DIY- your business cards by 96chany
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0. Supplies
- Materials you want to print on
- Your design file (either by illustrator or by CoreDraw)

1. Prepare materials
- Choose the right thickenss paper or wood
- I used 140lb(pounds per ream) or 300gsm(grams per square meter) tangerine paper and 1/64 tickness Plywood

 
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Step 1: Design your Biz Cards

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1. Use the Template file on Adobe (http://goo.gl/55sbi or download attached illustrator file)
- For this file, you only need to consider the red outline (blue outline makes your biz cards bigger than usual)


2. Consider which part you want to cut or engrave
- For cutting, you need to create the outlines of shapes or fonts
- Make the outlines less than 0.001 pt

Tip: Don't make the outline hidden by overlayering empty shapes (see the figure)

- For engraving, you need it to be rastered or its outline thick enough
- It depends on a laser cutting machine you use (typically more than 0.25 pt)
djkokalis says: Jan 13, 2013. 11:17 PM
can you make a how to video please?
Penolopy Bulnick says: Jan 10, 2013. 5:21 PM
Those look great! Do you happen to remember where you got your thin plywood?
apburner says: Jan 13, 2013. 1:59 PM
Any good hobby shop will have 1/64 plywood.
96chany (author) says: Jan 11, 2013. 8:31 AM
I bought it at Blick offline store. (http://www.dickblick.com/)
I also found it on Amazon by searching "plywood 1/8"
dreiseratops says: Jan 12, 2013. 9:28 AM
5 stars!
Looks great!
utestcw says: Jan 11, 2013. 5:08 AM
creative
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