A plastic card

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Plastic card - this general name means a plastic plate of standard sizes 54x86x0.76 mm, made of special, resistant to mechanical and thermal influences, plastic.

Plastic cards differ in type, production technology, purpose, functional and technical characteristics. Printers for printing on plastic cards are used for information application and lamination.

Nowadays, plastic cards are very widespread and are used in many areas. Most often, these are analogs of means of payment. In addition, cards are used to identify their owner, can serve as a discount, or be a method of forming consumer loyalty. The card type can be mini-cards, gift certificates, or contactless cards.

A plastic card can combine several functional purposes, for example, a pass is used to visually identify an employee, serves as an access card (opening doors), and is also a means of payment in a canteen of an enterprise.

Most plastic cards are formatted (ISO 7810 ID-1)

• Width - 85.6 mm ± 0.13 mm.
• Height - 53.98 m ± 0.06 mm.
• Thickness - 0.76 mm ± 0.08 mm
• Rounding radius - 3.18 mm ± 0.3 mm.

Purpose of plastic cards: identification cards and passports, identity cards and driver's licenses, student ID and technical passport of a car, social card, police officer card, for voting, pass and business card, club card, loyalty card and discount card, gift certificates, accumulative and bonus cards , payment cards (bank, credit, salary, debit), telephone cards, for IP-telephony, for payphones, communication cards, SIM-cards, USIM-cards, R-UIM-cards, prepaid cards for account replenishment and scratch service payment cards, parking cards and electronic tickets, cards with activation keys.

Plastic card technologies

• A plastic card with a magnetic stripe.
• Chip card.
• Smart card.
• Contactless cards.
• Contact cards.
• Combined magnetic chip cards.

Personalization of plastic cards

• Barcode - the application of information encoded in the form of a barcode on the map.
• Embossing - drawing on the surface of a plastic card alphanumeric information in the form of embossed signs, followed by typing (coloring).
• Magnetic stripe - drawing on a card of a magnetic information carrier with the subsequent recording of information on it.
• A signature panel is a special layer applied to the surface of the card that allows you to make inscriptions.
• Scratch - an opaque protective layer that is applied to the card to protect information: pin code, winning word, deposit code, etc.
• A contactless chip is a microprocessor-based data carrier that is built into the card and does not have external physical contacts.
• Contact chip.

Protection of plastic cards from reproduction and counterfeiting: contactless chip with an individual serial number, hologram, micro-font, microelements, overprint, guilloche patterns, UV paints, IR paints, holographic lamination, original signature of the owner, printing on special types of plastic.