The Best Types Of Plastic Business Cards: Design Templates for Beginners [Free Download]

In the world of digital marketing, email, copywriting, and everything being online, you might be wondering if the world even needs custom plastic business cards! Well, they do, and your business needs to be printing plastic business cards to reach a brand new customer base.

Plastic business cards are very impressive because not a lot of people are using them to promote their business. They provide a tactical reminder of your business that customers and clients can hang up on their fridges or keep in their wallets to make sure that they always know about your content.

What Is The Best Material For Business Cards?

One of the best materials for a business card is plastic (PVC). It is much thicker than paper and feels better in your hand, and it also offers a lot of customizability for you. Plastc business cards usually comes with size of 2.125 x 3.375” which is the same size as a credit card. The traditional size 2 x 3.5” are also very popular in the market.

Printing a good set of plastic business cards can help you impress your clients and can allow you and your business to stand out.

However, there's a fine line between your card being something that is placed on the fridge and thrown out in the trash. Often this choice is made at the design for your plastic business cards, and if you want to impress your customers you need to have a good business card design.

Here are some free design templates for printing plastic business cards, and you can certainly find one that will work for your own business.

How To Use This Template?

Using these templates require a little bit of knowledge about graphic editors like Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Once you download one of our free templates, you can open it with your preferred designing software.

Once the card is loaded, then the customization process can get started and you can make this card yours. You can change the color scheme of your card, the logo, and add or edit any information about your business.

Once the card has been completed, then you can take them to a plastic card supplier and have them be printed out of plastic.

As a plastic card manufacturer, we only focus on plastic card printing, so we don’t offer a design service. But if you have any question about editing this template, please feel free to drop us a line HERE.

Who Can Use This Template?

Everyone! We offer these templates up for free so you don't have to pick and choose. Whether you are a freelancer looking to drum up business for your service, an startup entrepreneur who wants to connect with customers, or an established business that wants an advertising edge on the competition, everyone can find some use out of our collection of templates.

You just need to pick what type of template is the best for your specific business.

Easy? Let's get started!

Template Collection

1. Networking

Size: 2.125 x 3.375”
Recommended thickness: 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Glossy finish, Raised Spot UV
Suitable for: IT company, Construction company
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This plastic business card is all business, which allows you to share your name and company logo on the front, and then the contact information on the back of the card.

It's succinct, easy to use, and conveys all your information without any extra hassle. The perfect plastic card to get started with.

2. Retail

Size: 2.125 x 3.375”
Recommended thickness: 0.5mm, 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Matte finish, Spot UV, Hot foil stamp
Suitable for: Bakery, Café, Crafters, Event planner
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Retail cards are the best if you are opting to have a little charm into your business card. These cards typically share a message with their design and also communicate the style of the store. These plastic cards are designed to be fun to look at!

3. Service

Size: 2.125 x 3.375”
Recommended thickness: 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Glossy lamination, NFC chip embedded
Suitable for: Home repair service, Painters
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Cards that offer a service prominently display the company logo on the card, along with more information than a retail card. They will list the niche that the service is in, followed by the different services they offer.

The goal of these plastic business cards is to show off all the services, while also being eye-catching. The potential customer needs to see the card, and then connect the card to the service that they need.

4. Technology

Size: 2.125 x 3.375”
Recommended thickness: 0.36mm, 0.5mm, 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Matte/Frosted finish, Spot UV, Hot foil stamp, NFC chip embedded
Suitable for: Psychologists, Counselors
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Cards for Technology services are designed to be minimalist in the design services department and very powerful in information. This is a good plastic card design if you want your information to take center stage, without cluttering the card up.

5. Luxury

Size: 2.125 x 3.375”
Recommended thickness: 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Matte finish, Spot UV, Hot foil stamp, Embossed name
Suitable for: Boutique, Catering, Realtors
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With luxury cards, they should be professionally designed to look very luxurious and wealthy, almost looking elegant in their design services. They are minimalist and are just pleasant to look at with their high quality.

We suggest using Matte lamination to bring them a non-reflective surface and adding a Hot foil stamp or Spot UV to the Logo to make it looks sharp and shiny. This way, you will get a card with a velvety touch. Than the shiny Logo in the centre will grab your client’s attention.  

6. Creatives

Size: 2 x 3.5”
Recommended thickness: 0.38mm, 0.50mm
Recommended print features: Matte finish, Spot UV
Suitable for: Filmmakers, Artists, Cleaning
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If you are a creative mind, then you can create a card is all about the logo and color scheme of your business. You want to focus on your logo because that is what people will remember about your business.

7. Wisdom

Size: 2 x 3.5”
Recommended thickness: 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Matte finish, Spot UV
Suitable for: Advocates, Lawyer, Architect, Doctor
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For a wisdom card, you want to cultivate trust with your prospective clients, and a wisdom card shows off all your contact information and what you do. Otherwise, the logo should remain minimalist to focus on your information.

8. Photography

Size: 2 x 3.5”
Recommended thickness: 0.5mm, 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Glossy finish, Spot UV
Suitable for: Photographers
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A Photography plastic business card should be very whimsical and focus on small fonts that are overwhelmed by the photo that you choose. The best way to get your clients to select your business is to show off your best photo on the business card design.

9. Freelancer

Size: 2 x 3.5”
Recommended thickness: 0.36mm, 0.50mm, 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Matte finish, Spot UV, QR code, NFC chip embedded
Suitable for: Freelancer, Hairdressers, Carpenters
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If you are a freelancer, you need your plastic business cards to give out the contact information and show off your works so prospective clients can know more about your service and ability!

To keep the card clean and minimalist, in this template, you could describe your services by a few sample texts, than take your clients to your personal profile or gig page by scanning the QR code.

Any smarter way? Well, plastic NFC business cards did the job nicely too. If your cards embedded with an NFC chip, all your clients need to do is tap the card with their smartphone, then they will be taken to your website, Linkedin or social media profile, etc.

10. Beauty

Size: 2.5 x 2.5”
Recommended thickness: 0.50mm, 0.76mm
Recommended print features: Matte finish, Spot UV
Suitable for: Beauty salon, Nails, Lawn care
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The card for beauty, nails, and other services should be beautiful to look at. This square plastic business cards are a special one. Take the time to make the custom colors look nice, and really ensure that your logo pops.

Bottom line

Getting some good plastic business cards doesn't need to be difficult at all. You can use all of our free templates to design, print, and then start giving out your fantastically designed printed business cards to watch your business grow!

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