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 Attorney business card 1895 Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. A business card typically includes the giver's name, company affiliation (usually with a logo) and contact information such as street addresses, telephone number(s), e-mail addresses and website. Traditionally many cards were simple black text on white stock; today a professional business card will sometimes include one or more aspects of striking visual design. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
Brief History: Civil War Pensions: The business card of one of the many attorneys specializing in pension claims, circa 1895. ...
Brief History: Civil War Pensions: The business card of one of the many attorneys specializing in pension claims, circa 1895. ...
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An address is a code and abstract concept expressing the fixed location of a home, business or other building on the earths surface. ...
A telephone number is a sequence of decimal digits that uniquely indicates the network termination point. ...
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Business cards are frequently used during sales calls (visits) to provide potential customers with a means to contact the business or representative of the business.
Business cards evolved from a fusion of traditional trade cards and visiting cards. The Visiting card of Johann van Beethoven apothecary shop (Brother of Ludwig van Beethoven) Source: MadaboutBeethoven This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
The Visiting card of Johann van Beethoven apothecary shop (Brother of Ludwig van Beethoven) Source: MadaboutBeethoven This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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Trade card describes small cards, similar to the visiting cards exchanged in social circles, that businesses would distribute to clients and potential customers. ...
Visiting card of Johann van Beethoven, Brother of Ludwig van Beethoven Visiting cards first appeared in China in the 15th century, and in Europe in the 17th century. ...
Visiting cards (also known as calling cards) first appeared in China in the 15th century, and in Europe in the 17th century. The footmen of aristocrats and of royalty would deliver these first European visiting cards to the servants of their prospective hosts solemnly introducing their arrival. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...
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A servant is a person who is hired to provide regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. ...
Visiting cards became an indispensable tool of etiquette, with sophisticated rules governing their use. The aristocracies of North America and the rest of Europe adopted the practice from French and English etiquette. It has been suggested that Office etiquette be merged into this article or section. ...
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Visiting cards included refined engraved ornaments and fantastic coats of arms. The visiting cards served as tangible evidence of the meeting of social obligations. The stack of cards in the card tray in the hall was a handy catalog of exactly who had called and whose calls one should reciprocate. They also provided a streamlined letter of introduction. A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ...
With the passage of time, visiting cards became an essential accessory to any 19th-century upper or middle class lady or gentleman. Visiting cards were not generally used among country folk or the working classes. Upper class refers to the group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. ...
The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ...
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The term working class is used to denote a social class. ...
Trade cards first became popular at the beginning of the 17th century in London. These functioned as advertising and also as maps, directing the public to merchants' stores, as no formal street address numbering system existed at the time.
Businesses used their cards as marks of distinction and thus introduced the first modifications in their design. Later, as the growing demand for the cards boosted the development of color printing, more sophisticated card designs appeared, making the cards works of art. For other uses, see Print. ...
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The trend toward fanciful trade cards was balanced by the pragmatic need of a growing group of private entrepreneurs who had a constant need to exchange contact information. These users often started to print out their own cheaper business cards. An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. ...
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Standards for financial and identity cards are set out by ISO. All credit cards and debit cards, and most ID cards, are the same shape and size ID-1 as specified by the ISO 7810 standard: ID-1 = 85. ...
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ISO 216 specifies international standard (ISO) paper sizes, used in most countries in the world today. ...
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In print Business cards are printed on some form of card stock with exact parameters dependent on national or local norms, the desired effect and method of printing, and cost. In general business cards use stock that is 400g/m² (weight) or 12pt (thickness). Card Stock is a stiff or rigid paper stock. ...
High quality business cards without full-color photographs are normally printed using spot colors on sheetfed offset printing presses. Some companies have gone so far as to trademark their spot colors (examples are UPS brown, Los Angeles Lakers' purple, and Tide's orange). If a business card logo is a single color and the type is another color, the process is considered two color. More spot colors can be added depending on the needs of the card. Offset printing is a widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred (or offset) from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. ...
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To simulate the "raised-print" effect of printing with engraved plates, a less-expensive process called thermography was developed that uses the application of a plastic powder, which adheres to the wet ink. The cards are then passed through a heating unit, which melts the plastic onto the card. This article is about the infrared imaging technique. ...
