Card Badges (VIP Badges, Enclosure Badges, Guest Enclosure Badges)

Example of a printed card badge with foiled front

Details at a glance

Strong. Card badges consists of a 1.25mm thick board sandwiched between coloured glossy paper, giving toughness yet a high-quality feel. If you require a custom colour, or even a full-colour design, we produce these in the same way to achieve crisp, vivid printing with the strength of the 1.25mm solid core.

Foiling and numbering. As well as providing top quality print on your card badges, we can also add metallic foils (gold, silver or holographic) and consecutive serial numbering. Numbered badges are supplied packed in number order, making it easy to determine how many have been used.

Ready-strung if required. We can supply your badges fitted with red, blue, yellow, black or white strings, ready to attach directly to a buttonhole.

Not just for business use. Card badges make a prestigious alternative to name tags at weddings and anniversary meals. Fasten them to a miniature bottle of champagne for guests to take home, or to pour for the first toast – imagine the sounds of all those corks popping as the speeches begin!

Pricing illustrations

Please remember that our prices are fully inclusive of professional advice to help you prepare your file for printing, pre-press checks, PDF proofs and printing. The only charges to add are for delivery and VAT, where applicable. We never add 'hidden extras' and we stand by that principle 100%.

Card badges, standard board colour (see below for standard board colours)
Type	250	500	1,250	2,500	>2,500 per 1,250
Plain	£102.85	£131.50	£350.11	£719.05	£351.94
Hot foil	+ £27.37	+ £36.74	+ £64.86	+ £111.73	+ £46.86
Sec foil	+ £33.92	+ £47.99	+ £92.21	+ £167.96	+ £74.98
Numbering	+ £22.50	+ £29.99	+ £52.49	+ £89.98	+ £42.48
String	+ £32.17	+ £42.85	+ £74.98	+ £149.97	+ £74.98

Examples

500 card badges with hot foil on both sides, numbered
£131.50 + £36.74 + £36.74 + £29.99 = £234.97
3,750 card badges with security foil on one side
£719.05 + £351.94 + £167.96 + £74.98 = £1,313.93

Card badges, full colour print on one or both sides
Type	250	500	1,250	2,500	>2,500 per 1,250
One side	£201.89	£236.33	£519.15	£926.09	£424.41
Both sides	£231.18	£305.13	£568.52	£970.80	£440.87
Hot foil	+ £27.37	+ £36.74	+ £64.86	+ £111.73	+ £46.86
Sec foil	+ £33.92	+ £47.99	+ £92.21	+ £167.96	+ £74.98
Numbering	+ £22.50	+ £29.99	+ £52.49	+ £89.98	+ £42.48
String	+ £32.17	+ £42.85	+ £74.98	+ £149.97	+ £74.98

Examples

250 card badges with full colour print on one side, standard board colour on the reverse, numbered and strung
£201.89 + £22.50 + £32.17 = £256.56
1,250 card badges with full colour print on both sides, hot foiled on both sides, strung
£568.52 + £64.86 + £64.86 + £74.98 = £773.22

Card badge shapes

Dimensions of custom card badges Below are the standard shapes which we have cutting formes for, but we can cut any shape you need providing the shape fits within a 65 x 75mm rectangle.

Formes for custom shapes cost £85.00 + VAT and this charge is incurred only once – subsequent batches of the same-shaped badge would not have this additional charge.

Card badge standard shapes

Design templates

Dimensions for all of our card badges are shown below. If you prefer not to lay out your own badge, please contact us on Freephone 0800 077 6467 and we will be happy to help.

Standard card badge colours

If your requirement is for card badges of a single colour, you can save a lot of money by cho+osing from our standard badge colours shown below. Please note that these colours are shown as approximations only; if you wish to see exact colour samples please contact us on Freephone 0800 077 6467 and we will send sample chips to you by first-class post.

Examples of card badge colours

Custom printed card badges

We can print card badges with any design you choose, no matter how complicated. We can also print the reverse of the badges with the same design, a different design, or simply apply a plain white paper.

Because of the number of possible combinations it is not practical to give pricing illustrations here – please contact our Freephone Design Advice Line on 0800 077 6467 for an instant price.

Turnaround time

Card badges in quantities up to 1,250 are despatched in 10 working days.

If your job is urgent we can turn this product around in half of the published despatch time; however, this is subject to a 50% premium because of the additional work involved in rescheduling jobs. If you need to make use of this service please call us on Freephone 0800 077 6467 even if your artwork is not ready, so that we can allocate press space.

VAT guidance

Card badges are standard rated for VAT.

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