How to Print Greeting Cards from a Print-Ready PDF
If you design in Affinity, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Canva, you don’t need the online designer at all. This video takes you from the artwork guide to an uploaded file: setting up at the finished size with 2mm bleed at 300 dpi, exporting a press-quality PDF, what to send for printing inside the card, and choosing your stock, quantity, envelopes and sleeves.
Start Designing Your CardThe steps, written out.
Prefer to read? Here is everything the video covers, in order.
Download the artwork guide
Each size has its own guide with trim, bleed and safe area marked. They’re linked from Cards From Your Artwork.
Set up your file
Work at actual size, 300 dpi, RGB (sRGB), with 2mm bleed. Keep text inside the safe area.
Export a press-quality PDF
No crop marks. For printing inside the card, one two-page PDF: outside on page one, inside on page two.
Upload it
Choose your size and orientation, click Choose File and select your PDF.
Choose and order
Pick your card stock, quantity, envelopes and sleeves, and order. A real person checks every file before it prints.
Video transcript.
The written transcript for this video is on its way. In the meantime the steps above cover everything it shows.
Ready to try it?
Open the card designer and try it on your own artwork, or head back for the rest of the tutorials.