DOORFRONT · Business Card Lab · Single-Sided

2,000 Doors Solo

One giant stamp-ink number does all the talking, with hand-drawn tally clusters ghosted behind it: one ink color on cream stock, built for the cheapest single-sided print run a printer offers.

Print Spec

Trim size
3.5 x 2.0 in, landscape, standard rectangle. No die-cut.
Sides
Single-sided. One printed face, blank back. Order the 1-sided (4/0) option; it is the cheapest run at any online printer, and several budget printers only offer it.
Stock and finish
14pt uncoated. Cream or natural stock if the printer carries it; otherwise standard uncoated white works because the cream field is printed edge to edge as part of the art.
Printer note
Cheap single-sided runs: GotPrint, Vistaprint basic, UPrinting. Upload the art as one flat file with bleed. Skip coatings, rounded corners, and painted edges.
Rough cost
About $10 to $18 per 500 and $15 to $28 per 1,000 for a 1-sided 14pt run, before shipping. Prices move with promos; single-sided is always the floor.
Bleed
Build the file at 3.75 x 2.25 in (0.125 in bleed on all sides). Keep all live copy, including the QR tile and bottom contact line, at least 0.125 in inside trim.
Phone
(602) 824-8169 is the live business number (Google Voice). It appears once, in the bottom contact line.
QR code
The QR is real and scans to doorfront.bysda.com. Keep it dark ink on the light tile with its quiet zone intact, at 0.55 in or larger on the printed card. Never invert it or set it over texture.
Ink logic: one color. The numeral, tallies, type, and QR are all the same deep terracotta; the tallies are a screened tint of that ink, so this file also survives a true 1-color press run.