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Transparent card production, what is a transparent card?

2013-05-07 · In the current card manufacturing market, many customers and merchants pursue personalized products, so transparent cards like these can meet the personalized needs of many customers. Let's take a brief look at what a transparent card is.

Transparent card

In the current card manufacturing market, many customers and merchants pursue personalized products, so transparent cards like these can meet the personalized needs of many customers. Let's take a brief look at what a transparent card is.
The transparent card is made of transparent PVC material, presenting a transparent three-dimensional visual effect and enhancing the plasticity of the card design. By combining printing and other processes, cards can be made with semi-transparent, fully transparent, and partially transparent areas. Transparent cards present a three-dimensional visual effect, enhancing the design flexibility and making them more fashionable and elegant. Depending on usage needs, magnetic stripes, barcodes, chips, and other features can also be added.

Dimensions of transparent cards

Standard transparent card size: 85.5mm * 54mm * 0.76mm
Special-shaped transparent cards can be made in various sizes and shapes according to the design draft

The transparent card is made of transparent PVC material, presenting a transparent three-dimensional visual effect and enhancing the plasticity of the card design. By combining printing and other processes, cards can be made with semi-transparent, fully transparent, and partially transparent areas. Transparent cards present a three-dimensional visual effect, enhancing the design flexibility and making them more fashionable and elegant. Depending on usage needs, magnetic stripes, barcodes, chips, and other features can also be added.
 
A transparent card, wherein below the laminated front is a front-facing intermediate material, with general ink printed on the upper end of the intermediate material, and a light-blocking ink is printed on the lower end of the intermediate material. Below the light-blocking ink is an interface layer intermediate material, with a back-facing intermediate material below the interface layer intermediate material, and the upper end of the intermediate material on the back is printed with light-blocking ink. Additionally, a general ink is printed on the lower end of the intermediate material on the back, and a back-side lamination is provided below the general ink. This light-blocking ink can achieve the effect of blocking and reflecting infrared rays. Therefore, when the transparent card is inserted into an ATM machine, This gloss blocking ink can block the identification light source from penetrating the transparent card, allowing the bank ATM machine to recognize the presence of the card and thereby perform the card's related functions. This application of the gloss blocking ink overcomes the problem of transparent card data being inaccessible to ATM machines.  

Transparent cards are made from transparent materials. The front and back surfaces of transparent cards are partially transparent, allowing logo logos to be transparent, fully transparent, or semi-transparent, giving a high-end appearance. Transparent cards can be made with both small or large embossed codes to create embossed cards, with gold or silver stamping and signature strips. Depending on the usage needs, magnetic stripes and barcodes can also be added.

Common manufacturing processes for transparent cards:
01. Transparent cards can be designed according to materials provided by the customer, or the design draft can be provided by the customer   
02. Transparent cards come in thicknesses of 300g, 350g, and 400g, and can also be made into other thicknesses.   
03. The standard size for transparent cards is 85.5mm x 54mm, with rounded corners. It can also be made in other sizes.   
04. Transparent cards can be printed on either single-sided or double-sided printing, using screen printing or offset printing (CMYK four-color printing).   
05. Each transparent card can be sprayed with different numbers, PIN codes, or text.   
06. Transparent cards can be marked with signature slips or writing boards (areas where manual writing is allowed).   
07. Transparent cards can be equipped with low-density or high-density magnetic strips (three-track magnetic strips) according to customer requirements.   
08. Transparent cards can be embossed, and the codes can be stamped in gold or silver.   
09. You can punch round or strip holes on the transparent card.   
10. Watermark and scratch strips can be printed on transparent cards (commonly used for recharge cards, phone cards, lottery cards, etc.).   
11. Transparent cards can be printed with various types of barcodes.   
12. The numbers on transparent cards can be arranged in sequence, or personalized or irregular numbers can be used.   
13. Transparent cards can be made into square, round, or any other irregular shapes.   
14. The background color of transparent cards can be made in imitation gold or imitation silver.   
15. You can stamp the transparent card with gold or silver color.   
16. The surface of transparent cards can be made matte or glossy, with a subsurface finish.   
17. Transparent cards can be made of white PVC material, matte transparent material, or fully transparent material.   
18. Printing colored transparent ink is somewhat challenging, commonly seen on cards from European and American countries.

Transparent cards are currently one of the more difficult PVC cards to produce, so we mainly focus on quantity. The larger the quantity, the more advantageous it is. If you need to make transparent cards, feel free to contact us.

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