Business Card Weight and Thickness

Business card weight (lbs and grams) and points (the thickness, pt) are both used in the printing industry. To convert from pounds to points (from lbs to pt used in the chart) is not an exact conversion. A 100lb paper may be thicker than a 110lb paper of another material and a coating on the 100lb paper may make that again thicker than the 110lb paper. For the purposes of the business card printing comparison chart we don't display any prices for business cards that are less than 12pt as we feel anything less than a 12 pt thickness feels like a cheap business card and that's not an impression you want on you buisness. While most printers display the thickness (pt) of their business cards some only display the weight of the paper they print on. We convert these to the closest paper thickness we can guess. We convert 100lb to 12pt, 110lb to 13pt, 120lb to 14pt and 130lb to 15pt.