How to Choose the Right Plastic Card for Your Business
First-time buyers of plastic cards often have a lot of questions, and that’s totally understandable. There are many, many options to consider with plastic card printing. How should the cards be designed? What’s the best way to track user data? Are security features really necessary? Those are the kinds of things my new clients want […]
ID Card Printing Tips for Custom Blank Cards
Even though Plastek Cards offers full-service plastic card printing, we frequently get calls from people who want to buy blank cards for use with table-top machines, often because they want to print ID cards. If this is something you’re considering, here are few pointers for making the entire process easy. Choose Your ID Card Printer […]
Special Considerations with Die Cut Plastic Cards
In my last post, I focused on all the possibilities with die-cut business cards. The sky is pretty much the limit when it comes to color and design – unless you need to add certain types of plastic card printing options. If you’re thinking about going the die-cut route with your next batch of plastic cards, […]
What You Need to Know About Die-cut Business Cards
Among the many types of plastic card printing that I’ve managed during my 30 years in this industry, I think die-cut cards are among the most interesting from a visual perspective. Whatever shape or design you can dream up, there’s a printer out there who can make that dream come true. This printing technology is […]
Know Your Plastic Card Color Options
About 95% of our plastic card printing ends up what we call white core. The core is the color of the plastic through and through. Many of our customers submit their own creative four-color designs for printing; others use our pre-made templates. In either case, no matter what colors are used on the surface of […]
The ‘Skinny’ on Thickness for Plastic Card Printing
When you request a quote for plastic card printing, you may not even be thinking about the thickness of the cards. And that’s OK. Lots of our customers rely on us to suggest the appropriate thickness for their plastic card order. However, depending on the way your cards will be used, thickness may be an […]
How Plastic Cards Are Printed and Why It Matters
There are four main methods of plastic card printing: offset lithography (both traditional and digital), surface printing, silk screening and thermal printing. As I mentioned in my blog post last week, there are three very good reasons why offset litho is an excellent choice when it comes to plastic, including color matching, image quality and […]
3 Reasons Why Offset Litho Is Ideal for Plastic Card Printing
Certain aspects of the printing industry have undergone major changes in the three decades since I started my career. Today, you have many commercial printing options: traditional offset litho, surface printing, silk screening, thermal printing and digital (direct-to-plate) printing. However, in my experience, business pros – such as those in marketing, sales, public relations and […]
The Five Best Ways to Improve Plastic Card Security
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), identity theft and other scams cost Americans $1.52 billion in 2011. The agency states that identity theft has remained its no. 1 complaint for the past five years. For those who issue credit cards, ID cards and other types of plastic card products, this issue is top of […]
Contact vs. Contactless Smart Cards: Which Is Better?
Although smart cards are technological wonders that represent the next generation of magnetic stripe plastic cards, they may or may not be right for your business. Before you make the leap from traditional mag stripe cards to smart cards, you should ask yourself some questions. Then, if you’re ready to move forward with this investment […]
