With opportunities to include advertising on each side of the plastic and options like hi-read mag stripes, a key card printing project can seem daunting. The My1Stop team offers the helpful information below, knowledgeable customer service and a graphics design team to help you simplify your key card printing project.
Key card printing basics include card design and card functions. Combining the right materials with a solid design can produce cards that last, work efficiently - and perhaps most importantly - cards that pay for themselves through key card advertisements.
Key card features, typically, include magnetic stripes (mag stripes) and specific card size and thickness. Our mag stripes work with most popular key encoding systems and we offer several thicknesses of cards for various key slot requirements. The artwork that you add to your key card printing can vary from your logo and basic property information to ads paid for by local area merchants. To make sure that your key cards will be crisply and accurately printed, we use the best digital printing technology available. Use the information below to help you get your key card printing project rolling.
Key card printing starts with choosing your card color. If your key cards will not include advertising, and your graphics are a single color, you might consider printing your artwork on colored plastic cards. There are many colors available including, red, blue, green, pink and others. Typically, colored cards are printed with one ink color lighter ink colors on darker cards and darker ink colors on lighter colored cards. Colored card printing can keep your printing costs down - but - colored cards restrict the design of the artwork on you key cards. However, digital printing has made full color printing and affordable high quality alternative to colored card printing.
In fact, to attract local merchants to pay for advertisement on your key cards, you will probably want to print full color graphics onto a white card. Digital, full color printing enables you - or your advertisers - to use high quality graphics including photos and logos and multiple colors of text. White cards can cost slightly less than colored cards and digital printing tends to cost slightly more than one color printing. As a result, you can get full color key card printing at prices very close to color card prices. We recommend that you design your gift cards in full color to be printed on standard sized white plastic cards.
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