Artistic extras
Stick with a best-selling stock or dare to be different with a stand-out paper. There’s a huge range of options available, from amazing colours and metallics to stock made from seaweed.
We love working with custom cutter guides to create unique shapes whilst exciting coloured inks add a special touch. The latest print innovations are a favourite topic of conversation so we always welcome a chat about your ideas.
Many artists, designers and makers also commission printed greetings cards from us in order to make their original artwork accessible to everyone. Naturally, we can be relied upon to maintain colours precisely from order to order.
Birthday cards
Greetings cards
Occasion cards
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Greetings Card Printing FAQs
Orphans works with a wide range of card sizes—standard greetings, birthday, occasion cards, plus bespoke shapes with custom die-cutting. Typical formats include A6, A5, square, and landscape/portrait layouts
Orphans offers top-quality stocks from GF Smith, Fedrigoni, seaweed paper, metallics, textures, and coloured boards—perfect for creating artistic, tactile, and distinctive cards .
Absolutely. Orphans can produce unique card shapes using your own cutter guides, ideal for standout designs and creative executions .
We use both HP Indigo digital (ideal for short runs, special inks like metallics/fluorescents, white ink on dark stocks) and B2 Heidelberg litho for longer runs with excellent colour consistency.
Yes, the HP Indigo press enables metallic silver/gold, fluorescent hues, and white ink. These effects can be layered on coloured or dark boards to elevate your design.
Absolutely. Stocks include recycled, FSC-certified, seaweed paper, and more. Orphans also offers carbon-balanced printing in partnership with sustainability programmes like World Land Trust.
Orphans can supply coordinated envelopes tailored to your card sizes. Ask about additional packing such as cello bags or custom wraps to elevate presentation and protection.