What is a greetings card?
Another great way to send your mail!
A greetings card is a mail item that doesn’t require an envelope. Instead, the material is folded and sealed for direct mailing, with the postage, address, and return address printed on the exterior. Self-mailers are popular for sending promotional content, newsletters, and other communications.
We offer greetings cards in the popular and familiar A5 size with the portrait or landscape options. These are folded from A4 down to A5 size (bi-fold) and sealed with small clear sticky tabs to meet mailing requirements.
Check out and download all the design specifications here.
Correctly orientating your mail
When designing a bi-fold greetings card, the orientation of the content on both pages is essential to avoid misalignment or upside-down elements once folded.
If your design is entirely portrait in our designer there is no need to worry. Everything should be oriented correctly.
However, if you intend to use a landscape design, you will need to consider how the document looks when folded. The content on the front and back page should be inversed in their direction in order for them to match up when folded.
It can help to visualise this on a piece of paper. Take any letter rotate it to your intended design layout and write "this way up" and an arrow pointing to the correct way up. Also do this on the back of the page. Finally, fold the letter in half and review the results.
If the design is the right way up then proceed! However, if the design is the wrong way up you may need to inverse the rotation by 180.