Ramp Up Profitability with Your Plastic Card Printer!

Is the cost of your card printer consumables and accessories eating away at your job budget and profitability?

It’s no lie. Consumables are expensive and yet oh-so necessary to provide you with the cards you need. Without ribbons your cards just can’t be printed!

We know that when global import prices skyrocket, consumable rates inflate—quickly munching your budget and profitability.

It’s time to make the change.

No longer do you have to be the victim of the global economic fluctuations. Join the CardsPlus revolution and escape the scramble. Our answer to rising consumable prices– is to lower ours.

Are you ready to side-step inflated prices and join the revolution?

Call in to receive a 25% discount on select brands of card printer ribbons and card accessories!

Don’t delay! This offer is only valid as stock lasts!

Contact us today on 086 16 CARDS (22737)

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Product Focus: Jolly Technology Lobby Track

Finally the visitor management void has been filled! Lobby Track is the ideal software solution for companies looking for secure tracking, visitor management and access control system rolled into a low cost framework!

Lobby Track allows organizations to track employees and equipment with detailed activity logs by individual or groups, provides access control in conjunction with entry systems and provides visitor management functionality, including data entry, badge design, and badge printing.

Unique to this system is the capability to directly interface with the customer’s existing database in real-time.

There are many different applications for Lobby Track including:

Visitor Management

Register new visitors, employees, students, attendees, members or other groups of people. Registration can be completed on-site, online via your company's intranet or at self-registration kiosks.

Issue Plastic Badges

Design and issue professional ID cards, badges and visitor passes using the integrated badge designer. Several pre-designed templates are included.

Track Entries & Exits

Track and control access to your facility by requiring visitors and members to scan their badges on entry and exit.

Scan badges with barcodes, magnetic stripes or prox chips.

Manage Locations and Databases

Centrally manage multiple databases and locations.

Download a trial version of Lobby Track on in our Downloads section today!

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Client FAQ: What makes a Printed Card “High Quality”?

Good Question! Using printed cards for branding in a loyalty, membership or access control programmes speaks volumes your company. Ensure that the card in your user’s hand will uphold the name you have carefully established.

These are a few features to look for in your offset cards to indicate their quality:

· Print Quality Are your colours crisp and sharp? Or do they bleed into each other? Colours shouldn’t bleed into other colours (unless your design requires it!)

· Lamination Does the top lamination bubble or peel straight out of the box? This is called de-lamination and occurs when the plastic isn’t given enough time or pressure for the molecules to bond sufficiently.

· Gloss Are the cards are reflective and glossy? A glossy card indicated the quality of plates used to bond your card.

Thanks for asking & Print on!

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Amp up your Card Security with these 6 Visual Tricks

Security on an ID or access control card is imperative for the safety of your organisation.

There are two types of security features– overt features are visible with the naked eye and covert features that require an additional assistant for viewing.

These 6 tips are overt security features and things that those validating entry or identification can recognise as valid or fraudulent.


1. Picture perfect—Does the ID photo show both the ears, nose and chin clearly? An ID photo that clearly shows all facial features is much more secure than one with sunglasses, a hat or even just a blurry overcast.

The ideal ID photo has a white background to prevent distraction from the subject.

2. Get spooky– A ghost image is a less opaque version of the users photo in a smaller size. Ghost image generation is very specific and a fraudulent image is easily detectable.

Keep in mind that a ghost image is not a watermark. In a watermark the brightness of an image is increased so that small detail is washed away. Instead, the ghost image has a dropped opacity which will ensure that the image retains most of the important detail.

3. Embrace the Guilloché– a guilloche pattern is a complex spirograph of curves that are difficult to replicate or scan.

Every guilloche looks different. This one on the right is made with blue and purple lines and a specific step curve.

4. Cast an overlay– A variety of overlays are available from tamper-resistant patches and overlays to security holograms each acting as another barrier against the outside world. Double-team a patch and a holographic overlay for extra assurance.

5. Make it micro (text)– Many passports and security documents have words carefully written in a tiny font along curves of designs. It’s seemingly invisible unless you know to look for it!

On this image can you see the words ‘Royal Importing Corporation’?



6. Printer serialised– Security card printers like the EDIsecure XID retransfer printers have a feature whereby the serial number of the printer and the time printed can be printed automatically on the card to prevent and detect fraudulent cards.

Call in today to see how we can help amp up your card security!

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True CardsPlus Innovation Makes World History

We are incredibly proud to be the very first to offer a secure National ID card on a digital offset press worldwide .

1.2 million cards were printed, barcoded and personalised in a mere 25 days! Production shifts were doubled and extra security measures were brought into place to ensure that the massive print run would go off without a hitch.

The HP s2000, our digital offset press, was the champion behind it all. She gave us the ability to instantly personalize each card with a variety of data fields and still print 21 cards at a time.

Our top-of-the-line finishing equipment gave each card a true gloss and a precision punched card edge.

Due to the offset process, we were able to print the cards at a fraction of the cost of a desktop solution.

• No cutting corners.

• No cheap substitutes.

• True innovation.

Putting the ‘Smart’ into Card Solutions… indeed.

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April was a busy month in the CardsPlus factory...

In just three and a half short weeks, CardsPlus made world history. We are proud to be the first to provide National ID cards on a digital offset press!


1.2 million National ID cards for an African country, were printed, barcoded and personalised within a mere 3 weeks for less than ever imagined!


With another client’s expectations surpassed, CardsPlus wants to give you a chance to experience great service for yourself.

If you mention this ad, you will receive 10% off your custom printed ID card project. Contact us today to hear more about this limited time offer!

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