Suede Postcards

What Are Suede Postcards

Suede postcards are postcards finished with a soft-touch suede laminate, printed full color in 19 sizes from a 2" x 3" card up to a 6" x 11", on a single 16pt suede-laminated stock. Customers order them when a glossy flyer would get ignored: luxury offers, event and wedding invitations, save-the-dates, real estate mailers, and premium thank-you cards. The surface feels velvety instead of slick, so people handle the card and keep it.

The suede laminate seals the full-color art under a matte, fingerprint-resistant layer, so a deep color or a clean logo looks rich rather than shiny. You print the front in full color with a blank back, or full color on both sides, and the price updates live as you go. If you want the same soft feel in a lighter format, the Soft Touch Postcards share the velvety hand at a lower starting price.

What Size Should a Suede Postcard Be

Choose the size by how much you need to say and how much the mailer should stand out. A 2" x 3" card is small enough to slip into an order as an enclosure or a loyalty card. Step up through sizes like 2" x 4", 2" x 6", and 2" x 8" for a standard mailer, or go all the way to a 6" x 11" card that fills a mailbox and gets noticed. All 19 preset sizes, both ink options and the custom sizing are grouped below exactly the way the live configurator presents them, so you know what you can change before you change it. For the same soft-touch feel with a velvet laminate instead, the Velvet Postcards are the close cousin.

Three choices shape how a suede postcard works in the mail.

Let the finish carry the design

On suede, a clean layout works better than a busy one. A single color block, a logo and a line of copy look rich on the matte, velvety coating, so keep the front simple.

Print both sides when you have a message

Choose 4/4 and you get full color on both sides, so the front carries the design while the back holds an offer, a map, a QR code, or a short note. The card then carries its own offer, with no second piece in the envelope.

Design it without a designer

On a 4" x 6" suede card, dark and muted colors look richest and thin type can soften into the matte surface, so keep the copy at a solid weight. Pick a layout from the postcard design templates in our library of 10,000+ designs, then change the colors, copy and logo in the online editor.

Already have your artwork? Skip the editor and download a press-ready blank instead. Each blank postcard template is built at the real trim size with the 1/8" bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your design never crowds the cut. Grab the size that matches your order below, drop your art in, and upload.

How Much Do Suede Postcards Cost

Suede postcards start at $87.15 for 250, and the per-postcard price keeps dropping as the quantity climbs toward 10,000, so the size of the run sets the price per card. The best step is the jump to 500, which costs the same $87.15 as 250 and halves the per-postcard price to about 17 cents. Drag the slider below to set your count and watch both the total and the true per-postcard cost update live, and find the point where one more step up barely moves the budget.

What Stock and Finish Are Suede Postcards Printed On

Every suede postcard prints on a single premium stock, a 16 point suede-laminated cover, so you do not have to weigh dozens of paper choices. The suede laminate is the finish itself: a soft-touch, velvety coating over full-color print. It feels soft and matte under a fingertip, resists fingerprints, and gives even a plain color block a quiet, expensive presence.

For ink you pick 4/0, full color on the front with a blank back, or 4/4, full color on both sides. Before it prints you can send the file straight to production or request a free online proof to check the layout first. Prefer a different premium laminate? The Silk Postcards swap the suede for a smooth silk coating on the same kind of heavyweight card.

How Do Suede Postcards Compare to the Rest of the Range

Choose suede postcards for a mailer people notice by touch. If you are also looking at a velvet laminate, a silk coating or a lighter soft-touch card, the chart below puts the starting price of each next to this one.

See How a Finished Suede Postcard Lands

The gallery below shows postcard work our customers printed with us in-house, in different sizes and designs. Look at how simple fronts read on the matte suede next to busier layouts. Tap any print to see it larger.

How Fast Can You Get Suede Postcards

Suede postcards print on a 4 business day standard turnaround, and when a date sneaks up you can move that to 3-day, 2-day, Next-Day or even Same-Day production. Each step buys back time for a set amount on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same-Day orders need to be approved by the daily cutoff to ship that day. 99.8% of 4OVER4 orders arrive on time and 82% ship early, so you are not gambling on the date.

See the Rest of Our Postcards

If a velvet laminate, a silk finish or a heavier specialty stock suits the mailing better, the cards below show each one with its starting price. For everything else we print, see the full print product range.

Print Your Suede Postcards Today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it's backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Pick the size, print the back if it carries an offer, and order 500 for the price of 250. Need them before a launch or an event? Same-Day production keeps you covered. Print your suede postcards today.