Design Guidelines

Before jumping into designing everything yourself, remember that TAP1CE have their own in-house design team who can help you with this, all for free. All you have to do is send us your logo or design and we’ll get the rest done for you. A proof will be sent to you for your approval before we go ahead with production.

Pre-designing your cards before uploading to TAP1CE requires comfort with graphic design applications. Some technical knowledge is required to use our templates and to save your work in the best format for printing. But if you’re a design professional then you’re all over this already.

HELPFUL TIPS

DIMENSIONS

Our cards can be printed edge to edge and are 54mm x 86mm. Please don’t include trim marks.

FILE FORMAT

We accept the following file types up to 50mb in size.
PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF, AI, PSD, INDD.

CMYK

We can only print in CMYK, so no spot colours. Only TAP1CE Original Cards can be printed in CMYK.

MINIMUM SIZES

Thicker lines print better, we recommend a minimum line weight of 0.5pt and a minimum font size of 8pt.

Make sure you’ve accounted for a 2mm bleed in your design; this is where your background extends beyond the edge of the card edge.
Where possible designs featuring graphics or text should be submitted as vector-based PDFs. To keep your text in vector format, we recommend applications like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Please note, saving text in JPEG format could result in ‘fuzzy’ edges.
When your design features a mix of photography and text, make sure your photographs are 300 dpi, and that your final design is saved as a PDF.