Plastic Card Printing Options
What sets your plastic card printing program apart are the options available from Plasticcardonline.com. We offer a full range of personalization options that will allow you to take your plastic card program to the next level. Plasticcardonline.com offers embossing, bar coding, magnetic stripe encoding, thermal printing and foil stamping.
Plastic Card Embossing
One of the most popular options we have available to our customers is Plastic Card Embossing. This feature is the same that you will find on your credit card. It is a very popular feature with VIP and Membership cards. It has also become a new trend with Plastic Business Card Printing and Gift Cards.
We can emboss type in several sizes as well as embossing unique information on each cards. Coupled with our fulfillment programs our customers can save money by ordering a large quantity of cards and having us emboss individual member information on each cards as their club or organizations numbers rise.
Plastic Card Foil Stamping
Another popular plastic card option is Foil Stamping. This process uses a die and heat to inset the foil material. Foil is reflective and adds a great accent to a plastic card.
While foil stamping is a great accent for your cards there are some limitations that must be worked around. Please contact our sales staff to get in touch with a designer who will make sure that your artwork is correctly set up, or have our team of award winning designers create a custom plastic card to your exact specifications.
Colored & Clear Stock
If you are looking to make a definate impression give our clear or frosted line a try. The translucent quality of these cards makes them unforgettable. We also offer Silver and Gold Cardstocks that have a metallic quality (Like metallic paint on a car) In addition to these specialty cardstocks we have a full line of colored stock that can help keep costs down by reducing the colors of ink required to create a design.
Thermal Customization
Need different information on every one of your Plastic Cards?? No problem! In the printing industry this is known as as Thermal Printing. Common uses are ID Badges, Member Information, Bardcode Printing, and Thermal Numbering.
FOB Plastic Breakaway Key Tag
A popular new solution in the VIP and Membership Card industry is to have a card attached to a keytag that can be fastened to a members keychain. FOB Keytags can be thermal printed to have matching information. Keytags are also available in a three up version. A great way to save money on a budget. A 500 card order yields 1500 Keytags this way.
Plastic Card Signature Panel
Signature Panels allow you to write with a normal pen on a Printed Plastic Card. A standard option for many of our clients. Plastic Card Signature Panels work great to activate a plastic gift, membership, vip, or discount card and add a nice touch to your card.
UV Printing
UV printing is used to print on plastic, foil, and specialty substrates. UV light is used to dry specially formulated inks that are printed on non-porous materials. In conventional printing, ink dries as it is absorbed into paper. Because plastic is not absorbent, the ink must be dried on the top surface using UV light.
Qantity/Unit Price |
500-1000 |
2000-3000 |
5000-10000 |
10000+ |
Style/option |
Bar Code |
+0.02 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
+0.01 |
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Lo-co
Magnetic Strip |
+0.04 |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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Hi-co
Magnetic Strip |
+0.08 |
+0.08 |
+0.06 |
+0.02 |
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Scratch off panel |
+0.02 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
+0.01 |
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Hole punch |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
+0.01 |
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Strip punch |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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Signature panel |
+0.02 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
+0.01 |
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Matte laminated |
+0.08 |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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Print film overlay |
+0.08 |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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+0.02 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
+0.01 |
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Thermal printed numbers |
+0.08 |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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Gold/Silver embossing |
+0.02 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
+0.01 |
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Laser foil |
+0.08 |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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Gold/Silver foil |
+0.08 |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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Invisible UV printing
Shining under UV light |
+1.5 |
+1.3 |
+1.2 |
+1.0 |
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Die cut card |
+0.3 |
+0.2 |
+0.1 |
+0.1 |
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Clear stock |
+0.3 |
+0.2 |
+0.1 |
+0.1 |
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Metallic Gold/Silver Background
|
+0.06 |
+0.04 |
+0.02 |
+0.02 |
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Frosted
Matte Finish |
+0.05 |
+0.04 |
+0.03 |
+0.02 |
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Matte Finish |
+0.05 |
+0.03 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
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Plastic bag |
+0.02 |
+0.02 |
+0.01 |
+0.01 |
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Plastic Card Printing Terminology
Plastic Access Card
Magnetic or chip cards with or without photo used to enter restricted areas eg. ID badges.
Blank Plastic Cards
Cards with no printing usually used in imagining machines
Coercivity
A measure of the strength of a magnetic field. Fields are expressed as low or high by the terms LoCo and HiCo.
Contact
A point of electrical connection between a smart card and its external interface device.
Contact Card
Any card where information is transferred to a reader via a series of contact points located on the card.
Degaussing
Magnetic stripe data erasure.
Digitizing
Conversion of non-textual data to digital form.
Embossing
Characters in relief on the front surface of a card.
Encoding
Recording electronic information on to a magnetic stripe.
Encryption
Transferring information based on a key to make it un-intelligible to unauthorized parties.
Electronic Gift Card
A retail prepaid card usually initiated at cash or checkout.
Initialization
Programming a smart card chip with data that is the same for a batch of cards.
ID Card
Card which identifies both the bearer and the issuer. All financial transaction cards are ID cards.
ISO
International Standards Organization, central body for formation and dissemination of industry standards for all national standards bodies.
Issuer
An individual or organization that issues identification cards to individual or corporate cardholders.
Lithography or Offset Printing
Most common process for plastic card printing based on the concept that oil and water are not compatible. The ink represents the oil and the alkaline fountain solution represents the water. These are the two main components which must interact during the printing process, allowing the ink to adhere to the image area of a printing plate while the fountain solution repels the ink from the non-image area.
Lamination
Using plates on a press to fuse the various layers of a plastic card together.
Loyalty Card
Usually a retail frequent user card offering promotional benefits.
Magnetic Stripe
The strip of magnetic recording material on an ID card.
Plastic Membership Card
Usually a club member card for ID purpose.
Non-magnetic Card
Cards without a magnetic stripe eg. ID cards.
Off-line
A transaction via paper or reader not connected to a central system.
On-line
A transaction on a terminal permanently connected to a network that is on-line to the card account.
Personalization
Printing, encoding and programming a card with data specific to an individual cardholder.
Prepaid Card
A card paid for at point of sale permitting the holder to buy goods and services up to the prepaid value.
Promotional Card
A card offering special benefits to users eg, discount card.
PVC
Polyvinyl chloride, the most widely used plastic material for ID cards.
Radio Frequency Card (RFID)
A proximity card in which the coupling between the card and the interface device is by radio.
Signature Panel
The area of an ID card where the cardholder enters a signature.
Skimming
Copying the magnetic stripe encoding from one card to another.
Stored Value Card (aka cash card, electronic purse, prepaid card)
A financial card that is loaded with a certain amount of money with each purchase amount deducted from the card.
Substrate
Material upon which a plastic card is printed.
Transit Card
Magnetic or chip card used for transportation services eg. subway card.
Telecom Card
Magnetic or chip card used for telephone services eg. GSM card, prepaid card.
Traditional Card
A magnetic or non magnetic card not using chip card technology.
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