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2009

May 08
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Card Printing Solutions to Consider for Your Organization

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Technology now offers you many printing ID systems and just as many card printing solutions. Whether you need to print photo ID or some other form of identification, there are many card printing solutions to consider.

There are several different types of printable plastic cards. Companies like Fargo, Datacard, Zebra, and Magicard all have a reputation for quality plastic cards. With more than 3 million identification cards printed every day, you can quickly see that this is really a new way of doing business.

Bank Cards

You can print on-demand bank cards right at your branch providing improved customer service. You can improve it even more by producing debit cards, credit cards, and ATM cards, then making them available for immediate use.

Driver’s Licenses

Government agencies around the world must print driver’s licenses, as they want a top notch product. This is why there are printers designed specifically for driver’s license printing.

Employee ID

Organizations require employee ID to help identify people, monitor production, and control access to areas. You want your employees as secure as your intellectual property. You can create personalized ID cards for your employees, the professional teams in your organization, for access control, and a host of other reasons.

Loyalty Cards

Loyalty cards have become very popular with businesses that want to reward their regular customers for their continued business. It’s a great way to set you apart from the competition. There are many different types of loyalty cards and you can decide what type you’d like to offer.

Membership Cards

Your members are your best asset and just as you want to set your business apart from the rest you should make sure your membership cards set you apart from the rest too. In-house card printing makes it easy for you to do just that. You can add security and value to your membership by printing cards that are personalized have the member’s name, and even a photo of your members. By printing barcodes you can keep the members personal information confidential. And if you want you can have expiration dates and balances in the printed barcode.

Government ID

There are all kinds of Government divisions with some that require some type of photo ID for most employees and others which require security identification cards for their security systems. Governments also provide all kinds of identification to citizens such as with healthcare cards or social security cards.

High Level Security ID

All high level security printed photo IDs are protected from counterfeiting, duplication, forgery, and alteration. And you can add the type of security that’s required from microchips for identification to systems that will open secure doors. There are many corporations that require high level security such as Homeland Security, research facilities, and hospitals.

Student Identification

The campus of today is far more secure than the past. Today’s student ID card can do a whole lot more than just identify a student. It can be encoded with all kinds of student information including medical conditions, library cards, and even class registrations.

Smart Cards

This type of card can be used by many different companies and organizations and it offers a great deal of functionality and security. Smart cards provide security, convenience, and portability. For example, ATM cards are an excellent example of a smart card.

With so many different card printing solutions there’s something to meet the needs of all companies and organizations. While deciding on the right solution for your organization you should consider the following.

Security – What type of security do you need? Different types of organizations and events require different security levels. Each business has their own unique needs so you will need to determine what it is you require in this area.

Integration – You will need to determine how you will need to integrate your new card printing system into other areas of your company or organization. You can always get the experts in the field of integration to give your organization a hand in providing a seamless system.

Functionality – There are several different card printers on the market and you will need to evaluate for the functionality you require. The professionals that offer these products to the market are experts in their product line so be sure to utilize this expertise.

Card Issuance – Issuing cards in-house is great but the security of these cards is only as good as the card printing system you implement which is why it’s important for you to know and understand the various levels of security associated with the equipment.

There are many different card printing solutions available. That means your organization should consider what it is they want to do, and how they would like to do it. Only then they can make the right choice.

May 08
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6 Questions to Ask When Purchasing an Id Card Printer

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Everyday business owners decide that the time is right to implement their own internal ID card printing system; and each time the same question arises – what is the right ID card printer? Here are 6 Questions you should have the answers to before purchasing an ID card printer.

1. Do you need to print on both sides of your photo ID card?

If you answered yes, you will need to purchase a dual-sided printer. This will allow you to add information on both the front and the back of the card. There are all kinds of excellent dual ID card printers on the market. The disadvantage to this type of printer is it costs more and this type of printing takes more time.

