18pt Laminated Business Cards
The step-up card: heavier stock sealed in lamination that shrugs off pockets, wallets, and coffee.
18pt Laminated Business Cards
Lamination is the difference between a card that survives a wallet and one that dies in it. A film is bonded over the printed 18pt stock, sealing the surface against moisture, oil and abrasion. The practical result: a card that has been in a jacket pocket for six weeks still looks like the day it was printed — no softened corners, no grey smudge where a thumb has rubbed the ink.
Silk matte lamination is the one most brands pick. It has a low, velvety sheen and a slight drag under the fingers that reads as expensive without shouting; deep colours stay deep instead of going chalky. Gloss lamination is unapologetic — a wet-looking, high-shine surface that makes photography and strong brand colours pop across a table. Both are applied to the full card, so the protection is complete rather than decorative.
This is the card for situations where it will be handled, passed sideways to a colleague, and reconsidered later: wholesale meetings, trade show follow-ups, real estate, consulting, anything with a long decision cycle. The extra weight over 16pt is felt immediately in the hand, and lamination is what makes it stay felt.
One honest trade-off worth knowing before you order: a laminated card cannot be written on with a normal pen. The film that protects it also repels ink. If writing on the back matters, choose 16pt matte instead — we would rather tell you now than have you discover it at a networking event. Next-business-day production is available, and every order is human-proofed first.
What people actually print these for
The wholesale leave-behind
A buyer meets twenty brands in a day and goes home with a bag of paper. The laminated card is the one that still looks deliberate on Friday, clipped to your line sheet.
Loyalty cards that last the year
Punch cards and membership cards live in wallets for months and take real abuse. Lamination is what stops them turning into lint by visit four.
Trade show follow-up
Conference floors are hard on paper. A gloss-laminated card survives the tote bag and still photographs well when someone adds you to their CRM from a phone snap.
Referral cards for partners
Give a stack to the businesses that send you work — the salon next door, the accountant upstairs. Cards handed on by someone else need to look like you spent money on them.
Wipe-clean price cards
Laminate is washable, so a card sitting in a display case or beside a coffee machine survives spills and thumbprints for a whole season.
Introduction cards for a new hire
When someone joins a client-facing role, a properly made card on day one does more for their confidence than a week of onboarding slides.
If it's not right, it's free.
Color off? Cut crooked? Doesn't feel right in your hand? One email and we reprint it free — no photo evidence, no return shipping, no debate.
