Fundraising Cards Printing Basics At-A-Glance

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Fundraising Cards Printing [top]

The appearance of your fundraising cards, can have a real impact on the success of your fundraising campaign.

The best fundraising card printing assures you of crisp colors, clear images and logos and options that work well. If you settle for less than the best, your program might suffer from blurry printing, incorrectly charged mag stripes and cards that just don't wear well. Choose My1Stop for your fundraising cards and you'll get the best plastic cards - at a great value. Just follow the guidelines below.

Choosing the right background color for your fundraising cards is an important first step toward good plastic card design. Choosing a colored card does provide an attention grabbing design but colored plastic cards can limit your design options. Choosing a card with a white background actually can be almost as affordable and certainly provides a wider range of design options. Using our digital printing you can design your fundraising cards to be printed in full color - using every color you can think of. Digital printing on a white background card is the best approach when using colored graphics like logos, pictures or other images and colored text. If your design needs are for a single ink color only, printing on plastic colored cards will provide a simpler design and appearance.

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Fundraising Cards Printing - Sizes [top]

Our standard fundraising cards are printed on 3 3/8” x 2 1/8” plastic cards. This is the same size as a standard credit card and is often referred to as the CR 80 size. Fundraising cards can be ordered so that the card is “split” into two or three pieces, depending on your specific needs.

What’s the right size for your fundraising cards?

For most fundraisers, the standard fundraising card size of 3 3/8" x 2 1/8" will be the right size. This size is what most of your patrons are familiar with and this size fits well into standard size card carriers, wallets and pockets. The standard fundraising card size also provides a great canvas for your logo, tag line, event name or almost any message and graphics you need.  This standard size is also more economical than choosing a custom size or shape.

An economical approach to a unique size and shape is to choose the grocery-store like key chain card. When printed as fundraising cards, each 1 1/6" x 2 7/8" card can be less expensive than the traditional 3 3/8" x 2 1/8" plastic cards. The limitation of using these smaller plastic fundraising cards is that your design area is quite small. If you do think that a mini card or other custom shape or size is right for your project, just let our customer service or graphic design team know. Get a custom mini-card quote.

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Fundraising Cards Printing - Material [top]

The most economical choice of fundraising card material is our standard white 30 mil plastic. This is the same material thickness that most traditional credit cards are printed on. Other standard fundraising card thicknesses include 24 mil and 20 mil white plastic. Custom materials are available, but they are less economical than our standard white 30 mil plastic.

You can choose from many plastic card colors as well. Keep in mind that colored fundraising cards are fading in popularity. New photo-quality digital printing methods open up the design and color possibilities for fundraising card printing. We specialize in digital plastic card printing on the white or clear material. We give you a more economical way to get the exact color you want at affordable prices.

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Fundraising Cards Printing - Options [top]

Magnetic strips and perhaps signature panels are the options most used on plastic fundraising Card printing. The mag stripe is used to encode each gift card with a unique number Ð not an actual dollar value of the card. The mag strip also can be encoded with other information about your program important to participating merchants. If you do not have a system for encoding your fundraising cards, our customer service might be able to match you up with a fundraising card solution provider.

Though not often used in fundraiser card printing, a signature panel can provide a way to prove that the fundraising card belongs to the card holder. Answer the questions below to determine the options you need on you fundraising cards:

Fundraising Card questions:

Do I need to store data on a mag stripe (like card value and redemption info) on a mag stripe?

Will merchants or our group need to verify who the card holder is?

Do our fundraising cards require a barcode for distribution or tracking?

How frequently will the card holder use the card?

Is the card re-chargeable, 1 time use, or fixed value?

Do you currently have gift card processing capabilities?

Does your gift card processing call for magstriped, barcoded or just numbered cards?

For example, if the plastic card will be used for repeat purchases - can it be re-charged or does it store data that indicates the card balance to merchant systems? If so, you'll need a mag stripe.