased and folded card with a message inside, sent to clients at festive seasons.
Also ordered as: Festive Card, Thank You Card, Christmas Card, Birthday Card, Corporate Card, Hari Raya Card
Size, stock, sides and finish. The one thing worth deciding before any of them is whether it will be written on, because that single answer eliminates half the stock list. The A6 card below is drawn at true physical size.
Save the date
The reverse takes a pen
105 × 148mm
A6 — exactly a quarter of an A4 sheet. It fits every rack and every envelope sold here, and it is the size a postcard is assumed to be.
What to ask for
1,000 A6 postcards 350 gsm matt art card 4C/4C Matt lamination front only, uncoated reverse 105 × 148 mm trim, 3 mm bleed Print-ready PDF supplied as two single pages Needed by — your date
The material
A postcard survives a postbag, a pocket and a fridge door. It needs weight for that, and it needs the right surface on the side someone writes on. The edges below are drawn at the measured caliper of the weight named.
Also sold as gloss coated card, C2S gloss. Held at 260, 310 and 350 gsm.
The image side does the work. Reflective, cool, and photographs gain about a tenth in apparent contrast.
Also sold as matt coated card, C2S matt. Held at 310, 350 and 400 gsm.
The considered default. No glare, warm to the eye, and it takes spot UV better than any other sheet held.
Also sold as uncoated natural, offset card, natural card. Held at 300, 350 and 400 gsm.
Completely matt, slightly toothy, and the only sheet here a fountain pen behaves on.
The practical answer for a mailer is a split specification: coated on the image side, uncoated or unlaminated on the address side. It costs nothing extra and it is the difference between a card that can be written on and one that cannot.The materials library
Laminate one side, not both, on anything that will be written on or posted. Film on both faces makes a card that no pen and no franking machine can mark.
A postcard is small enough that finishing changes how it feels more than how it looks. Film on one side only is the most useful thing on this list and the one most often left out of a brief.
| 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. |
| Creasing and foldingA creasing line is scored above 170 gsm, so a coated sheet does not crack at the fold | None | Nothing to make, so nothing to remake. |
| Hole-punchingStandard bits. A shaped or slotted opening is die-cutting, not punching | 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. |
| 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. |
| Sequential numberingWhere the card doubles as a numbered entry or voucher | None | Nothing to make, so nothing to remake. |
| Single-sided laminationFilm on the image face only, so the reverse still takes a pen | None | Nothing to make, so nothing to remake. |
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.
A postcard laminated on both sides is a beautiful object that cannot be posted, because nothing will write on it and the franking mark will not dry.
Every size below cuts from the same parent sheets as the flyers and the name cards, so the choice is about the envelope, the rack and the postal rate rather than about the paper.
Supply a postcard as two single pages rather than as a spread, and design the reverse for the pen and the postal mark rather than as somewhere to put the logo again.
If the card is being posted, send the envelope size or the postal format with the specification and the trim is checked against it before anything is printed.
Turnaround
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Standard orders. The schedule for specialist finishing is confirmed in your quotation.
Same-day printing available.
Subject to artwork, stock and production capacity confirmation. Timing is agreed for each job.
No cutoff is published and no express time is either. A reorder of a card whose spot UV screen or cutting die already exists skips the part of the first run that took the longest, which is usually the honest way to make a date rather than to buy speed.
Every answer here is in the page source at full opacity, open or closed. An answer engine has to be able to read it without executing anything.
A6 at 105 × 148 mm — exactly a quarter of an A4 sheet. DL at 99 × 210 mm is used where there is more to say than to show, and 148 × 148 mm square is used where the card should stand out, though it needs a square envelope.
300–350 gsm is the working range. Below 260 gsm the card bends in a postbag; above 400 gsm it stops fitting comfortably into a standard envelope. If it is being handwritten, uncoated stock matters more than the extra weight.
Not reliably. Film resists a ballpoint and a franking mark will not dry on it. Laminate the image face only and leave the reverse bare — it is the same single pass over the sheet, and it keeps the card usable.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days, and it is the same window laminated or bare, round-cornered or square, numbered or plain. Where the date is tighter, ask for an express quotation with the size, the stock and whether the card is being posted; we confirm the specification and production schedule in the quotation.
3 mm on all four sides, with a 4 mm safe margin inside the trim. Where the corners are being rounded, keep artwork 6 mm clear of the corner instead of 4 mm, because the radius eats into the area a straight cut would have kept.
The cards are printed to the specification; the mailing is arranged separately. Send the envelope or postal format with the enquiry and the trim, the address area and the stock are checked against it before printing.
Yes — a perforation across the card gives a reply stub or a voucher that detaches cleanly. It is a separate pass, and the perforation line needs 6 mm of clear space on both sides so no type is cut through.
Fifty. Short runs go on a digital press and the specification is unchanged; above a few thousand, offset becomes the sensible route and Pantone matching becomes straightforward.
Every job is quoted from its specification — stock, quantity, sides, finish, size and deadline.
Artwork is welcome but not required to start. Email sales@ezprint.com.sg if you would rather attach files.