2. Do you need to print monochrome or color cards?

Monochrome printing uses only black ink, so it is much cheaper. It’s also a lot faster, taking only around 5 seconds per card. Color printing lets you create eye catching color cards, and it also allows for very realistic photos on you photo ID cards. The disadvantage is that color printing costs more.

3. Do you need your cards to be smart?

Today’s market provides you with all kinds of different photo ID cards to choose from, including smart ones. The smart card is able to store all kinds of information on the magnetic strip or bar code. The information is encoded on smart chips, making them popular in situations where security is an issue. For example, smart cards are a good choice if you need your employees to sign in or sign out of secure facilities.

4. Do your cards need to be secure?

There is a great deal of effort that goes into making a card as secure as possible. A members card for a local retail store might not have to be very secure, but a restricted area in a laboratory will likely require a great deal of security. You’ll need to take inventory of what it is you need your cards to do, and then you’ll know what features to look for in a printer. All the top manufacturers offer mag stripe encoders, and smart card encoders. If you need to laminate your card you need a photo ID printer with a special station.  So consider this when you are looking

5. How many cards do you need to print every year?

The average printer can print around 30,000 cards per year, which is adequate for most. If you need to print more cards you will need to choose a printer that is designed for higher volume.

6. What is the life expectancy you want from your photo ID cards?

Abrasive activities from swiping the card in high usage situations, can wear them out quickly. Average usage will see a PVC card last 1 to 2 years, while high use could easily cut the life expectancy of these cards in half.

You can extend the life of your cards using overlays or lamination. An overlay is an additional panel on the printer ribbon, which gets laid down on the top of the card. This extends card life by a year. Lamination applies a vinyl coating on both sides of the card. It is applied using heat and pressure. There are different thicknesses of lamination to choose from. In general, laminating adds 4 to 5 years to the life of your card. These options might increase your initial costs, but overall are more likely to reduce your costs in situations of high use.

Once you know the answer to these 6 questions, you will have a much better understanding of the type of ID card printer you need. There are many excellent printers on the market, making choosing right printer that much easier. Successful businesses recognize opportunities that will reduce costs and increase profits. Printing your own photo ID cards will do just that.

May 06
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Features of Plastic Card Printers

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Plastic card printers have the capacity to create personalized cards based on your requirements. Using a computer and an image capture system, like a digital camera, plastic card printers give a well integrated system. At just a few seconds per card, the printing method is fast, so that cards are created and custom-made instantly. Digitally printed plastic cards begin with a clear and plain card that can be printed with any mixture of design, text, graphics, digital photograph, logos, bar codes and others. These designs and features are limited only by the issuers’ creativeness. Other machine-legible information, such as smart card chips and magnetic stripes can also be programmed.

Magnetic stripes can complement your plastic card order where the upper 1/3 of one part of the card is clear to contain the stripe. Magnetic Stripes have beneficial qualities that you can consider to be included on your card order. These help the new card works with previous card readers and software programs. Magnetic stripes save a small amount of information such as customer information, report numbers, user id, member numbers or also access codes for locks and other operational systems. They are compatible with other complicated software programs such as those used in Gift Card programs or Loyalty Card programs as well. The magnetic striped card is also suited with the promoter’s software so that it can provide the holder with special offers, credit towards marketing incentives and purchases, and is also used in building database that assist you in buying habits of customers. This information is useful since retailers can better serve their customers depending on stocks products that pull the interest of their customers. Also, it has many more advantages that offer a wealth of valuable marketing applications.

Another feature of plastic card that you can utilize is the signature panel on the digitally scanned signature on the face of the card or reverse of the card. Most cards are too glossy to draw on a ball point pen for signing. A signature panel provides a perfect surface to tolerate a handwritten signature. Also, a scanned signature can be added and can be personalized, however there are many card options available that can be printed on your card using digital signature.

