Its been a busy old week for us, still at the tail end of Colleges and freshers fairs which is standing joke in the office “its that time of year again”! You would not believe the number of customer who at the very very very last minute decided they needed plastic cards for an event or had been let down by another company. We helped where we could. The most popular product over this busy period was the full colour solid plastic cards 760 microns followed by our frosted plastic cards.

Hopefully we will have time for a lunch break next week!

Bye for now and Happy Friday

Some plastic card examples

A busy week is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

This morning I thought to myself, its going to be quiet this week…well….how wrong could I be, lots of orders for full colour solid plastic cards, some membership cards, not so many frosted yet but I am sure there will be a few by the end of the week.

I hope the rest of the week isn’t quite so busy, I would like a lunch hour once this week please!

Lets all look forward to even happier Friday

Happy Monday is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

Its been greatly reported in the news that the UK economy has decreased by .5% when a growth percentage was expected.

Well I’m no economist but the VAT rise is / has affected people views on spending, if the government want people to spent why increase the VAT rate!

We have encountered a small growth in the number of enquiries for plastic membership cards, I’ve probably said this on a few occasions before and will most probably say again – membership cards are a positive way to ensure a member feels valued or even better a discount card offer 5% or more off products/services valid until xxx to try and encourage cash flow.

I wish you all the very best of success in these uncertain times, if you feel any of our products will help your business please get in touch.

Bye for now

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The economy is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

As you are probably aware we stood a stance a year ago, probably longer, that if anyone wanted a sample pack of our plastic cards we would ask for a SAE, some people have got very upset about this and repeatedly phoned up to try and just get us to post one. Thing is when we did post them with no questions asked very very few people who requested them actually placed an order, we are guessing its because they have gone off the idea of ordering or found a cheap company who outsource to China.

A recent example of this is someone who phoned us for a quote, I quote accordingly for 1000 x 760 micron plastic cards with no optional extras. They asked for samples and I asked him to follow the instructions on our website regarding the SAE.

This person phoned up today to say he had received the samples and has a few questions, great fire away I say, first question: do you do cards with security chips in them Answer: no. Oh that answers all my questions then.

So to summarise this person needs plastic cards with security chips which we do not offer and never have offered, which means had we spent money on postage for the samples this maybe be wasted. Not to say he wont come back in the future for plastic business cards but obviously at present he needs chips!

Bye for now

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Sample packs we send is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

You have probably seen the clip on either you tube or BBC news now about the lady who was sooooo busy sending a text message from her mobile in a shopping centre that she did not realise an indoor pool / fountain display was in front of her….in case you have not seen this….you guessed it…she tripped over the small wall surrounding this and went head first in to the water!

Bet she is glad all her credit cards are plastic cards as other wise she would not have been able to purchase new DRY clothes from the surrounding shops!

If you haven’t see the clip have a look at BBC news, apparently over one million people have viewed it according to the BBC article however now looks nearer to 2 million!

Next time you are lookign to purchase business / membership cards just remember plastic ones are more durable, you never know what is round the corner!

Bye for now!

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Durable plastic cards is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

What is going on with the weather at the moment, one minute it feels like a summers day at 12 degrees (well feels like summer in comparison to the minus 14 we have had anyway!) next thing I’m waking up to a icy car windscreen and frosty grass. The poor plants in the garden will be getting confused.

At least you can use your plastic business cards for scraping ice off your windscreen for a little longer, we believe in added value you know!

I’ve heard rummors that some areas will have snow this week. If you get any snow pop us a post back to let us know where you are or better still send a photo of a snowman you have built!

Can’t want for the spring

Bye for now

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Funny old weather is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

The design service can be requested via a form which asks various questions.

We ask the customer to provide as much information as possible to help with the design process, this way we can ensure that the design is customised as much as possible to the customers own vision. We provide examples of past work which can help provide ideas to the customer and we can base there design around on of these if required. The more information we had to go off the easier it is to create a stunning design based on the customers own needs and requirements.

Logos etc can be uploaded to the design request form, ideally these are provided as line artwork and in a high enough resolution so that the quality will not suffer when the cards are printed.

Please give the design request for a go if you are looking for a personalised design.

Alternatively you can email your own artwork to us, we will provide an email proof for your approval.

Bye for now.

This clear plastic card is printed with 3 ink colours

Free design on clear plastic cards is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

We have a customer at the moment who submitted terrible artwork for the full colour cards, he received his postal proof and was not happy with a number of things. My colleague very kindly agreed to wrestle with this artwork, free of charge and sent a photo-realistic proof over by email for him to approve prior to production of his 2nd postal proof.

He approved this email proof so we started production on the 2nd postal proof however the very next day the customer contacts us saying there is a typing mistake which our spell check department had not picked it up. My colleague was a little upset by this as it had taken him a long time to sort this customers artwork out and obviously he did not even bother to check the email proof properly. We do not have a spell check department, as a lot of our customers provide there own artwork (as this customer did!).

We are currently in the process of stopping production of the 2nd postal proof and yet again for no cost changing the customers own artwork.

I am not sure what the moral of this story should be, it could be for us not to fix customers artwork, make customers wait for 24 hours to approve an email proof, don’t bother at all the email proofs as they are not checked properly! Or should we just put this down as experience and try to to taint every customer with the same brush. Personally I think the latter is the best option however it is difficult!

Please please please, if you are placing an order with us, could you double and triple check all email proofs before approving them. Thank you!

Bye for now

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Plastic cards – check the artwork is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

We are now offering metallic gold and silver base cards (for the full colour plastic cards) on a solid PVC stock.

This product offers a really professional image, either for membership schemes or business cards.

There is one limitation with this product, we can not offer any white text/images (as there is not white base to show through the CMYK printing). Don’t let this put you off through as anything you have within your design with is white will simply show as the metallic base colour, This effect can look very good.

At the moment we can only offer this product in the 760 micron thickness, We are trying to source thinner stock but at the moment we are struggling. For most people this isn’t a problem with this product as they usually want the thickest possible product to give a professional look.

Place your order now!

A metallic plastic card

Metallic plastic cards is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

The idea is that this is a way to provide small runs of cards for a great price to customers but with minimal production time spent on the order hence how we can offer such good prices.

Unfortunately some customer’s do not appreciate that we want finished print ready and final artwork to quality for this offer and submit copious amounts of artwork to the wrong specification after we have spent time reviewing it and sending an email proof back. This really is not the way the special offer is meant to work!

If you want to take advantage of this truly wonderful offer please send your artwork over to the correct specification and we will be pleased to process it your order for you.

Bye for now.

A full colour plastic card

Plastic cards – special offer price is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd