Eco Friendly Business Card Printing Recycled, Sustainable Cards, Printed in Exeter, UK
High-quality business cards for UK businesses, printed in-house in Exeter on FSC certified stock and carbon balanced as standard.
A printed business card still earns its place. It stays in a wallet, on a desk or in a drawer, and it tells a prospect something about how you work before you have said a word. We print business cards for UK businesses that want the card to do the brand justice, not just carry a phone number.
Everything is produced in-house at our Exeter studio, family-run since 1986. Choose from FSC certified stocks, including a 350gsm 100% recycled option, add finishes such as spot UV, foiling or soft touch lamination, and we print, finish and check the result under one roof.
Minster
“We were very impressed with the quality, service and the great consideration they have of the environment with the inks and papers they use. We will definitely be recommending them to everyone!”
Business Card Stocks and Weights
Every card we print is on FSC certified and responsibly sourced stock, and because we print bespoke, you are not limited to a set list: we can print your cards on any weight or type of stock, coated, uncoated, recycled or textured, and we can recommend what suits the design and use.
For quick ordering, our online shop carries three proven stocks:
- 350gsm Silk (minimum 40% recycled), a smooth coated stock that keeps colours crisp
- 350gsm Smooth Uncoated, a natural, tactile finish that takes pen and ink well
- 350gsm 100% Recycled Uncoated, our fully recycled option, with no drop in quality
Want something heavier, a specialist stock or a finish the shop does not list?
Call us or request a quote and we will print it as a bespoke project.
Finishes and Options
Make every piece stand out with premium print finishes.
On business cards we offer:
- Spot UV and foiling to lift a logo or detail
- Soft touch, matt and gloss lamination
- Single or double sided, landscape or portrait
- Square or rounded corners
The standard UK size is 85 x 55mm. Bespoke sizes and shapes are available on request, so if you want a square card or a non-standard cut, we will quote it as a bespoke project. Embossing, debossing and metallic ink are part of our wider print techniques; ask us if you want to feature them on your business card.
Carbon Balanced & Sustainable
Sustainability is built into how we print, not added on at the end. We are a Carbon Balanced Printer through the World Land Trust, and our carbon-balanced paper comes at no extra cost to you.
So if eco credentials matter to your brand, your business cards can reflect that without compromise: choose our 100% recycled FSC certified stock and the card is both fully recycled and carbon balanced.
You can find more detail about the points below on our eco-friendly printing page.
- Carbon Balanced Printer through the World Land Trust
- FSC certified and ISO 14001 accredited
- 100% green energy and zero landfill
- Plastic-free packaging
Why Print Your Business Cards with Ashley House
Ordering business cards from us is a different experience to a template checkout. You get advice from a printer who runs every stage in-house; our team are involved from proof to delivery.
Send us your artwork or an idea and we will tell you what will reproduce well and where the value is in your specification, then print it on the right stock, in the right quantity, to the quality finish your brand needs.
When you work with us, you get:
- Everything in-house on our HP Indigo 7900 for most quantities and Heidelberg Speedmaster presses for larger runs, with design, pre-press, proofing and our own bindery under one roof in Exeter
- FSC certified and 100% recycled stocks, carbon balanced as standard
- Premium finishes: spot UV, foiling and soft touch lamination
- Over 40 years in print: See some of the brands we work with here
- Quick turnaround with UK-wide delivery
Our professional business card design service
We can design your cards as well as print them. Our in-house studio designs for businesses that do not have a designer, and works alongside in-house teams that do, so a card can start from your brand guidelines or from a rough idea.
Because the designers sit in the same building as the presses and the bindery, the artwork is built around the stock, the finish and the trim from the start.
Our wider graphic design consultancy covers everything we print, so your cards can sit alongside matching letterheads, compliment slips and brochures.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The UK standard is 85 x 55mm. We also print bespoke sizes and shapes on request, so if you want a square card or a non-standard cut, we can quote for it.
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Yes. Single or double sided, landscape or portrait, with square or rounded corners, all as standard.
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Yes. Our online shop carries a 350gsm 100% recycled FSC stock, and for bespoke orders we can print on a wide range of recycled and FSC certified papers in other weights and finishes.
Every card is carbon balanced as standard through the World Land Trust.
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Spot UV, foiling, and soft touch, matt or gloss lamination. Embossing, debossing and metallic ink are available on request.
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A print-ready PDF with 3mm bleed, crop marks, CMYK and 300dpi is ideal. We also work from InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop files.
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We print with a quick turnaround and our delivery is tracked nationwide via DPD or pallet services for larger projects.
Delivery is quoted as part of your order.
Ask us for timings on your quantity and finish and we will confirm a date.
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Yes. Our in-house design studio can create the card from scratch or set up artwork from your existing brand guidelines, and we will advise on stock and finish while the design is still open to change.
If you already have a designer, our pre-press team checks their files before anything is printed. The full service is on our graphic design consultancy page.
Some of the companies we print for
We’re here to help.
Have a question about business card printing?
Our friendly team are here in Exeter, Devon, Mon-Fri 8am to 5:30pm.