It is simple and easy to add to your order, just ask your plastic card printing service provider about adding the Signature Panel feature. They will handle the rest. Just call them anytime if you have any queries and they can begin the process producing your high quality plastic cards. Bar-coding is a trendy choice at many plastic cards printing service provider. Most of the new retail cash register systems translate barcodes at the checkout stand, creating a perfect and fast way to collect data about customers and the products they are buying. It is also a great way to handle memberships in services and procedures that have many cards to surge in and out. Each card has the ability to carry a unique barcode on either front or reverse side. The advantages are almost endless: the card can then be linked to a database of select information customized toward your individual requirements. Indeed, digital plastic card printing symbolizes the next generation of card production. With the use of the stated digital printing technology, it adds the card delivery process into the electronic environment that helps you manage your business or agency.

May 04
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What is a smart card?

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A smart card resembles a credit card in size and shape, but inside it is completely different. First of all, it has an inside — a normal credit card is a simple piece of plastic. The inside of a smart card usually contains an embedded microprocessor. The microprocessor is under a gold contact pad on one side of the card. Think of the microprocessor as replacing the usual magnetic stripe on a credit card or debit card.

Smart cards are much more popular in Europe than in the United States. In Europe, the health insurance and banking industries use smart cards extensively. Every German citizen has a smart card for health insurance. Even though smart cards have been around in their modern form for at least a decade, they are just starting to take off in the United States.

Magnetic stripe technology remains in wide use in the United States. However, the data on the stripe can easily be read, written, deleted or changed with off-the-shelf equipment. Therefore, the stripe is really not the best place to store sensitive information. To protect the consumer, businesses in the U.S. have invested in extensive online mainframe-based computer networks for verification and processing. In Europe, such an infrastructure did not develop — instead, the card carries the intelligence.

The microprocessor on the smart card is there for security. The host computer and card reader actually “talk” to the microprocessor. The microprocessor enforces access to the data on the card. If the host computer read and wrote the smart card’s random access memory (RAM), it would be no different than a diskette.

Smarts cards may have up to 8 kilobytes of RAM, 346 kilobytes of ROM, 256 kilobytes of programmable ROM, and a 16-bit microprocessor. The smart card uses a serial interface and receives its power from external sources like a card reader. The processor uses a limited instruction set for applications such as cryptography.

The most common smart card applications are:

* Credit cards

* Electronic cash

* Computer security systems

* Wireless communication

* Loyalty systems (like frequent flyer points)

* Banking

* Satellite TV

* Government identification

Smart cards can be used with a smart-card reader attachment to a personal computer to authenticate a user. Web browsers also can use smart card technology to supplement Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for improved security of Internet transactions.

May 04
0

Plastic card fraud goes back up

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There was a 25% rise in the fraudulent use of UK credit and debit cards last year, with losses amounting to £535m, according to the banking industry.
The Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) said the first rise in three years was mainly due to stolen and counterfeit cards used abroad.

Card fraud overseas rose by 77% last year to £208m, 39% of the total.

But losses also rose as cards were used dishonestly to buy more items over the phone, internet or by mail order.

It means that fraud where the credit or debit card was &quotnot present” now amounts to more than half of all card losses, here and abroad, at £291m.

Chipandpin

Taken together, all types of card fraud committed within the UK went up slightly, by 6% to £328m.

But that was still noticeably lower than a few years ago before the introduction of chipandpin technology.

The absence of this technology in some foreign countries has made the use of skimmed or cloned cards abroad relatively more attractive to criminals, said Apacs.

&quotAlthough card fraud levels have now begun to go up again due to fraud abroad and cardnotpresent fraud losses, chipandpin has proven to be an undoubted success in reducing card fraud on the UK high street,” said Sandra Quinn of Apacs.

&quotAnd, as more countries follow our lead and upgrade to chipandpin, the opportunities for criminals to use our stolen magnetic stripe details overseas will decrease,” she added.

Fraud abroad

Banks throughout Europe have agreed to bring in chipandpin cards by 2010.

They hope to emulate the success of the industry in the UK where fraud on lost or stolen cards, including those stolen in the post, has fallen to its lowest level for ten years.

