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Postcard Printing: Simple, Memorable Branding
Postcards are versatile and cost-effective marketing tools you can use to boost brand visibility and connect with your audience in a memorable way. Unlike digital ads that can be easily overlooked, their tangible nature allows them to deliver a more impactful message that people can hold, keep, and revisit.
Print Postcards That Speak to Your Audience
Choose a Suitable Printing Feature
You’re free to keep it simple with matte or gloss, go extra elegant in a silk or velvet surface, or highlight a message with spot UV. Find what suits your brand or what appeals to your customers.
Find the Best Mailable Size
Target a wider reach for your new product or store opening! Our standard postcards come in First Class mailing, Standard Letter, and First Class Letter sizes for mass distribution.
Include Mailing Services in Your Order
Be efficient when you buy postcards online. Add mailing services to your order so we’ll take care of processing your mailing list and delivering the set to USPS.
Try Our Easy and Convenient Mailing Services to Send Your Postcards
Directly to Customers
Upload your postcard design and have our Every Door Direct Mail service deliver postcards at low postage costs. Indicate a ZIP code and customers in that area will receive your message.
How to Design Your Personalized Postcards
Our Online Design Tool lets you create your postcards in minutes. Insert text, upload images, play with colors, and follow the print design guidelines to ensure proper alignment and trimming.
For most custom postcards, printing can be completed in as little as one business day after placing your order. Keep in mind that turnaround time refers only to production and does not include shipping or direct mail processing. Start designing your postcards online today!
Use Our Layout Templates for Print Accuracy
Whether you use Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Publisher, or any of your preferred image editing tools, using our free layout templates can help ensure proper alignment, accurate trimming, and print consistency.
Postcard Printing FAQs
We offer the following cardstocks for printing postcards:
- 10 pt. cardstock
- 14 pt. cardstock
- 16 pt. cardstock
- 17 pt. cardstock
Yes, we offer printing on both sides of the postcards. Select the 14 pt. cardstock uncoated as your paper type to write both sides.
Select the 14 pt. cardstock uncoated back for one writable side.
The 17 pt. cardstock is also available for a slightly thicker cardstock and writability on both sides.
The most popular standard postcard size is 4” x 6” because of its versatility (it is usually an excellent choice for general marketing, promotion, and direct mail). Other commonly used sizes are 6” x 9” and 6” x 11”.
Select your preferred turnaround time or the number of days to produce the order. It depends on the type of postcard you've selected. It varies from same-day to 7 business days.
After proceeding to checkout, you will select from several transit times as your shipping method choices. You pay less for 2 to 3 days transit but you can also select a one-day transit for a higher price.
Yes, you can upload your artwork for us to print. You can upload a file directly from your computer or from your Dropbox folder. PDF is the ideal file format for sending, but we also accept JPEG, JPG, TIF, TIFF, and EPS.
Yes, go to our free postcard layout templates. Select the file that you can open in your desired editing program:
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Microsoft Publisher
After uploading or designing your postcard artwork, you’ll be asked whether you need a PDF proof under Proofing Options.
- Select “I need a PDF proof” if you want to check your file before we proceed to production.
- The PDF proof file of your postcard will be available for download from the Shopping Cart after upload or from My Account after checkout.
- You need to approve the proof on My Account so it can proceed to printing.
Note that production time starts after you’ve approved the PDF proof.
If you select “I don’t need a proof”, we’ll do a standard file check and notify you if there are any technical problems with the file. If no problems are found, the artwork will go directly to print.

