art card prices

Non Members are very welcome to use Thumbnail for their Printing requirements. A £2.00 per image fee is added as a design/handling charge to all Non-Members. Cards are supplied individually folded & packed in Biodegradable Bags with 100% recycled white diamond flap envelopes ready for reasale. Please contact us for prices on orders over 500 Cards.

Add a RePostcard or Internal Greeting

All internal printing on Cards is charged at an additional 5p per Card for plain text or 10p per Card for full colour. Please give us your instructions for this during Step 1 below.

RePostcard is a great way to encourage your customers to think sustainably, providing a pre-marked Postcard layout on the reverse of the image which can be easily removed, re-purposed, re-gifted!

Postcard Prices

Printed full colour one side with Postcard layout on reverse.

100 x Postcards (max 2 Designs) £40.00

200 x Postcards (max 4 Designs) £70.00

500 x Postcards (max 6 Designs) £150.00

1000 x Postcards (max 20 Designs) £250.00

Postage charged separately (See below)

Key Points

  • £2 per image is added as a design/handling charge to all Non-Members

  • Our Cards are Printed & Hand finished using high-quality 300gsm White Silk Coated Artboard.

  • Thumbnail Cards are supplied individually packed with fully recycled white envelopes in plant based biodegradable bags, ready for re-sale.

  • Our most popular sizes for Art Cards with Traders are the 1812 & Large Square.

  • All prices above are per card, based on the quantities listed & include VAT

  • Please order your Cards in batches of 12 cards per image. These can be added together to make up the total order in terms of the pricing thresholds listed above.

step by step guide to card ordering

Step 1 - Email us your designs

Please send files to:

keith@thumbnailmedia.com

If you are sending lots of images, we recommend the free version of ‘WeTransfer’ which allows multiple files to be sent simultaneously without clogging up your emails.

Files should be supplied as JPEGs, PDFs or TIFFs. Please send them as digitally large as your system or device will allow. For Cards we recommend a minimum of 1MB at 300dpi. If you get stuck or you’re just not sure, please email Keith for friendly advice. Receiving a good quality starting point will ensure you will love your end results.

IMPORTANT! Please right click on each file to rename them as your Card design before sending. This will help us at Thumbnail to identify and retrieve your images. If images are all from a similar set of works, use a system, eg Seascape I, Seascape II and so on.

When sending your files to Keith, please write him an accompanying email to let him know the following details:

  • Your Name (pen name if different to your actual name!)

  • The Image Names

  • Which Card size you would like for each image supplied

  • Any requests for specific Fonts, Logos or Internal Text eg RePostcard, to be added

  • Any cropping or colour adjustments required

  • Billing/Delivery Address

Step 2 - Proofing

When all files have been submitted to us with copy instructions as above, each card design is sent to you via email as a screen proof layout. You may be able to see crop marks and more than one card on the flat plan, this is because we print onto large sheets. Please take your time with each proof to carefully check the layout; the wording on the back, spacing, spelling and any other requests you made at the start. This is your chance to make sure we are all ready to press print on your Card Order!

Alterations should be clearly listed via email to keith@thumbnailmedia.com and you will continue to receive revision proofs until such time as you both agree that perfection has been reached.

NB: Optional Hard Proofs are produced on request at a cost of £2.50/card inc UK p&p. These are generally not required, particularly if you have put effort into sending a high quality file at the beginning of the process, but let us know if this is your preference.

Step 3 - Approval & Payment

We need to hear from you in writing (via email) to sign off your Screen Proofs. Now is also the time to talk to the other half of Thumbnail to place your order. Please email amanda@thumbnailmedia.com with your list of Image Titles, Cards Sizes and quantities for each (minimum 12 of each Card). Your request will be transferred to an invoice which we will email to you, detailing your order, postage costs (see below), delivery address and total amount to pay. You will find Bank Details at the bottom of the invoice and all payments are kindly requested as per this information as a Bank Transfer via online or telephone banking. We will confirm receipt of payment and add your order to the Print queue.

Step 4 - Wait for your Cards

Orders take around 7-12 days in ‘normal’ circumstances and by ‘normal’, we mostly mean not Christmas! If our lead times are stretched in any way, we will let you know and equally, if you need extra fast service for an event or deadline, be sure to tell us at the start so we can do our best to get your Card Order to you in good time.

Step 5 - Decide how you’d like to work with us in the future

We offer all the work of setting up your first order without charging our Design Fee, regardless of how many images you supply. On subsequent Orders, a £2 per image design/retireval fee is added to the cost of printing and supplying the Cards.

Members pay a one off annual charge which caps the total spend on image fees at £95.00. This means that image fees are free to Members once they exceed 48 images in a year of Card Printing. Do please check out our Membership options to build a working relationship with us at Thumbnail for your future Orders.

Whether you decide to work with us on an ad hoc Non-Member basis, or you choose to grow a portfolio of your own product layouts here under one of our subsriptions, you are most welcome and we thank you for choosing Thumbnail to print your Art Cards.

UK mainland delivery charges:

Up to 50 Cards £4.00

50 - 80 Cards £6.00

100 - 250 Cards £16 Royal Mail or £12 Courier

250 + Cards Courier prices start at £17