Print-Ready Artwork

Cards from your own print-ready artwork

Send us a finished PDF from Canva, Affinity, Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator, and we’ll print it beautifully — greeting cards, postcards, bookmarks and business cards, packed by hand in Bristol.

Cards From Your Artwork

Design in your favourite app.

Already have a finished design? Send us a print-ready PDF and we’ll print it on your choice of premium card stock. No design tools to learn — just your own artwork, printed properly.

  • Works with Canva, Affinity, Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDraw & Illustrator
  • A ready-made template for every size, with trim, bleed & safe area marked
  • We proof-check every file before it goes to press
  • Minimum order just one card — mix sizes & designs freely

From your app to our press

PRINT-READY ARTWORK Design it in your favourite app. Ps Id Ai Canva  ·  Affinity  ·  Photoshop  ·  InDesign  ·  Illustrator
A portrait greeting card of painted blossom and foliage by Carol Pearson, held with its ivory envelope
Your artwork — printed & packed by hand
Watch & Learn

How to create & upload a print-ready PDF

A short walkthrough taking you from a blank template to an uploaded, print-ready file — everything you need to get it right first time.

  • Setting up your document with 2mm bleed
  • Exporting a print-ready PDF from your software
  • Uploading your file and placing your order

Watch: how to print greeting cards from a PDF

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How It Works

From your PDF to printed cards

  1. 1

    Choose your size

    Pick your card, postcard, bookmark or business card size below.

  2. 2

    Download the template

    Grab the matching artwork guide, showing the trim, bleed and safe area.

  3. 3

    Design & export a PDF

    Lay out your artwork in your software and save a print-ready PDF with 2mm bleed.

  4. 4

    Upload & order

    Choose your stock and quantity, upload your PDF, and we’ll take it from there.

Choose Your Size

Pick a size, choose the orientation.

Every card is trimmed, creased and quality-checked, then packed by hand at our Bristol studio. Mix sizes and designs freely — quantity discounts are worked out per card stock.

Greeting Cards

Postcards

Bookmarks & Business Cards

Portrait / Landscape / Tent fold — choose the orientation, then upload Start order — one orientation, go straight to upload
Before You Upload

Artwork set-up guidelines.

Set your artwork up at the actual card size at 300dpi and export a press-quality PDF. Then the details that catch people out:

  • Colour — save image files in the sRGB colour space.
  • Crops — please don’t add crop marks to your artwork.
  • Photoshop — flatten all layers, don’t use extra channels, and save as a single Photoshop PDF.
  • Illustrator — convert fonts to outlines, embed images, and save as a press-quality PDF.
  • Canva — export as PDF Print, with “Crop marks and bleed” left unticked.
  • Inside text or images — supply a single two-page PDF: page one the front and back of the card, page two the inside.

Just one card

No minimum order — print a single card or a full run.

Free UK delivery

On all card orders over £70. Prices include VAT.

Every file checked

We proof each PDF before printing and flag anything that needs a look.

Ready When You Are

Print your artwork

Pick your size, upload your PDF, and we’ll do the rest — with a proof check on every file before it goes to press.

Choose Your Size
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