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Plastic cards and free design

paulw — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:29:13 +0000

Hi All,

The free design service for our clear plastic cards, satin black and metallic plastic cards is going very well, we have varying numbers of requests a day but the quantity generally ranges from 20 to 50 a day.

Unfortunately, although we are designing the cards purely from the customers own input we find that after the initial communication we hear nothing back from them. Possibly an idea which disappeard as quickly as it appeared.

We have decided to now ask for a small deposit to start the design process, this is so that we can concentrate on genuine customers. You would be surprised how many people come on to us for plastic cards and after weeks of communication vanish off the planet!

It only a nominal amount and doesn’t cover the full cost of labour, software and admin time however we just feel a little commitment from the customer is required.

Hope you understand and don’t get upset by this, we are just trying to ensure genuine customers are getting our full attention.

Catch you soon

A clear plastic card

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Free design on clear plastic cards

paulw — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:24:36 +0000

We have updated the website to promote our free design service for frosted, satin black and metallic plastic cards.

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

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Our new satin black plastic business cards example page

paulw — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:29:12 +0000

Over the last few days we have been working hard to implement a new frosted clear business card example page found here. We hope that our customers will like the new way the cards are displayed in a fun fashion. Our new satin black plastic business cards example page is a post from: Colour Plastic [...]

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A stunningly beautiful black plastic card

paulw — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:48:18 +0000

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

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Frosted clear business cards and satin black cards – needed in a hurry

paulw — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000

We often have customers asking for frosted and satin black cards with a very short time period.

The standard turnaround time for this product is 7 to 10 working days.

This time frame builds in time for the printing plates to be ordered, produced and received. This can at worse case scenario take 3 working days.

The timeframe also includes time to actually print the cards and some room for any problems occurring. For example occasionally the printing plates may be damaged in the post / during transit.

We can offer rush order, which may sometime but subject to an additional charge to cover ordering express printing plates and paying staff to work overtime.

I just wanted to very briefly explain why this product does take a little time to produce.

Please contact us if you have any order you need really quickly.

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Easter has been and gone

paulw — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:44:35 +0000

Hello All,

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 :-)

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Beware of low quality plastic cards with poor service

paulw — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:52:53 +0000

Recently one of our long term repeat customers found ‘cheaper’ plastic cards from one of our competitors and because of the lower prices they had to order plastic cards from them so they could pass the saving onto their client.

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

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Hello Paul,

We have been using them at the request of our client and to be totally honest with you they are rubbish, as well as their service. You tend to get what you pay for I guess. However, for this quote their client has already had cards from you (via us) so is used to the higher quality cards that you produce.

I will be providing prices of both companies and letting the customer decide.

Many thanks,

David

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So it does go to show you that lower cost often does also mean a lower quality product with poor service.

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Plastic card rush orders before the Easter bank holiday weekend

paulw — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:23:20 +0000

Today we have been very busy with rush orders and we anticipate we will also receive a lot of rush plastic card orders this week. However, because of the Easter bank holiday weekend we are losing 2 working days (Friday and Monday) so this does not help us or the customers with a fast turnaround for those orders that are needed ‘yesterday’

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.

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Plastic cards and email proofs

paulw — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:43:28 +0000

We often have customers requesting email proof after email proof with very slight changes to their artwork. The email proofs we provide are basically just the customers own artwork sent back to them.

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.

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End of financial year

paulw — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:31:21 +0000

Well its the end of the financial year again and we are busy ensuring all invoices etc have been entered into the accounts. We would prefer to be assisting customer with there plastic cards orders however unfortunately government regulations and forms beckon.

Hopefully the year end will not disrupt our working practices too much and we will be up running at full steam shortly.

Lets hope that in the new financial year the economy picks up for all our customers, we wish you all the best of luck (good management goes a long way!)

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