Handinhand with this has gone a big drop in losses from fraudulent transactions in shops, stores and supermarkets which, although up very slightly last year, are still running at a third of the level seen in 2004.

Losses at cash machines are also down, falling by 44% in the past year to £35m.

May 04
0

Plastic Card Types

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Access Control Card

– is a plastic card used to gain/control access to premises or enter restricted areas. Usually associated with magnetic or chip cards and proximity cards with or without photo e.g. ID badges.

Affinity card

– is a form of loyalty card where the co-branding partner is a charity or organisation that benefits financially from card use.

Barcode Card

– is a card with printed codes made from vertical lines of different thickness used for fast error free data entry printed somewhere on the face or reverse. There is an array of machine-readable rectangular bars and spaces arranged in a specific way defined in international standards to represent letters, numbers, and other human-readable symbols. Cards are either the usually 30 micron credit card type cards or alternatively can be ‘pop out’ cards.

Blank Cards

– are cards with no printing usually used in imaging machines.
CR80 Card

– is the description for a standard credit card size (3 3/8″ x 2 1/8″ x .030).

Charge Card

– is a payment card that provides automatic credit within a given invoice date (usually monthly).

Cheque guarantee card

– is a card issued by a bank or building society for the purpose of guaranteeing settlement of cheques to third parties or supporting the encashment of cheques at financial institutions up to a specified value. Most debit and some credit cards may also function as cheque guarantee cards (multifunction cards).

Chip Card

– is another name for a smart card; refers to a plastic card with an embedded integrated circuit, which offers memory and micro processing capabilities.

City card

– is a multi-application prepayment card for use within a specific urban area – also known as town card.

Combi Card

– is a smart card with both “contact” and “contactless” technology on one card.

Company Card

– is a card issued to or by a company for use by an employee for business-related transactions (e.g., purchases, logical access, physical access).

Contactless Smart Card

– is a smart card that transmits and receives data using radio frequencies (RF) technology to communicate with compatible terminal. Eliminates physical contact or insertion into reader terminal while retaining intelligence. Often used in walk-by or gate access applications for mass transit.

Contact Smart Card

– is a smart card that requires physical contact with a card reading device to exchange data. Any card where information is transferred to a reader via a series of contact points located on the card.

Credit Card

– is a term used for a card allowing its owner to spend money with no immediate reimbursement.
Debit Card

– is a card similar to a credit card, but differs by immediately withdrawing money from an account and transferring it to another account. It replaces cheques (with no delay to give the issuer time to cover it) and does not have a credit line associated.

Digital Optical Laser Card

– is a portable card that passively stores information in the form of high-density marks or bars.

Electronic Purse (e-purse)

– is a smart card that contains electronic money. It is sometimes called the electronic wallet or the stored value card (SVC).

e-wallet

– is a small portable device that contains electronic money. E-wallets are generally used for low-cost transactions.

Financial Hologram Card

– is a card using a hologram, 30 mil thickness, ISO cards, e.g. MasterCard / Visa and others.

Financial Cards (Other)

– are typically Debit, Cheque, Charge or ATM cards not using a hologram.

Fuel card

– is a special purpose charge card used most by transport drivers to pay for fuel on the road.

Generic Card

is a card that utilises a base card stock of a pre-designed, centralised image and is not individualised to a specific issuer (or department) within its basic design. It may have an IIN (Issuer Identification Number) that groups the issuer with other organisations (for benefits of scales of volumes) but the users’ card can be subsequently individualised by personalisation techniques.

Gift Card

– is a standard or custom size CR80 card with a stored or prepaid value placed on the card through magnetic striping or bar coding. Usually a retail card initiated at cash desks or checkouts.

Health Card

– is a card used to store information about medical history or insurance coverage. Commonly used in the USA these cards can be of any technology.

Hologram card

– is an identification card bearing a hologram as a security measure against counterfeiting.

