Now we have reached the column on the right.

To provide your business cards with a surface protection, you could choose a premium UV coating here. However, it depends on the paper you choose. It doesn’t apply to your currently selected 12 pt cards.

If you want to see what your business cards look like, you can get a proof: Either a “Paper Proof” which is a printed sheet of paper, or you might find a “Screen Proof” to be sufficient for checking our quality beforehand, meaning that we’ll send you a file to look at on your PC screen.
However, since such a proof is available for an extra charge only and will also prolong delivery time, you should think twice whether it makes sense for business cards.

Finally, you have to specify how many business cards you want. Go to the “Quantity” field. Here you’ll find a list of quantity figures together with the associated prices.

The last field on the right tells you now the exact price that we’ll charge you, as well as the date when your business cards arrive at your door.
To get a summary of your order, click “Quotation” on the top right of the “$ Price/Delivery” field. A window pops up showing all details of your order.

If you want to know the shipping costs involved, use our “Shipping Calculator” below the “$ Price/Delivery” field.

It might be a good idea to get an overview of your order data now. Let’s go back to the left side and call up the “Fact Sheet” from the top of the second line (Print Data). It will also give you a clue about the specifications required in your data file, which you’re going to send us.

Having completed all entries here, click the blue “To the shopping cart” button.
Now it’s time to get registered, unless you’ve done this before.

To be continued…

Placing an order at print24 is very easy.

First of all, make sure that you have selected your country from the drop-down list at the very top of our print24 homepage. Otherwise things might get confused.

Now let’s assume you need a couple of business cards.
Click the “Calculate” button (which is normally already active by default).

Now click the arrow button on the “Product” line to open the list of products and select “Business Cards”. By the way, if you hover your mouse pointer over the blue i icon that you can find on each line, you will get more detailed information on each related item.

Let’s assume you prefer to use your own print data, selecting this option from the second line.
You might as well go for our FreeDesign tool, but this will be in the focus of one of our blogs to come.

As business cards are commonly single-sided, keep this setting in the “Pages” box.
Also the format of 3.5’’ x 2’’ suites your needs.

To give your cards a solid look, select “12 pt Board coated” from the “Paper” list.

Now we come to the color options. Here you’ll find a long list to choose from. But why bother too much? “4/0 Color CMYK” is the best deal here any way. By the way, whenever you come across the BestDeal symbol you can be sure that you won’t find any better product on the web.

In the “Processing” field let’s go for “Trimming, corners rounded” for a change. Who says that business cards should always have square corners?

To be continued tomorrow…