Plastic Card Personalisation
Thermal Printing
Advanced Card Bureau Ltd uses thermal printing techniques for flat printing cards. This advanced printing method enables us to print virtually anything you can conceive of, onto the surface of a plastic card (front and back). Via this technique, we offer huge scope for Plastic Card Personalisation.
You can personalise your cards using variable data such as:
- Names
- Numbers (Account, Membership, Sequential, etc)
- Photographs
- Barcodes
- Magnetic Encode Data
Text can be applied using standard fonts in any size, keeping in mind that the larger the font, the less you can fit on your personalised plastic cards. (If you have a particular font in mind you may have to provide it for us).
Different
Colours
We can follow the Plastic Card Personalisation process in any colour using the CMYK process, or if specified, in a single block colour of:
- Black
- White
- Silver
- Gold
- Green
- Red
- Blue
Our thermal printing capabilities enable us to complete your job very quickly. (single colour print).
Advanced Card Bureau Ltd offers a card embossing service. We can emboss and / or encode variable data such as names, numbers, expiry dates on all types of personalised plastic cards.
The embossing is then tipped using coloured foil. The most common colours for plastic card embossing are black, white, silver and gold. There are two standard methods for card embossing:
- OCR – 5mm in height and is used for embossing numbers only, up to a maximum of 19 characters width.
- Simplex – 3mm in height and is used for both lettering and numbering to a maximum of 27 characters width.
These are for standard fonts used on credit cards.