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Me: oh thanks for printing these.. um, I included a bleed how come there’s white space?
Printer: what’s a bleed?
Me: um, where the colour goes to the edge of the page
Boss listening in: there’s no lazer printer in the WORLD that does a bleed girl, they print it bigger and guillotine it
Me: em, can you do that for me then please, i don’t really care how it’s done to be honest
Boss: but you didn’t give us the document in a bigger size
Me: I included a 10mm bleed on what I sent
Boss: oh right *disappears
Me: era it’s grand, I’ll take it anyway (they clearly have never guillotined anything and have little idea what i’m on about)
Staff: sorry about that, I can discount the lamination tho, it’s probably a more commercial printer that can do a bleed for you, sorry I didn’t know what it was
Me: no worries :)

Why not just say, you can get bleed done elsewhere, but WE don’t do it! Easy!!

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I just found a great link, the best of business card design

If you are in a design slump, looking for inspiration, its a great feature article, I personally think the stretchable card is the most creative!

And having searched a bit more, here’s a pool of amazing business cards on Flickr!

And a few more I found on Flickr below-

If anyone has a cool business card design they would like featured, just leave a comment below (I’ll be the only one that can see your email address), and I’ll email you back to get an image!

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