Product Specs
Finished Size: varies from design to design
Paper Options: Standard, Art, Linen and Pearl
Printing: Press
Folding Options: Flat, Folded Vertical or Folded Horizontal
Finishing Options: UV Matte or Glossy Coating, 6-Color Printing
Resolution: minimum of 240 dpi
Safe Area/Margins: 0.25"
Accepted Files: jpg, 8 Bit, RGB, file names must be shorter than 29 characters
Sizing Template
How to Order
Press business cards can be ordered in the Black River Imaging software in the press products catalog.
PSD files of the press-printed specialty shaped business card layouts are available in the learning center at our website. If you design your own template, your image should be the size of the card with a safe zone of .25 inch.
Download
- Log in at http://www.blackriverimaging.com/sign-in.asp
- Click on download software
- Choose Download Imaging Software
Sizes and Options Palette
We suggest you open the Size and Options Palette. You may first need to click on each side of the software and pull them towards the center so that you have extra desktop space to place the palettes in.
- Click Sizes Button and Choose Show Sizes Palette.
- Then enlarge the window the length of your screen by clicking on the corner of the window.
- This will allow you to navigate through the Products.
- Click Options Button and choose show Options Palette.
- Then enlarge the window the length of your screen by clicking on the corner of the window.
- This will allow you to navigate through the Options.
- To allow additional working space in the software, you can click on Preferences and deselect the “Show Banner” option.
Placing an order
- Click Sizes and follow the catalog prompt and choose the Press Product catalog.
- Under Sizes or in the sizes Palette choose Specialty Shaped Business Cards
- Click on the shape you would like to order. (The available designs can be viewed from the web site.)
- The layout for that product will come up in the left side of the software.
- Drag and drop in your image.
- Crop your image if you need to by sliding the zoom bar over to the left. You may move the image around in the opening with your mouse.
- Paper Type, Coating, 6 Color Printing and Images options are selected from the Options palette.
- Once the image is the way you would like click Add to Order.
- Continue ordering in the Press Products catalog file.
- Click Review Order
- Double check your order.
- Then click Complete Order
- Click send now via the Internet
- Fill out the Payment Information
- The software will save and send the order.
- You’ll receive an email confirmation once we receive your order and begin production
Software Guides
Software Basics http://www.blackriverimaging.com/pdf/SoftwareBasics.pdf
How to Properly Save an Order and Reopen as New http://www.blackriverimaging.com/pdf/OpenandSave.pdf
Sample Images
These are sample images that you may use for showing products. Because our product photos may contain copyrighted images that are the property of the photographers that created them, anyone claiming them as their own will be in violation of those copyrights.
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