We recently printed a black plastic card with a large gloss black pattern in the background.

When we received the artwork from the customer, we thought it would look good when printed but not this good!

The gloss black ink when printed on a satin black plastic card gives a very subtle watermark type effect. It can be seen more clearly as the card is angled in the light.

a stunning design

We produce plastic cards that have various optional extras.

The picture below is taken from our website which illustrates the various options available.

We are going to update our website shortly to include information about each extra as we have found that customers are often confused on ‘how they work’ often we get ask how a signature strip works.

We hope to make these updates within the next few weeks.

Optional extras available on our full colour plastic cards

Hi,

A customer emailed for a quote today for 250 full colour solid plastic loyalty cards with a signature strip. They attached to there quote request various low quality logos and photos and asked for a price and feedback regarding there ideas.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer free design advice (other than fixed technical issues when customer send over artwork which has in the main been submitted to the correct specification).

We provided this particular customer a quote which clearly stated that it included artwork however we received an email back saying that it was a lot more expensive that the price quote on our website. If we are to get involved with a customers artwork this takes up a lot of valuable time and resources and hence why an additional charge is payable. Customers may consider the artwork charges expensive but please bear in mind that the equipment, software and designers time are all expensive.

We are obviously more than happy to receive finished print ready artwork from customers, see specifications at http://www.cpcards.co.uk/artworkfullcolourplastic.html, obviously when this is supplied no artwork charges will apply.

Thank you for your understanding on this matter.

A photograph of various file copies of frosted and satin black plastic cards

Hello All.

Our special offer on the full colour solid plastic cards has definitely interested a lot of people. It really is a great offer and customers can obviously tell this!

Unfortunately a few people have got a little mixed up regarding the offer and seem to think it will include optional extras such as holes or signature strips.

We are sorry but at the moment the special offer does not include any optional extras.

Any optional extras on an order mean that the order takes longer to process and longer to produce. So unfortunately we are unable to offer the special offer prices with optional extras. Some customer have got quite upset over this. We have tried to make the webpage for the special offer clear however if anyone has any suggestions as to how we can take it clearer please do let us know.

We hope you understand & welcome any feedback regarding this area.

Special offer on plastic cards

Hello All,

I recently posted  blog about our special offer for the 760 micron full colour solid plastic cards.

We have received a large volume of telephone call regarding this offer and people are just asking whether the price is correct. Obviously the offer is a great one and I don’t think people can believe there eyes!

I can confirm that s of August 2009 the price is correct. There is no need to phone and check if it is valid as for all of August we can honer this price (hopefully for longer as well but we will confirm this at a later date).

All you need to do is email your finished artwork over to us and ensure that you have followed our artwork specifications.

Thanks for you understanding on this matter.

Special offer on plastic cards

Hi All.

I have posted a blog recently regarding the bureau personalisation service new webpages. Another addition we have made is a tailored quote form for this service.

If you need a quote for this service we now have a new quote form specifically tailored , please see details at - http://www.cpcards.co.uk/quotationpersonalisation.html

This quote form specifically mentioned the optional extras that are available with the service, namely,

Signature strips
Metallic gold or silver base cards
Magnetic strips(specifically without encoding)

At this point in time I am afraid that we can not encode the magnetic strips.

The form also asks the customer to clarify how often they wish to submit an excel file and approximately how many new members will be included in the excel file. This enables us to provide a tailors quotation for the customer based on there needs.

We hope that the new quote form helps to make quote requests for this products easier.

Bye for now.

Some plastic card examples

Hi All,

It’s one thing for us to produce good business cards and plastic cards but if the artwork supplied by the customer isn’t to the correct specification, then problems will arise.

We have in the last couple of months adopted a new approach to customer supplied artwork (predominantly for the full colour solid plastic cards).

On receipt all artwork is received to ensure it is technically ok to print.

If a customer supplies artwork which is nearly to the correct specification but needs small alterations we will make the alterations for the customer free of charge.

We will of course inform the customer that the artwork is not to the correct specification and ask that if any future artwork is submitted it is sent to us in the correct format.

We may occasionally ask for a deposit if extensive work is involved.

A lot of companies will accept any artwork files, even if they are technically not set up correctly and just print straight from them them resulting in the end result being less than desirable. We like to ensure that our customers are hippy with there cards and hence why we provide detailed artwork specifications and when necessary will reject artwork if the design team feels the quality of the end product will suffer. We do not reject artwork for the fun of it, we do it for the customers own benefit (some customer do not seem to realise this!).

We hope that our customer appreciate the help we provide.

A photograph of various file copies of frosted and satin black plastic cards

Hello,

I have great pleasure in announcing a special offer we are currently offering (as of August 2009).

The offer is in relation to our full colour solid plastic cards 760 micron thickness. Prices are as follows:

100 x cards = £75 + delivery & VAT
100 x cards = £95 + delivery & VAT

Please note: This offer is not available with any optional extras or with a postal proof.

More details on this great offer can be located at the following web link - http://www.cpcards.co.uk/specialoffer.html

To quality for this special offer all you need to do is email over you finish print ready artwork to the following specification http://www.cpcards.co.uk/artworkfullcolourplastic.html & quote special06 in the subject box/email.

Catch you soon

Special offer on plastic cards

Recently we have been having a lot of well, erm, all I can say is time wasters.

Every day we receive lots of requests for photo-realistic proofs or for our free design service on, for example our clear plastic cards, from mainly genuine potential customers.

However, we do get time wasters who enquire about our free design service and our design team then produce a design and email it to them for approval. They then get us to make a number of alterations, which we do promptly and for no charge, then without warning, the person what was previously contacting us, maybe several times a day simple stops contacting us.

We have found it doesn’t matter how many times we email them to politely ask what the situation is, they simply ignore us.

Out of courtesy we would appreciate some sort of reply, even if it is “Please stop contacting me, I no longer want to order the cards”

That is FINE!

At least we know where we stand and can then delete your order/artwork from our system and spend our valuable time focussing on our genuine customers!

argh!!!! rant over!

Some plastic card examples

Hi All,

I am sure you are aware of our bureau personlisation service by now. Just in case you are not this service is where we print the base card/design and hold them in our bureau office for you to call off with new membership details when you require them. For more information please take a look at the new webpages at - http://www.cpcards.co.uk/personalisation.html

Well, I just wanted to let you know that the webpages for this service have been updated.

We hope that you find them a lot easier to navigate and understand now.

However if you feel anything is not clear or if you just have a general enquiry regarding the bureau personalization service just let us know.

The bureau personalisation service really is a great way to ensure you members feel valued and appreciated.

Bye for now

Examples of bureau personalisation