plastic cards

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    Types of plastic for making plastic cards

    White plastic White plastic is a popular and economical option for making cards. There are no restrictions on printing, personalization and decoration when working with it. The color on the finished plastic card usually matches the one stated in the layout. Color distortions sometimes occur...
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    Unique types of plastic cards – for those who are tired of standards!

    SUPER-TAG Super-Tag cards are a full-fledged plastic card + a mini-card-keychain attached to it, which is easily separated from the main card. This is our company's own development, there are no analogues of Supertag cards in Russia and the CIS countries! The main card can be put, for...
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    Plastic cards with barcodes

    Barcodes have caused a real revolution in automatic identification systems. Time flies, the popularity of barcodes does not decrease. Why? A barcode, with a low cost of application, provides fast and accurate data collection. The price-performance ratio is beyond praise. A barcode is created...
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    How are smart cards different from regular plastic cards? Types, standards, areas of use.

    Why is a Smart card called smart? How is it different from a regular plastic card? What types of identification cards are there? What standards do they meet and where are they used? Let's try to understand all these questions. A smart card is a plastic contactless card with a chip that stores...
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    Embossing plastic cards - a reliable method of personalization

    Embossing of plastic cards is one of the personalization methods, in which the required text is mechanically pressed onto the surface of the card. This can be the card number, the owner's first and last name, etc. In our production, embossing of cards is carried out using not only the English...
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    Blanks for plastic cards – when smart cards were needed yesterday

    Usually, it takes from 2 to 5 days to produce a run of plastic cards. But what if you need the cards "right now"? There are several options for solving this problem. The first is to tell our managers when placing an order that you need the cards as soon as possible. We will try to find the best...
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    Guide to plastic cards: what types are there?

    There are many different types of plastic cards. They differ in appearance, shape, functionality and even the tasks they perform. Today we will tell you about the types of plastic cards and how they differ. Types of plastic cards are distinguished depending on the task they perform. There are...
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    Standard plastic cards. What types are there and how do they differ from each other.

    Standard cards are among the most popular. Everyone has them in their wallet. They are produced in the usual format of a small plastic rectangle. Standard cards are always the same size: length - 86 mm, height - 54 mm, thickness - 0.76 mm. PVC plastic is used for production. It is important...
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    What's unusual about non-standard plastic cards?

    How do plastic cards attract customers? First of all, with attractive offers. With the card, customers receive discounts, bonuses, gifts, etc. But appearance: design and format also plays an important role. The client will easily find the card in the wallet among two dozen similar ones if it...
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    What do we make plastic cards from?

    Obviously, plastic cards are made of plastic. But there are different types of plastic, and each company chooses the most suitable one for itself. It can be PVC, FBS, PC, PET, and even a special one - composite PVC (a mixture of different materials). Today we will talk about which one “Country...
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    Plastic cards with magnetic stripe: where to use?

    Magnetic recording of information was developed in the 1950s. And in the 1960s, work began on creating a secure way to store information on a plastic card. This development has been very popular for approximately 60 years and continues to be widely used on the market. What is a magnetic stripe...
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    Types of plastic cards and ways to personalize them

    Plastic cards are used in almost all areas of activity. Basically, cards are divided into the following types: Transport cards Transport cards: well-known travel cards that are used to pass through turnstiles, very convenient to use. The personalization method for this type of card is magnetic...
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    Types of barcodes used on plastic cards

    There are two types of codes: Linear The most common standards for this code are the EAN and Code Two-dimensional The most common standards for this code. QR and Data Matrix Any type of barcode can be used on plastic cards. It all depends on the equipment you have, which will...
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    Plates for the production of plastic cards

    Today, in the production of plastic cards, a huge variety of all kinds of materials are used, which can amaze any imagination with their technical characteristics and their characteristic indicators. For example, you can take a closer look at such an element of plastic card production as...
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    Types of protection for plastic cards

    Basically, there are two types of card protection - protection from mechanical influences, and protection of cards from counterfeiting. Mechanical methods of protecting cards increase the life of the card, and protection against counterfeiting is designed to eliminate the possibility of the...
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    Materials for making plastic cards

    The entire process of manufacturing plastic cards can be divided into several stages, each of which uses different materials. To understand them in more detail, you should consider each stage of production in detail. Offset printing material With this production method, thin PVC plates are used...
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    Color rendition when printing plastic cards

    Let's consider the problem of color rendering in the most commonly used printing technologies: offset printing, digital and sublimation. Offset printing We will not delve into the process of offset printing; it is only important for us to understand that with offset printing, only the printer...
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    Carding: Plastic cards under threat

    The market of plastic cards is rapidly developing. More and more people prefer this method of storing money and conducting financial transactions. The boom arose after the so-called salary projects of banks, which made the process of receiving a monetary allowance very convenient, were adopted...
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    Fraud using plastic cards

    Another scenario of fraud using plastic bank cards. The most vulnerable are Sberbank cards suitable for payments on the Internet - starting from Visa Classic and MasterCard Standard. Owners of “salary” Maestro and other Momentum are not subject to this technique. A small educational program 1...
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    How to protect your card on the Internet

    What is Internet payment? Oddly enough, in the terminology of payment systems there is no such thing as an Internet transaction. From the point of view of Visa and MasterCard, a transaction on the Internet is no different from a transaction in a terminal, by phone, IVR, etc. Payment systems...
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