Over the xmas 2011 break we were busy updating our example and template pages for plastic cards.

The links below show the new plastic cards examples:

Full colour plastic cards examples

Frosted clear plastic cards examples

Satin black plastic cards examples

Metallic plastic cards examples

White plastic cards examples

Membership cards

Loyalty cards

Key cards

Business cards

Some plastic card examples

New plastic card template pages is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

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

Plastic cards with optional extras is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

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

Personalisation on plastic cards, our bureau personalisation service is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

It is amazing that we have quite a number of customers who have plastic cards in stock yet have not called them off from there stock for over 12 months,

We have decided to politely enquiry as to whether they still need them as unfortunately our storage space is not endless.

If the cards are no longer require we will securely destroy them.

Alternatively if they are still require we will hold them for a further 6 months. If they are not required within this time we will contact the customer again and ask if they requirement them destroying or posting to them.

I do not envy my colleague having this job as it is quite time consuming!

Some plastic card examples

Bureau personalisation on plastic cards is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

I hope you have all had time to recuperate over the Easter weekend and are ready to order your plastic cards.

A lot of customers have realized that there membership / loyalty schemes are really taking off and more cards are required urgently.

If you have ordered membership or loyalty cards with us earlier this year it may be time to double check your stock and re-order more plastic cards if required. Why leave it to the last minute and potential upset new members or customer as you do not have cards available for them.

On a final point, we all have the May bank holidays to look forward to  :-)

Some plastic card examples

Easter has been and gone is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

However, today this customer returned to us and said the following:

Some plastic card examples

Beware of low quality plastic cards with poor service is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

However, as usual, if you have a rush order, email your artwork and details to us and we will see how we can help you.

To assist with the hassle that the Easter bank holiday causes, we are advising customers whose orders are being dispatched on Thursday to be delivered on Saturday AM, unfortunately, this does cost extra but will help to ensure that the customers plastic card order is delivered on Saturday AM rather than on Tuesday the following week.

Some plastic card examples

Plastic card rush orders before the Easter bank holiday weekend is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

-  Orders with magnetic strips need to be tested to ensure they work ok before the full order is printed. Occasionally the proofing stage can highlight problems before the full order is printed.
-  The above also applies for barcodes.
-  Colours can come out differently then expected when the artwork is printed on to plastic cards.
-  A printed proof may highlight any areas of the artwork which have been provided by the customer as proof quality/low resolution. The customer can then decide if they have the ability to provide the artwork in a better quality.
-  Optional extras such as embossing can be applied to show the final result, sometimes embossing may cover key text which the customer has not realised previously.

The above are example but highlight the obvious reasons for producing postal proofs.

Most plastic cards companies, often those shipping the cards into the UK from the far East, do not offer postal proof I think this is basically because it would take far to long to ship a sample card with the customer artwork on to the UK. Please bear this in mind when ordering cards from a company who does not produce the cards in the UK. Imagine if your full order arrived and it looked terrible or the magnetic strips did not work, I doubt anything could be done.

However, it may not be obvious that some companies are not producing the cards in the UK, i.e. their sales office may be here in the UK, so you need to ask them if the cards are produced here in the UK or if they are shipped in from the far east etc.
Place your order with us and receive your postal proof before we print your full order. This is to ensure full review and testing of any optional extras can occur before you commit to your full order being printed.

Some plastic card examples

Postal proofs for full colour plastic card orders is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

By split orders, I mean where a customer wants to order, for example, the quantity of 2000 cards but this consists of 2 separate cards.

We can sometimes offer discounts for these orders as long as the print ready artwork is submitted at the same time and the orders for the the two cards are the same (e.g. same product, delivery address, payment detail etc). Quite often this works out an economical way to order business cards for a number of staff members.

Please contact us for more details. We would just need to know how many cards in total you require along with the quantity of each and any optional extras such as barcodes, signature panels, numbering what you require.

Some plastic card examples

Split orders for full colour plastic card orders is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd

We provide email proofs to ensure that the artwork has not become corrupt and that we have the correct files for them (e.g. we have not by accident selected the wrong one from our printing files). Customer seem to use them to proof read there own artwork! This really is not the point of them and basically causes unnecessary work for both the customer and for us.

We obviously want customer to be as happy as possible hence providing email proofs to ensure the artwork is correct. However we do really need to receive only the finished final, print ready, signed off artwork. Its such a shame that some customer consume so much of our time meaning that we can not help more customers in a quicker space of time.

We had a customer today who requested a 3rd email proof to show round a meeting they are having on Friday and they can not even confirm there embossing requirements which may mean a 4th submission of artwork.  We are wondering why they can not show their own artwork around the meeting? Surely this wold be easier for all concerned!?

Any comments would be welcome. We do not want to upset customers but we simply do not have enough time in the day.

Some plastic card examples

Plastic cards and email proofs is a post from: Colour Plastic Cards Ltd