Hybrid Cards

– are cards that support more than one technology, such as an IC (integrated circuit) card with a magnetic stripe.

IC Card

– is an abbreviation for Integrated Circuit or “chip card”. The banking industry prefers the term “IC card” or “ICC”.

ID Card

– is an abbreviation for identity card: a card that identifies both the bearer and the issuer. All financial transaction cards are I.D. cards.

Java Card

– is a smart card that supports applications written in JAVA.

Key Card

– is a plastic card used to gain access to premises, usually associated with magnetic stripe and proximity cards.

Laser Engraved Cards

– see Polycarbonate cards.

Loyalty Card

– is typically a standard CR80 size card that has off line accounting capabilities e.g. mileage recording or merchandise purchases and often used as a retail frequent user card offering promotional benefits.

Magnetic Stripe Card

– is a card that has a strip of magnetic tape material attached to its surface. This is the standard technology used for bankcards (ATM, credit, and debit cards) and for other applications.

Membership Card

– is usually a club member card for ID purpose.

Memory Card

– is a type of smart card. Also known as a synchronous card, it features 256 bits or 32-byte memory and is suitable for use as a token or identification card. It is controlled only by fixed logic rather than by a microprocessor.

Microprocessor Card

– is a type of smart card, also known as an asynchronous card. Features 1 kilobyte to 64 Kbytes of memory and is suitable for portable or confidential files, identification, tokens, electronic purse or any combination of uses.

Mifare Card

– is a proprietary contactless smart card standard, equivalent to ISO 14443 Type A.

Multi-application Smart Card

– is a microprocessor smart card that can handle a variety of applications – typically with lots of memory and computing power – whilst maintaining separate security conditions.

Non-magnetic Card

– is a card without a magnetic stripe e.g. ID cards.

Optical Card

– is a card with information recorded on an optical memory stripe, similar to compact disks.

Other Secure Card

– are usually retail, oil/gas, telecom, transport, and pay TV cards.

PCMCIA Card

– is an abbreviation for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association: it is not considered to be a smart card, as, whilst this card type contains semiconductor chips, it is (a) physically thicker than a smart card, and (b) the connection means is through an edge connector, not via the standard surface-contact method.

PETG

– formal name is polyethylene terephthalate-glycol-modified is extremely clear. PETG does not contain a UV inhibitor. (Polycarbonate)

Photo ID card

– is an identification card bearing a photographic image of the cardholder. The image can be an actual photograph or one captured wholly electronically.

PVC

– Polyvinyl Chloride. The primary material used for typical plastic cards.

Payment Card

– is a card that is used as an identifier when used to transact full or part payment a bill. It enables the payees’ details to be swiftly recorded automatically and credit lodged against the account.

Pay TV Card

– is usually a chip card subscribing to a television service e.g. satellite TV.

Phone Card

– is a stored value card that allows the user to access telephone networks via a PIN number which is usually covered by a scratch-off panel for security.

Plastic card

– is a generic description of all payment cards including credit, debit and cheque guarantee.

Polycarbonate Cards

– are cards produced from a particular group of thermoplastics. These have the properties of high-durability, light weight and flexibility because they are polymers linked together by carbonate groups. Polycarbonate cards are stronger than Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) cards and thus more expensive. However, for applications where longevity and higher security is pre- requisite e.g. National ID, Passport and Driver’s Licence cards, Polycarbonate cards are ideal. These cards are utilised where the virtually tamper-proof personalisation technique of laser engraving is required.

Prepaid Card

– is a card paid for at Point of Sale and permits the holder to buy goods or services up to the prepaid value. Not all such cards show the identity of the bearer (e.g. phone cards).

Promotional Card

– is typically a card offering special benefits to users e.g. discounts or rewards.

Protected Memory Card

– is a smart card that requires a secret code or PIN number to be entered before the data can be sent/received from the chip.

