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Guide – All about rewrite printing technology
Rewrite is a printing technology used to personalize rewritable cards. The rewritable card can then be erased and reprinted by the rewritable card printer, many times over, depending…
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Plastic card printing technologies
A plastic card printer lets you customize plastic ID cards and badges for multiple uses: employee badges, loyalty cards, student cards, payment cards, among others. The smooth surface…
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Data encoding on cards
Encoding involves adding data other than visual information to ID cards by integrating it onto a magnetic stripe or chip. Why use data encoding? Increased storage capacity: encoding makes…
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Rewritable printing
Rewritable printing technology does not require a ribbon to personalize cards. The card itself holds a thermosensitive material that turns visible when heated to a temperature of 356°…
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PVC Card printing
PVC cards, broadly known as plastic cards, require printers other than the traditional consumer-grade inkjet or laser printers, because of their smooth surface. Thermal transfer is the process…
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Encoding magnetic stripes
A magnetic stripe is the dark band/stripe which is featured on the reverse of a bank card, for example. The stripe is made up of tiny magnetic particles…
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Encoding contactless smart cards
A contactless card operates without any physical link with the reader: communication is performed through microwave frequencies. A contactless card consists of multiple components: There are different models…
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Encoding contact smart cards
Contact smart cards have been in use over the past 25 years, and more than a billion cards have been circulated so far. A smart card is a…
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Barcodes
A bar code is the first-level encoding option for plastic cards, and it is the most widely used method as well. Graphical encoding is performed as the badge…
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Holograms on cards
A hologram is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions. As opposed to 3D and virtual reality on a 2D…