Bulk Print DIY Business Cards Using Illustrator !!!

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comes to you courtesy of Jodi who had an awesome question I thought this week and
how do you DIY bulk print business cards at home and being a DIY or myself of Bulk Print DIY Business Cards Using Illustrator !!! course I've done this before of actually DIY
single business card I've ever
made for myself personally I have a little bit of experience setting these
up and of course I just wanted to claim this is exactly how I would do and have
done in the past everyone's ways are different but I want to show you and
share with you today
exactly how I do it and make sure you watch until the end of this video
cheap cards printed because I've got a special surprise for all of you at the end so that's sad
really get started I threw together this quick business card design and this
watercolor texture that i meeting is part of my watercolor texture kit
monument to which I leave a link to you wanna see other textures that are part
of that kid that's what I used right here to put this very quickly business
card together and as you can see we better front of the business card and
hit the back of the business cards and I've also included a bleed in abilene is
extremely important if you had any artwork that quote unquote leads off of
the actual our porn so since this texture extends beyond the regular board
I need to make sure that my front and my back of the card has a clean line in the
way that you apply this show really quick so this is the standard size of a
business card is three and a half inches by two inches here in the us- and in
order to set this file up I did file new and all I did over here as I said maybe
but two three and a half inches my height
inches and then right here
where it says believe this record in point one to five inches and that is the
standard for a bleed on a business card and then if you toggle done this little
advanced air right here just make sure color motor CMYK because of you are
printing in whenever you print anything you wanna make sure color mode is set to
CMYK
ok so all that said I hit OK and then I had this are portrayed here in this red
line is your believe live so leave the really important because when you're
printing the sound you go to cut it yourself you don't want any weird like
stray whites livers of lines because no one can really cut a line is so
perfectly that you wouldn't even have a little airline of wait to see what she'd
give yourself a little breathing room when you're cutting so this is what this
little blue line allows the space race when a bit of an inch allows you a
little room for error as you're cutting out so right now we've got the front of
our business here we have the back of a business card and now I'm gonna show you
how I set it up in Illustrator to print in bulk at home just using my regular
old home printer and because I'm using a home printer that means my keeper side
by
inches portrait so we're just gonna come up here and go style now and
we're gonna make sure right here I've got it set to letter which defaults to
you in half by
I do not need to bleed on this because I don't have anything
extending beyond the edges of the sheet of paper and i wanna make sure once
again you talk about on this advanced air that it is a mi que and its
PPI
which is the print resolution standard and they're gonna ok all right we just
have a plain white sheet of paper here and I need my ruler so many commander
control our own a PC in what they do that rulers right here if you don't have
enjoyed showing up regularly introduce right click on here you can change your
settings have gotten just good to go
alright so this is how I do it which some people may think it's not the most
mathematical way ever but it totally works for me every single time so we
share with you my keyboard and this is my rectangle Tory I'm gonna do is double
click and I'm gonna put in three and a half inches by two inches so we're gonna
pretend like this is the seismic are so I have a three and a half by two inch
and if I replicate the seminar hold all and as a dragon
shift to keep it straight and if you do a little bit of math this link three and
a half inches this link is three and a half and just so that seven inches and a
half inches with my paper and I have space right here that I need space
between the cards in the name of space on the edge that I need to account for
got seven inches that make up the card and I'm leftover with one and a half
just so if we do just some basic math calculator alright so we have one and a
half inches and we have three areas that we need to account for between those two
cards I made by by three when you do that it's half an inch so come back into
Illustrator I know I need half an entry here happened right here in half an
entry here so come up here I'm just going to click on this left click and
drag until I had happened it and then release and then if I just drag this
business card over to that edge and i click and drag again this ad should land
rate or in this needs to be another half-inch apart that would put it for
free here and if I drag this business card over once again I need this half an
inch brings me to the edge of the page for this purpose so we've got our
vertical spacing all set so if I copy the address rubber bands like them both
of them holding all clicking and dragging holding shift to keep them
straight and if I grab these again you can see comfortably I can fit eight
cards in this is called an eight up comfortably I can fit a cards on the
same house by
inch sheet of paper so now I have two inches right here two
inches right here to hear into here so that's eight inches and the entire
length of my paper is
inches and I need to account for
spaces so many
graphic calculator again
ken and I have my say
is three inches and we have
basis so that's
point six ok so they come back in here and this is where it gets a little bit
funky but it's this is another little cheat of mine so men had and I'm a
keyboard and I need a height of point six inches so I don't have to like
figure all the math every time half an inch was easy but


