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Premium Plastic Cards

CardsPlus provides a wide selection of plastic cards: 

Premium white plastic cards: We have more than PVC!

Coloured Card Stock: From Blue to Pink to Silver, we have a wide selection of different colours!

Cards with Technology: We also stock magnetic stripe cards 

Contactless Smart Cards: We carry MIFARE RFID cards and a selection of Proxity cards

Contact Smart Cards: Contact Smart Cards (EEPROM) are a special order item, and we are well equipped to assist you.

 

Premium White Plastic Cards

CardsPlus provides a wide variety of premium blank cardstock for use in direct to card and retransfer process plastic card printers.

In addition to the commonly used PVC plastic card, we also offer a selection of more durable and eco-friendly options including ABS plastic cards, PET plastic cards, and Polycarbonate plastic cards.

Plastic Card Type 

 Size Thickness Printing ProcessCharacteristics
PVC Plastic CardsCR80-
86mm x 54mm

-1 mm
-076 mm (standard credit card thickness)
-045 mm (cardstock thickness)
-030 mm (paper thickness)
Direct to Card
or Retransfer
Economy Priced
Processes Well
Good mechanical strength
PVH Plastic CardsCR80-
86mm x 54mm
076 mmDirect to Card or RetransferBetter mechanical strength and heat resistance than PVC
ABS Plastic CardsCR80-
86mm x 54 mm
076 mmRetransfer ProcessHighly durable with a high resistance to temperature change.
PET Plastic CardsCR80-
86mm x 54mm
076 mmRetransfer ProcessConsidered environmentally “Green”, polyester based card with increased longevity and durability
Polycarbonate Plastic CardsCR80-
86mm x 54mm
076 mmRetransferHigh-durability, light weight and flexible and ecologically friendly

 
Coloured Card Stock

An option to provide colour to a basic monochrome print project, CardsPlus offers a wide range of basic and metallic coloured plastic cards.

076 mm thickness cards, made of PVC plastic in standard CR80 (86mmx54mm) size in colours including: black, blue, red, yellow, green, metallic platinum, metallic gold, metallic silver, and metallic copper.

 
Cards with Technology

Commonly used for access cards, membership cards and loyalty cards, magnetic stripe plastic cards are capable of storing data numerically or alpha numerically.

3 Track Magnetic Stripe cards are available in Hi Coercivity (HiCo) or Lo Coercivity (LoCo) in plastic CR-80 (86mmx54mm) size.
Read more about the functionality of magnetic stripe cards

 

 
Contactless Smart Cards


Standard sized blank contactless smart cards ranging in technology from the traditional proximity cards to MiFare 16 sector technology to combination cards are available.

CardsPlus supplies a full range of high quality contactless cards.

More information about contactless technology



Contact Smart Cards

Standard sized blank PVC cards embedded with smart chips available with various memory capacities
Smart cards are used in many applications worldwide, including:

  • Secure identity applications - employee ID badges, citizen ID documents, electronic passports, driver’s licenses, online authentication devices
  • Healthcare applications - health ID cards, physician ID cards, portable medical records cards
  • Payment applications - credit/debit cards, transit payment cards
  • Telecommunications applications- GSM Subscriber Identity Modules, pay telephone payment cards