Pre-Printing of Cards an Introduction

At Cards Plus, we believe there are two key ingredients to a successful Pre-Printed card project:

• Project Management
• Card Printing Technology

Project Management
Cards Plus has many years of experience project managing large and small projects. We treat every Pre-Printed card job as a project. We assign a project manager that will be involved in every step of the process with you. We will work diligently from the art preparation to making sure all your specifications are correctly met. We will make sure that you get you proof quickly (in digital format) to ensure that the project does not sit unnoticed. We will work diligently to service you and our goal will be to exceed your expectations in every step of the project.

Card Printing Technology

We offer a couple of ways to produce pre-printed cards. For the lower volume of cards, we suggest dye-sublimation. This type of technology is suitable for ID Cards and card orders of 500 cards or less. We can print full colour on the front and full colour on the back. We also offer a cheaper option that allows for monochrome print (black, blue, green, red, white, gold and silver) on a standard white credit card size card.

Our standard lead-time for these types of cards are 3-4 days.

We also offer an option for larger volume of cards which also offers better print quality. This option offers a lower cost. We can print full colour on the front and back, we also offer guilloche printing, foil stamping, UV Ink printing just to name a few. Our standard lead-time for these types of cards are 3-4 weeks.

There are many advantages of a Cards Plus Pre-Printed card, including:

• Durability
  1.0 mil overlay to provide an extremely durable card
• Resolution
  This high printing resolution will make your images dramatically sharper and if you require security printing i.e guilloche or micro printing we can accommodate those needs
• Speed
  A Pre-Printed card allows you to just print the data that is varying on the card, since the background image is already printed. This can sharply increase your productivity of your card printing process.

Card Plus’ technology for producing your card will be state of the art including the following:

• The process includes a fully digital pre-press, which allows for the litho plates to be 100% digitally created (many plants still use film). The digital litho plates will ensure highest quality images. What that means at the end of the day, there are NO SETUP COSTS.
• The Litho offset printing equipment is also fully digital and uses the most advanced technology available for plastic card printing. The colour, density and litho plates are computer controlled, which will ensure an exact reproduction of your cards.
• The cards are cut using an optical registration system that checks for accuracy on three axes to guarantee accurate cuts.
• The cards are inspected using a fully computer controlled optical inspection system that accurately assures the highest card quality.
• The plant has achieved the highest quality designation - ISO 9001.
• The plant produces cards for American Express, Visa and MasterCard with a huge capacity of cards per year.

We can accomodate almost any size and type of pre-printed card. We work with worldwide industry leaders from financial institutions, casinos, loyalty card managers, retailers, restaurants, hotels, airlines, schools, governments, libraries, and more.

It doesn’t matter if you currently have a paper based, laminated plastic or even no membership cards at all, we are sure that Cards Plus can assist you in shaping your card requirements.

You demand the quality, innovation and creativity to make your card stand out above the rest. It is a relationship, touch point, or communication piece to your customer.

Cards Plus is the company to meet your needs. Our streamlined process gives customers competitively priced products without sacrificing the quality and technology needed to succeed in business today.

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