Plastic cards are the most
prevailing promotional
tool to market your company and yourself. Business card speaks about
the business you are in and organization that you belong to. It defines the
status of the business its integrity, impact and impression. So business card
should be thus designed to create an impression and stand out in this
competitive world.
Screen printing is the earliest plastic card
printing method and the traditional process, operation is more complex, but
cannot printing true color in high-quality.
Screen printing used to produce relatively simple
and no gradient color plastic cards, in addition, it used to print gold
background and silver background, signature panel, UV and watermark. Generally
we only can print the silkscreen card by manual not by machine. Because of
printing speed is slower, then when using silkscreen printing to do it, the
labor costs are relatively high.
Offset printing is the most widely used in plastic
card printing process, using four-color offset printer to print on single-layer
PVC and then laminated, punched, encode magnetic strip, print embossing number
and other processes. Now our company has two Paul Hyde four-color offset
printers, able to meet the huge market demands, large-scale production, quality
and efficiency.
These cards can improve the way of novelty
printing, with this kind of printing in plastic card surface can show the
effect of sparkled, it looks more upscale and fine, to meet the individual
needs of different customers. Processes of printing this kind of cards are silk
printing silver/gold background first, and then print other colors and contents
on the metallic background after the ink is dry completely. As this kind of
printing must be prior screen printing of silver/gold background, so printing
speed is relatively slow, labor costs are relatively high.
Plastic photo card is a kind of personalized card
in recent years. The main production method is using imported dye-sublimation photo
ID card printer (such as the United States FARGO), the investment is relatively
large, and the cost is high. The highly personalized information can fully
reflect the company image, particularly for service industries and the window
industry, widely used and in great market demands. But production costs are too
high.
Plastic card printing can
also apply various types of card protection materials to make cards resistant
to tampering and alteration. These protection materials, including hologram
overlays, make cards more secure because they cannot be easily reproduced or
counterfeited.