Proximity Card

– is typically a contact less card whose presence and data can be sensed by an interface device not in physical contact with the card and used for access control applications. Embedded in the card is a metallic antenna coil, which allows it to communicate with an RF external antenna.
Radio Frequency Card (RFlD)

– A proximity card in which the coupling between the card and the interface device is by radio.

Retailer (Store) Card

– is a proprietary card used and issued by a retailer or retailing group.

Scratch Card

– is a card that is produced with special ink that can be scratched away to reveal a number or message.

Secure Card

– are cards with an intrinsic value e.g. financial, other secure cards etc.

SIM card

– is an abbreviation for Subscriber Identification Module: a smart card that connects to a GSM phone and establishes the users identity.

Single-application Smart Card

– is a smart card issued to a single organisation for a singular purpose.

Smart Card/Contact Smart Card

– also called a “chip” card or IC card. A smart card is a plastic card with an embedded microchip that may be used to store information about the cardholder or record card transactions as they occur. Plastic credit sized card that contains one or more semiconductor chips. This is a credit card or SIM card sized plastic card with an embedded microcircuit that contains either a: Memory Card, Protected Memory Card or Microprocessor Card.

Store card

– is a financial transaction card associated with a retailer or group of retail stores that can be used only for purchases from the retailers concerned.

Stored Value Card

Stored Value Card – is a financial card e.g. cash card, electronic purse, prepaid card that is loaded with a certain amount of money/value e.g. loyalty points or credit for canteen meals with each ‘purchase’ amount deducted from the card.

Telephone Card

– is a card that can be utilised for the payment of telephone calls. This type of card maybe a prepaid card, a credit card, or one that adds the cost of the call to a standard bill.

Town Card

– see City card

Apr 27
0

Save money , live better!

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Having your plastic identification cards made by a printing company can be very expensive. If you represent a company who is not concerned about saving money than please ignore this information. However, if you are representing a business and your success or failure depends on every dollar you can save, than hop aboard and hang on. Even if you are a student that only needs to make a few cards at a time for school, this is news you will want to hear. The bottom line is that by printing your own plastic cards you will save money.

Most of your commercial printing companies require bulk orders, sometimes up into the thousands. By printing your own cards, you have the option of printing only the amount of cards that you need. Once you learn how to make your own plastic cards, it will be easier, faster and without a doubt, less expensive. In addition, by making your own cards you avoid any penalties or fees for small orders. You will have the control over your own designs. You can change them anytime you wish with out any hassle. You will also eliminate the waiting period, which can be weeks with some companies.

You are immediately empowered with on the spot quality control when you are making your own cards. If a company makes a mistake, most of the time they will take care of the cost, but you still have to wait even longer to get your product. All of this stress can be avoided. You do not have to be tied down to other companies polices. You can control your own printing process. By making your own cards you will save an amazing amount of money on a per card basis. In addition to all of this you will not be paying shipping costs anymore.

Any business must be cost effective. Everyone wants to save money. It does not matter if you are a student or a small business owner. Make your own cards and you will get better through trial and error. In the end you will reap the rewards. It is not as hard as you might think to make your own plastic cards. You can purchase a card printer and connect it to your computer just like a paper printer. Of course you will need a card ribbon instead of a paper ribbon to ensure absolute quality. Badge software and the correct attachments to wear or carry the badge are other items you may need to have a successful badge printing setup.

If you have an eye for detail and actually feel more comfortable when you have your fingers on the controls, then making your own plastic cards is the way to go. You will get that control and save a bundle of money as well.

Apr 27
0

Giving Your Business Card The Right Feel

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Many people approach the design of a business card as a simple task, related only with visual arrangement of the elements of the card. This is wrong, however, as there is much more to the design of a successful business card – it has to hold a few key elements, and also combine them in an appropriate way, in order to create the complete card as something outstanding and different from the competition. Die cut business cards can be seen as tiny masterpieces of design, incorporating many elements of creativity.

