Plastic cards: materials and technological process

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For an ordinary consumer, a plastic card visually looks like a solid product. In fact, it consists of four layers of material (a couple of plastic layers and the same number of laminate layers).

In terms of colors, the base material is classic white, as well as with two shades - blue and yellowish. The initial shade of the material is negligible, but may affect the appearance of the final product. According to the thickness of the plastic, the standard version is distinguished - 0.3 millimeters, and the thin one - 0.15 millimeters. Due to modern printing technologies, you can get an interesting and original design that will distinguish your plastic card from other options.

The production process of plastic cards is not complete without double-sided lamination of the card. This item is required. The plastic layers already printed for the card are put into a device called a laminator. Here the layers are for some time under high temperature and high pressure - as a result, the plastic sheets are baked together with the laminate layers.

Card making process and size


It is worth saying that the laminate is also distinguished by the degree of thickness. Thin laminate - 0.06 millimeters. The standard version is 0.08 millimeters. Thickened - 0.1 millimeters. Mainly, laminate of standard thickness is used for the production of plastic cards.

Dimensions of the finished plastic card
As a result, we get the final product with a thickness of 0.76 millimeters (two layers of plastic with a thickness of 0.3 mm and two layers of laminate with a thickness of 0.08 mm). This size corresponds to the generally accepted ISO 7810 standard. Naturally, cards are not printed individually. They are made in solid sheets of A3 or A4 size, and only after that they are cut to size 86 * 54 mm.

The Rombus-Print company has many years of experience in the production of plastic cards for various purposes: discount, prepaid, passes, certificates and others. Our equipment allows you to improve the degree of protection of plastic cards by applying holograms and chipping, which is a significant protection of information from any intrusion. You can order plastic cards online or call the phones listed on the website. We print cards both according to the layouts provided by the customer, and we can offer the services of our in-house designer to design the appearance of cards.
 
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