Custom greeting cards are not the simple cardboard cutouts today. In an increasingly multi-media kind of society, greeting cards have transcended mere printed works and have gone on to sport new and modern features. In this special article on greeting cards, we will talk about a few new design and print ideas in printing greeting cards that represent the future of the industry. Try to see if you can add these into your own custom greeting card effects.
• Plastic greeting cards – For an “everlasting” custom greeting card, one of the new things you can do today is to print plastic greeting cards. Of course plastic greeting cards are more expensive, but they are also very durable and memorable as well. This means that these special greeting cards can be stored as keepsakes by your readers and they should last quite long without any problems with material degradation. This is perfect if you really want that lasting impact with your custom greeting cards. So try it out if you want that special greeting card message become almost immortal.
• Full audio custom greeting cards – Now, you should be familiar already with the concept of musical greeting cards. For the most part, these special greeting cards have been made with monophonic sounds. However, today, you can also have special small chips installed that can play full audio music with lyrics or real sounding instruments. This of course is great, but the cost of making it is really significant. So try printing these kinds of color greeting cards only if the people you want to give them to are really special.
• Holographic/3D greeting cards - It is also possible to print greeting cards with special covers that are holographic or in 3D. This is just like your typical prints, but with an image inserted where you need to use special glasses. You just need to provide small paper 3D glasses for people to see the special greeting card covers. If deployed well, these special 3D greeting cards can really be a novelty item, and become worth keeping for most people you send these too. Besides having a great personal impact, they can also have a great marketing impact if you use them for this purpose.
• Gleaming, sparkling greeting cards – With the special new techniques in printing today, greeting cards can also be made to have that extra gleam or sparkling element. Using special metallic inks, most greeting card printers today can make greeting card text stand out and look like they are made of gold or silver. Also, using special paper materials, a greeting card can have that special shimmer or sparkle when hit in the right angle with certain lights. All of these will add that expensive and magical look to your color greeting cards making them really worth keeping to most people.
• Embossed or structure embedded greeting cards – Finally, with integration with other printed technologies, custom greeting cards today can have embossed or embedded elements. Not only will your color greeting cards employ 2 dimensional prints or pseudo 3D prints, you can actually make them have creative bumps and embedded studs, to make them truly look like a special kind of color print. You can emboss special symbols for example such as a heart. Or you can also embed actual decorative materials such as strings, twines, ribbons, studs etc. These all combine to make truly powerful and personalized custom greeting card that is undeniably appealing and memorable.
So that is the future of custom greeting card printing told to you today. These are already being applied, but not extensively for many greeting cards. Why don’t you try them out for your custom greeting cards now?
Author Resource:
Troy Duff works as a businessman and currently runs a printing company that offers custom greeting cards , banners, magazines, flyers, door hangers, catalogs, greeting cards , presentation folders, print newsletters, custom printer and other printed ads.
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