Spot UV Designs

Spot UV in printing is the application of an Ultra Violet gloss coating that creates a glossy finish on your designs.  Best used to highlight larger areas or designs and is not recommended for thin detail.

Supplying your files

Spot UV artwork should be supplied as the spot UV design itself as well as your artwork. The spot UV artwork should consist of solid black shapes (100% Black only) in the exact position on the page where spot UV is required supplied in vector format. The Spot UV artwork should be on a separate page but have the same dimensions and crop marks in the same position as the design artwork.

Please note, Spot UV is applied using a process similar to screen printing, and has registration tolerances of approximately ±0.5 mm and is therefore not recommended for small text or thin lines.

Spot UV Business Cards

Please supply as 1 print-ready PDF file, containing 4 pages, as follows:

Page 1: Artwork Front

Page 2: Artwork Back

Page 3: Spot UV Front

Page 4: Spot UV Back

Single Sided UV

For a single-sided Spot UV Business Card, please supply a 2-page PDF file, page 1 being the artwork and page 2 being the spot UV artwork.

If the client wants single sided UV but a double-sided print, the order still needs to be placed as a double-sided business card and we require a 4 page file. Follow these instructions:

1. If you have a page that doesn’t require either artwork or Spot UV, please insert a blank page so you always supply 4 pages in the correct order.
2. To insert a blank page into your print-ready PDF, firstly create a blank PDF that is 85 x 55mm
3. Combine your files using Acrobat’s Combine PDF function, or alternatively, insert the blank page into the PDF by using Acrobat’s Insert Page function.