Foil Postcards

Custom Foil Postcards for Eye-Catching Communication

Give your message a distinctive finish with custom foil postcards from Pixartprinting. Designed for both business and personal communication, foil postcards combine full-color printing with special effects that can highlight selected parts of your artwork. Use them for product launches, promotional campaigns, event announcements, invitations, direct mail, thank-you messages, premium offers, or any project where you want important details to stand out.

With Pixartprinting, you can personalize your postcards by choosing the size, orientation, printed sides, paper type, and special finish that best suits your design. Orders start from just 25 copies, making it easy to produce a short run for a specific event or test campaign as well as larger quantities for broader communication projects.

Foil Postcard Sizes and Orientations

The right format helps balance images, branding, promotional copy, and contact information. Pixartprinting offers foil postcards in six sizes, giving you options for compact messages as well as larger, more visual layouts:

• 4" x 6" – a classic postcard format suited to direct mail, promotions, and short messages.
• 4.2" x 5.5" – a compact size for invitations, announcements, and branded handouts.
• 5" x 7" – a versatile format with extra room for imagery and promotional content.
• 5.5" x 8.5" – ideal when your design needs more space for graphics, offers, or event information.
• 6" x 9" – a larger format that gives photographs and bold layouts greater visual presence.
• 6" x 11" – the largest available option, suitable for campaigns that need additional space for content and strong visual impact.

You can choose a vertical or horizontal orientation depending on your artwork. Printing is available on the front only or on the front and back. A double-sided postcard gives you more room to separate visual communication from practical information such as contact details, a call to action, an address, or event information.

Paper Types for Foil Postcards

Your choice of paper influences both the look and feel of the finished postcard. Pixartprinting offers two 16pt premium coated options for foil postcard printing:

• 16pt Premium Matte: a smooth coated paper with a sophisticated, shine-free finish. Its refined, silk-like feel on both sides works well for designs that call for a clean, understated presentation and creates an elegant contrast with reflective or raised details.
• 16pt Premium Glossy: a sleek coated paper with a glossy front surface that reflects light and helps colors and details appear vivid. The silky back provides a polished feel, making this stock a strong choice for image-led designs and bold promotional graphics.

When configuring your order, select the paper that best complements your artwork and chosen finish. The appearance of metallic or embossed details can change depending on the surrounding colors, paper surface, and amount of contrast in the design.

What Does "Foil Printed" Mean?

In foil printing, selected elements of the design receive a special decorative finish rather than simply being reproduced with standard ink. This makes it possible to emphasize a logo, headline, border, icon, pattern, or other graphic detail with a metallic, raised, or glossy effect. On Pixartprinting foil postcards, the special finish is applied to the front side of the postcard.

The effect works best when it is used selectively. Instead of covering the entire design, foil or embossed details can direct attention toward the most important visual elements. This makes foil postcards particularly useful for premium invitations, promotional mailers, launch announcements, branded cards, and campaigns where tactile and reflective details are part of the creative concept.

Special Finishes for Custom Foil Postcards

Pixartprinting offers several single-sided special finishes, allowing you to choose the visual effect that best matches your design:

• Single Sided Foil Accent: add a metallic foil effect to selected areas of your artwork. Use it to emphasize logos, lettering, graphic elements, or decorative details with a reflective finish.
• Single Sided Gold Embossed Foil: apply raised gold foil to selected elements for a metallic shine combined with a tactile, embossed effect.
• Single Sided Silver Embossed Foil: highlight chosen parts of the design with raised silver foil for a reflective metallic effect and noticeable texture.
• Single Sided Embossed Gloss: use a thick, transparent spot coating to create raised glossy areas on selected elements of your design. This option adds texture and contrast without introducing a metallic color.

Special finishes are intended for selected areas of the artwork and are available according to the product configuration. When preparing a print-ready file, follow the downloadable template and finishing instructions provided by Pixartprinting so the elements that require the special effect are correctly identified.

Foil Accent Postcards

Foil accent postcards are a versatile choice when you want to introduce metallic highlights without making gold or silver the central feature of the design. A foil accent can be used on a logo, product name, decorative line, illustration detail, or callout to create contrast against the printed background. The result is especially effective when the metallic areas are integrated into a clean design with enough space around them to remain clearly visible.

Gold Foil Postcards

Gold foil postcards use raised gold foil to combine color, shine, and texture. They are well suited to premium invitations, hospitality communications, luxury product launches, event promotions, membership mailers, or brand campaigns that use gold as part of their visual identity. Because the foil is raised, the highlighted elements can be both seen and felt, adding a tactile layer to the printed piece.

Silver Foil Postcards

Silver foil postcards offer a bright metallic effect with a cooler visual tone. Raised silver foil can be used to emphasize typography, logos, geometric details, borders, or other selected elements. It can complement minimal designs, monochrome graphics, contemporary branding, technology-related campaigns, or any artwork where a silver metallic highlight supports the overall visual style.

Embossed Gloss Postcards

If you want a raised effect without metallic gold or silver, embossed gloss is an alternative. The transparent spot coating is applied to selected areas to create a glossy, tactile surface that contrasts with the surrounding print. It can be used to highlight a logo, pattern, text, image detail, or other graphic element while keeping the original printed colors visible beneath the finish.

How to Order Foil Postcards with Pixartprinting

Ordering custom foil postcards online is straightforward. Start by selecting the size and orientation that fit your design. Then choose whether you want printing on the front only or on both the front and back. Select your preferred 16pt Premium Matte or 16pt Premium Glossy paper and choose the special finish you want to apply to the front.

1. Choose your format: select one of the available postcard sizes and a vertical or horizontal orientation.
2. Select the printed sides: choose front-only printing or print on both the front and back.
3. Choose your paper: select 16pt Premium Matte or 16pt Premium Glossy.
4. Add your special finish: choose Foil Accent, Gold Embossed Foil, Silver Embossed Foil, or Embossed Gloss.
5. Select the quantity: orders start from just 25 copies, with additional quantities available in the online configurator.
6. Check price and delivery options: review the price table generated for your selected configuration.
7. Prepare and upload your artwork: download the template and follow the file setup instructions, paying particular attention to the elements that will receive the special finish.
8. Complete your order: upload your print file, confirm your options, and proceed with your purchase.

How Much Does Foil Printing Cost?

The cost of foil postcard printing depends on the configuration you select. Size, paper type, whether you print on one or both sides, the chosen special finish, quantity, and delivery option can all affect the final price. For this reason, there is no single fixed price that applies to every foil postcard order.

Use the price grid on the Pixartprinting product page to compare the available combinations. Once you select your specifications, the configurator displays the corresponding prices and delivery options, allowing you to choose the solution that best fits your project and budget. Quantities start from 25 copies, so you can also compare a short run with higher-volume options directly online.

Foil Postcards and Other Marketing Materials

Foil postcards can be used on their own or as part of a coordinated print campaign. Explore the full range of Marketing Materials from Pixartprinting to create consistent communication across different formats. Pair your foil postcards with Custom Flyers for wider distribution, use Custom Invitations for events and special occasions, or choose Brochures when you need more room to present products, services, or detailed information.

Whether you are creating a limited run for an event or preparing a larger marketing campaign, Pixartprinting gives you the flexibility to configure foil postcards around your artwork, message, and quantity. Choose your format, paper, printed sides, and special finish, then order online starting from just 25 copies.