One important aspect of your card, which isn’t directly related to its look, is it’s physical feeling. If your card not only looks good, but brings a pleasant sensation to whoever’s holding it, it will create a much more positive impression. This can be easily achieved by using appropriate materials, and sometimes inks (depending on what you’re planning to put on your card). Generally, you can put pretty much every popular material to a good use, as long as it’s properly worked into the design of your card. Making your rounded corner business card out of transparent plastic, or wood, can enhance that feeling and deliver a nice finishing touch to the card.

Of course, we can’t forget the visuals, no matter how much we wish to concentrate on other aspects. You need to give your cards a proper look that mixes well with your choice of material. Calmer colours, as well as pure black, can fit well on a wooden card. For the transparent plastic design, try something different and wackier – bright colours in the red and yellow tones, combining and swirling around to create interesting patterns. Though you have to be careful with overdoing it – you don’t want your card to look like a smudgy mess, do you?

Apr 27
0

What is Royal Card?

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Royal Card is small, plastic, but extremely cute and stylish.It was able to unite and get together the best representatives of Russian restaurant business of New York: restaurants Riviera, XO and night club Rasputin. It has also brought closer our friends across the ocean, big chain of Ukrainian restaurants from Kozyrnaya Karta network: Hutorok, DeJavu, DaVinci Fish Club, Mandarin; clubs Freedom, Moda-Bar and many more. The ROYAL CARD has already become one of the favorite among many frequent restaurant visitors of a big New York. Our little “baby-card” attracted attention by its bright and original design, as well its unique capability to recognize the owner (the magnet strip on a back on the card identify the owner). It is also known for melting the heart of any gourmet lover after enjoying the elaborate cuisine and high quality service of ROYAL CARD restaurants. When it is time to pay, your favorite ROYAL CARD will provide you with significant discount and make you feel as a real Royalty!!!

Apr 24
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Top 10 websites for vector format graphic design resources

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NO.:01 http://www.vecteezy.com

Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best artists around the world.

NO.:02 http://www.vector4free.com/

vector4free is a web site dedicated to free vector graphics: Adobe Illustrator AI, EPS, PDF, SVG, Corel Draw CDR files free to download – that’s what you can find here. To facilitate your work all items are classified by tags. We hope that you find vector4free.com handy and friendly. Enjoy!

NO.:03 http://www.qvectors.com/

QVectors.com is a Showcase site for free quality vector images from around the net. its also a sister site of Qbrushes.com which showcases quality photoshop brushes .

NO.:04 http://www.free-clip-art.com/

You can download high quality Vector and Web-Ready clipart for FREE. Ready-made pieces of printable art, such as illustrations, borders, and cartoons, that can be electronically copied and used to decorate your documents or projects. Use the .WMF format for printing and use the .GIF image for Web sites, newsletters and other Web use.

NO.:05 http://www.plasticcardonline.com

This web site provide high res vector artwork for all kinds of plastic card like plastic business cards, gift cards, loyalty cards, membership cards, key access cards, ID badges. If you add “/blog” after the main url, you will find a blog full of different types of  vector artwork.

NO.:06  http://www.freevectordownload.com/

FreeVectorDownload is a free vector graphics and design Art showcase center. allow Individual or companies to display their works to the world, If you want showcase your icons work or you are a Graphics / Web developers, are looking for high-quality Royalty Free Vector Graphics , Here is the best place!

NO.:07  http://www.zcool.com.cn/

This is a famous free vector resource download website in China. The quality and quantity they provided is really worth a visit.

NO.:08  http://www.freevectors.net/

FreeVectors is an online gallery of free to use vector graphics. All the images on this site are free to use for personal use and most of them can be used commercialy. If you choose to use a vector please leave a comment so we know what types of vectors you like.

NO.:09  http://www.ndesign-studio.com/

This name no need more explaination, they provide vector artwork too.

NO.:10 http://www.vectorvault.com/

vectorjunky.com is an online gallery of free vector graphics. All the images on this site are free for personal use and a lot of them for commercial use, if you use any of the free vector art it would be nice if you could provide a link back to the authors web site.