Business card slitter and thick cover stock

I could and do cut them on my champion 305 but sometimes that mashes the impression out of cards that have a sculptural feel to the design.

I don’t think there’s anything truer to a cut than a sharp blade on a real cutter.
To prevent mashing your impression out, pad it more.

These machines that cut business cards generally struggle with weights above 250gsm ,i would happily put money against them cutting 400 mic board , you may get it through ok but the machine would not be going for long before it fails you , i know where there is one in a digi print company , it ran half a dozen jobs before failing on 3oo gsm its been sat in the corner since in a dispute with the dealership for at least two years . I think die cutting is not such a bad way of processing business cards esp as its the best way to round corner if needed, unless you are doing huge length runs the hour setting and running a thousand cards is not so slow seeing as you want to retain teh print impression.

I pad my cutter pretty well but there are some jobs on soft paper where I prefer not to mash at all.

I think die cutting is the way

Thanks!

~ j