Raised Spot UV Business Cards

Raised spot UV is one of our premium tactile finishes inside the wider business cards printing range, a clear-gloss cousin of foil for when you want shine without metal. It lands flat spot UV's same glossy contrast, then lifts it off the surface so it reads and feels richer. Want the gloss smooth and level with the stock instead of raised? The Spot UV Business Cards give you that same coating laid flush at a lower starting price.

The price follows the same pattern as the rest of our specialty cards. A set of 100 starts at $108.75, and the cost per card keeps dropping as you step up to 250, 500 or 1000. Tap any tier below to see the live set total and how much each jump saves before you commit.

What Is Raised Spot UV on a Business Card?

Raised spot UV is a clear gloss coating applied to a custom shape you choose, then cured under ultraviolet light and built up so it sits raised off the card with real height. Run a finger across it and you feel a defined ridge along every stroke of the logo or text, while the area around it stays soft and matte. On the 16pt Velvet Laminated Cover base, that lifted clear shine catches the light from an angle and reads as the most finished card in the stack. Flat varnish and printed gloss look bright too, but they sit level with the paper, so they lose the part people remember most: the feel.

How Is It Different From Flat Spot UV and Raised Foil?

Three close finishes, one quick way to tell them apart. Flat spot UV lays the same clear gloss flush with the stock, so it shines but stays smooth to the touch. Raised spot UV builds that gloss up thick so it stands off the surface with a ridge you feel. Raised Foil Business Cards use the exact same lifted technique, only in gold, silver or holographic metal instead of clear gloss. Want both effects on one card, raised foil and raised gloss together in a single pass? The Dual Raised Business Cards combine them. The full set of options on this card is laid out below exactly the way the live configurator groups it, so you know what you can change before you change it.

Here are a couple of easy ways to make a raised spot UV card pull its weight.

Save the gloss for one thing

Raised gloss hits hardest when it is not fighting itself. Put it on the logo, the name, or a single icon, and let the rest of the card stay matte velvet. A small patch of clear raised gloss against a deep matte field looks far richer than a card coated end to end, and it keeps the contrast that makes the finish work.

Print one side or both

Full color runs on the front only (4/0) or on both sides (4/4), and the raised gloss can sit on the front alone or carry across both faces. Put your logo and the raised accents up front, then run your contact details and a clean pattern on the back, so the card looks finished whichever way it lands on a desk.

Design it without a designer

You do not need a design background to lay one of these out. Start from a professionally built layout in our business card design templates, mark the area you want raised in clear gloss, then change the colors and copy in the online editor in minutes.

Already have your own artwork? Skip the editor and download a press-ready blank business card template built at the real 2" x 3.5" trim size, with the 1/8" bleed and the safe margin already drawn in. For the gloss layer, grab the raised spot UV blank template and mark exactly where the raised coating should land, drop your art in and upload.

How Many Raised Spot UV Cards Should You Order?

A card this tactile is built to be handed out, not hoarded, so order enough to actually give them away. A set of 100 starts at $108.75, and the per-card price keeps falling as you move toward 1000. Drag the slider below to set your quantity and watch both the set total and the true per-card cost update live, which makes it easy to find the point where one more step up barely moves the budget.

How Do Raised Spot UV Cards Compare to Other Finishes?

Raised spot UV is one of a few premium finishes worth weighing side by side. Flat spot UV gives you the same clear gloss laid level for less. Raised foil swaps clear gloss for raised metal in gold, silver or holographic. Raised Holographic Business Cards push a rainbow shift that moves with the card. And the everyday Standard Business Cards run on the same presses for far less when you want a plain card alongside the showpiece. The chart below lines them up by starting price so the trade-off is in plain numbers.

See How a Finished Raised Spot UV Card Lands

The lift is hard to picture from words alone. The gallery below collects raised spot UV cards printed in our own shop across different stocks and gloss placements, so you can see how the clear coating reads in real light and borrow ideas for your own layout. Tap any card to see it larger.

How Fast Can You Get Raised Spot UV Business Cards?

Raised spot UV business cards print on a 7 business day standard turnaround, and you can move that up to a 4 business day rush when a date is tight. Before anything prints you can lock in a free online proof, so you sign off on exactly where the raised gloss lands on your art, or choose Straight To Production when you already trust your file. Drop your ZIP code below to add the realistic ground delivery window on top of production, so you see the full timeline before you order, not after.

Quality comes first at 4OVER4.COM, and it is backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Our New York and Florida facilities and rush delivery options keep the trip short when the mail date sneaks up.

Tips for a Raised Spot UV File That Prints Clean

Raised gloss is unforgiving of a sloppy file, so the spot UV layer needs to be marked clearly and kept off the bleed. Run through the do's and don'ts below before you upload, on resolution, color mode, where the gloss sits and the safe margin, and your cards clear preflight on the first try with no back-and-forth.

See the Rest of Our Business Cards

Raised spot UV is one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range any time. If a softer everyday card or a different premium finish would serve you better, the rest of the family is one tap away, and the whole set sits inside our wider business stationery collection. Each option below shows its own starting price and links straight to its product page.

Why Print With 4OVER4.COM

Ordering print online means trusting a shop you cannot walk into, and plenty of companies will take your order. Here is the record that earns yours. The numbers below are the ones we hold ourselves to on every job, including on-time shipping, since we started printing business cards online in 1999. Read them before you commit your run.

Print Your Raised Spot UV Business Cards Today

At 4OVER4.COM, raised spot UV business cards start at $108.75 for a set of 100, on a soft 16pt velvet stock, with clear raised gloss on the front or both sides. Whatever you put under the coating, the card lands in a hand and earns a second look. Build your raised spot UV business cards today and hand someone a card they keep.

One last thing before you check out. A card this nice rarely travels alone, so here are the products our customers most often order alongside their raised spot UV business cards, each priced and ready to drop into the same cart.