little difference I'm gonna flip flop these get rid of my stroke and now I
just have this block that's the right height so if I drag it to the top of my
are portrayed here and then I can just click and drag and this is where I need
to set my first business card that line right here so then I know I can just
write the story here
same thing again
and then I can just drag this last guy
this and now I can delete cards you know I kind of have a rough layout so now in
a draw and my own trim marks because with the bleed we need to make sure we
have marks to trim so we know exactly where to cut the paper so if I come up
here I'm just gonna hit like the backslash key on your keyboard to rate
your line to learn here just wanna make sure you have to fill on this you just
wanna make sure you have a stroke and I usually keep it up the default one point
so it's not for me to see and don't even worry about it bleeding off the page you
just want to make sure you come close to the finding that touch this line
otherwise it'll rent on your actual card and I just gonna set fees and then I can
also select all the all ships drag these babies down here and that those are set
and then I'm gonna come over here and do the exact same thing
alright last thing we need to worry about is our bleed and like we talked
about before we have an eighth of an inch so we can do the math vertically
and we're going to use our little cheap for the horizontal areas just because
we'll get really funky if we don't ok so right here I need to come back and even
an inch which is half of a quarter of an inch is right there and that's all just
help me line up exactly where my card goes
ok now for this purpose gonna use metal she and hitting a manicure double
clicking and now this time I hate to be any evidence reversed that directory
here
ok so now we have verbally lines and here in this is our templates if I come
over here to my layers I'm going to label this trim and good and I'm gonna
like this where create a new layer and this could be my artwork Claire gonna
jump back original business card designs and we're going to export each of these
as a high res jpegs I'm gonna go file export and she's gonna put it to use
JPEG done here use our boards definitely make sure this is checked and make sure
all so we save as JPEG that has a bleed the believe will be included on that jpg
expert this time to make sure my quality is all the way up to maximum
and that
my resolution is
and it seemed like a good ok and that's saved and I'm gonna
jump over here make sure you're trimming guidelines are locked when you get hit
while place and choose the front of my card and I'm just gonna drop this rain
here since we dragged our bags we know exactly where it needs to go some level

shift drag both of these in the sport's really fastest dropping a man
you know you have to eat up that's perfectly mathematically correct and if
you want your back to be created as well make sure you unlock this otherwise are
trademarks are going to carry over to know and then you're going to have this
little icon over here for our board tool and as you're covered over you got the
cross hairs on your border and hold Alt drag old ships and this can make a copy
you're not going to get those vertical lines in here because we are guides
relax but that's ok because we've already got hurt remarks drawn so now
you can realize you're trimming guidelines come back to your artwork
clear and you're just gonna select all of your car
cards and then you're gonna come over here to your links tell you can get two
lines by going when do thanks and you're just gonna have this little linkbutton
right here in this will really think those in your just gonna have to do this
eight times which is a little known but the back of your card so there you go
so when this princess you're going to have your little trademark so gonna take
your ruler and line it up with this mark in this market then you're gonna make
your cut down here and they're gonna leave your ruler cross the stopping of
bob you're gonna cut so then definitely do a test run before you really good
paper to make sure you're putting the paper in the right way because obviously
wants to its the thought you want to turn it around and flip it over the
right way so you know your actual business card over you don't have one
star that's upside down and once I that's right side out so just want to
make sure that you do that
Joe test run first make sure you've got your method all figured out and then you
can print this out as many times as you need to and you get a business cards out
of each sheet of paper that you have so this is how I would balk print DIY your
own personal business cards and if you stayed with me through this little more
boring but very very important and tutorial my gift to you is I'm going to
give you this illustrator template to use for yourself so if you go over to my
blog every hyphen Tuesday dot com also leave a link here you can go over there
and you can download this in it will open with any version of illustrator cs
or newer so all this work will have been done for you so all you have to do is
drop your business cards and if your business cards are sized three and a
half inches by two inches tall so if you enjoyed this tutorial please subscribe
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freebies including this freebie this week thanks so much for watching and
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