plastic cards

  1. Tomcat

    Types of plastic cards and ways to personalize them

    Plastic cards are used in almost all areas of activity. Basically, cards are divided into the following types: Transport cards Transport cards: well-known travel cards that are used to pass through turnstiles, very convenient to use. The personalization method for this type of card is magnetic...
  2. Tomcat

    Types of barcodes used on plastic cards

    There are two types of codes: Linear The most common standards for this code are the EAN and Code Two-dimensional The most common standards for this code. QR and Data Matrix Any type of barcode can be used on plastic cards. It all depends on the equipment you have, which will...
  3. Tomcat

    Plates for the production of plastic cards

    Today, in the production of plastic cards, a huge variety of all kinds of materials are used, which can amaze any imagination with their technical characteristics and their characteristic indicators. For example, you can take a closer look at such an element of plastic card production as...
  4. Tomcat

    Types of protection for plastic cards

    Basically, there are two types of card protection - protection from mechanical influences, and protection of cards from counterfeiting. Mechanical methods of protecting cards increase the life of the card, and protection against counterfeiting is designed to eliminate the possibility of the...
  5. Tomcat

    Materials for making plastic cards

    The entire process of manufacturing plastic cards can be divided into several stages, each of which uses different materials. To understand them in more detail, you should consider each stage of production in detail. Offset printing material With this production method, thin PVC plates are used...
  6. Tomcat

    Color rendition when printing plastic cards

    Let's consider the problem of color rendering in the most commonly used printing technologies: offset printing, digital and sublimation. Offset printing We will not delve into the process of offset printing; it is only important for us to understand that with offset printing, only the printer...
  7. Tomcat

    Carding: Plastic cards under threat

    The market of plastic cards is rapidly developing. More and more people prefer this method of storing money and conducting financial transactions. The boom arose after the so-called salary projects of banks, which made the process of receiving a monetary allowance very convenient, were adopted...
  8. Tomcat

    Fraud using plastic cards

    Another scenario of fraud using plastic bank cards. The most vulnerable are Sberbank cards suitable for payments on the Internet - starting from Visa Classic and MasterCard Standard. Owners of “salary” Maestro and other Momentum are not subject to this technique. A small educational program 1...
  9. Tomcat

    How to protect your card on the Internet

    What is Internet payment? Oddly enough, in the terminology of payment systems there is no such thing as an Internet transaction. From the point of view of Visa and MasterCard, a transaction on the Internet is no different from a transaction in a terminal, by phone, IVR, etc. Payment systems...
  10. Tomcat

    Magnetic stripe reader for plastic cards on PIC16F628A

    So, again about plastic cards. Currently, there are many different companies that produce plastic cards and anyone can easily make one for themselves. The information capacity of the card is very limited, but it is quite sufficient to write on it, for example, your first/last name, login...
  11. Tomcat

    About plastic cards

    So, probably, each of us has those very cheerful pieces of plastic, on which a certain number of secret numbers are written, as well as the last name and first name in Latin transliteration. I want to tell the community about those same cards, and how it can help in business. Of course, and as...
  12. Father

    THE 2000 PLASTIC CARD CASE

    This case is somewhat reminiscent of the story of the most famous Russian carder Vladimir Levin, who broke into the protection of the American "City Bank" and threatened the collapse of the global financial system. A two-part film in the cycle "Criminal Russia"was made about this story. There is...
  13. Father

    A plastic card with an OLED panel was introduced in the USA

    Fintech company Sentry Enterprises introduced bank cards with built-in OLED panels. Thanks to the platform, called Radiance (https://www.oled-info.com/sentry-enterprises-launches-illuminated-credit-card-platform-powered-konica), plastic issuers will be able to embed screens produced by Konica...
  14. Lord777

    From cardboard to biometrics: the evolution of plastic cards

    In the movie "Time", people of the future pay for time by leaning their hand against the counter with a glowing clock implanted in it. But even now we can do without cash and pay for purchases with a smart watch or other gadgets. Existing means of payment have come a long way: from cardboard...
  15. Lord777

    Use of plastic cards

    The scope of application of plastic cards is expanding every day plastic cards are widely used for non-cash payments, access control, identity cards and other purposes. They can easily solve inconveniences with cash payments, with the provision of insurance services (plastic card as an insurance...
  16. Lord777

    Plastic cards-description, types of plastic cards, differences

    Table of contents Bank card payment systems Credit and debit cards Types of plastic cards depending on their purpose Types of plastic cards by customer category Types of plastic cards by type of application Types of plastic cards by the method of recording information Plastic cards are a...
  17. Lord777

    Types of bank plastic cards and their features

    The rapid development of information technologies is also constantly affecting the banking sector: cash payments are increasingly being replaced by plastic card transactions. At the same time, according to experts, the volume of use of bank cards will only grow, because this payment instrument...
  18. Lord777

    Program for printing plastic cards PROKART

    The complex is designed to solve a wide range of tasks related to the development of the layout and personalization of plastic cards on desktop devices. User's Guide Installation instructions for Procard software File for installing a software instance Description Procart - this complex is...
  19. Tomcat

    Questions and answers on plastic cards

    What is the coercivity of a magnetic card? What does it define? The coercivity index determines how strong the magnetic field must be in order to demagnetize the strip. The higher the coercivity, the less likely the card will be demagnetized due to contact with other magnets: wallet clasps, for...
  20. Tomcat

    Development of a layout of plastic cards

    The print company provides a full range of services in the creation of plastic cards. If you want to order cards, but your layout does not fit the requirements (layout requirements), or you do not have a layout, it’s not a problem, our talented designers will be happy to help you: finalize...
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