Full color cards, or cards that use many colors, are printed on sheetfed presses as well; however, they use the CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) four-color printing process. Screens of each color overprinted on one another create a wide gamut of color. The downside to this printing method is that screened colors if examined closely will reveal tiny dots, whereas spot color cards are printed solid in most cases. Spot colors should be used for simple cards with line art. Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black) CMYK (or sometimes YMCK) is a subtractive color model used in color printing. ...
Four-color printing creates an image using the subtractive colors cyan, yellow, magenta, and black. ...
In color reproduction, including computer graphics and photography, the gamut, or color gamut (pronounced ), is a certain complete subset of colors. ...
Some terminology in reference to full color printing:
- 4/0 - Full Color Front / No Back
- 4/1 - Full Color Front / Black & White Back
- 4/4 - Full Color Front / Full Color Back
These names are pronounced as "four over zero" or "four over four."
A business card can also be coated with a UV glossy coat. The coat is applied just like another ink using an additional unit on a sheetfed press. That being said, UV coats can also be applied as a spot coating - meaning areas can be coated, and other areas can be left uncoated. This creates additional design potential. The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. ...
Business Cards can also be printed with a digital copier, which uses toner baked onto the surface of the card. Generally these cards have to be printed on lighter stocks so as to not damage the copier. To compensate for this a UV coating or plastic lamination can be applied to thicken the cards up and make them more durable.
UV coats, and other coatings such as Aqueous Coatings are used to speed manufacturing of the cards. Cards that are not dry will "offset" which means the ink from the front of one card will end up on the back of the next one. UV coatings are generally highly glossy but are more likely to fingerprint, while aqueous coatings are not noticeable but increase the life of the card. It is possible to use a dull aqueous coating on uncoated stock and get some very durable uncoated cards.
When cards are designed, they are given bleeds if color extends to the edge of the finished cut size. (A bleed is the extension of printed lines or colors beyond the line where the paper it is printed on will be cut.) This is to help ensure that the paper will cut without white edges due to very small differences in where the blade cuts the cards, and it is almost impossible to cut the cards properly without. Just being a hair off can result in white lines, and the blade itself will pull the paper while cutting. The image on the paper can also shift from page to page which is called a bounce, which is generally off by a hairline on an offset press, but can be quite larger on lower end equipment such as a copier or a duplicator press. Bleeds are typically an extra 1/8 to 1/4 in to all sides of the card. Bleed is a printing term that refers to printing that goes to the edge of the sheet after trimming. ...
- Bleed Size: 3.75 x 2.25 in (1/8" bleeds) (95.25 by 57.15 mm)
- Cut Size: 3.5 x 2 in (89 by 51 mm)
Other formats Recent technological advances have made CD-ROM "business cards" possible which can hold about 35 to 100 MB of data. These cards may be square, round or oblong but are approximately the same size as a conventional business card. CD business cards are designed to fit within the 80 mm tray of a computer's CD-ROM drive. They are playable in most computer CD drives, however do not work in slot-loading drives. Despite the ability to include dynamic presentations and a great deal of data, these discs are not in common use as business cards. The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
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Most handheld computers have the ability to "beam" (send through infra-red or Bluetooth communication) an electronic business card, eliminating the need for the recipient to re-key the contact information. This is also done via SMS on most mobile telephones. Handheld devices (also known as handhelds) are pocket-sized computing devices that are rapidly gaining popularity as the access to information in every walk of life becomes more and more mission critical. ...
The Infrared Data Association (IrDA) defines physical specifications communications protocol standards for the short range exchange of data over infrared light, for uses such as personal area networks (PANs). ...
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There are also specialty business cards that are made from plastic (PVC), metal, cloth, magnets and even real wood. For the most part, these special material business cards are the same size as standard but typically are rounded on the corners / edges. Although paper business cards are by far the most used, these "other" material cards are popular amongst companies that require a unique look. Polyvinyl chloride Polyvinyl chloride, (IUPAC Polychloroethene) commonly abbreviated PVC, is a widely used thermoplastic polymer. ...
Collecting There are a small number of people who collect and trade business cards, especially antique ones.
See also A meishi ) is a Japanese business card. ...
An example amateur radio QSL card QSL, or QSL card, is the confirmation of a QSO (a radio contact) between two radio amateurs. ...
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MiniCards are custom 28mm x 70mm cards printed on heavy stock with a matte laminate finish from the London-based company Moo Print, Ltd. ...
External links - International Business Card Collectors
- Canadian Business Card Collectors
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