Today you can not imagine your life without plastic cards.They are used widely in all spheres of human activity.Custody of funds, conducting payment transactions, providing access to various institutions, indetifikatsiya person, discounts and bonuses - it's all methods of use of plastic cards.The scope of their use is constantly expanding, but today known the following types of plastic cards, the division which is due precisely to the scope and method of use:
- Credit cards.These types of cards are the payment instrument by which the owners make non-cash payments and receive cash in retail outlets.
- Discount cards.These cards allow you to purchase goods and services with certain discounts previously agreed conditions.Design of plastic cards of this type usually coincides with the logo of the store that issued it.
- Club cards.Allow holders to have discounts and privileges in certain communities and clubs.
- Fuel cards.Used to pay for the vehicle refueling at service stations.
- Internet cards.With access to them is carried out to the Internet.Different types of data cards by value and focus on a specific range of users.They may have different requirements and different schedules on the Internet.
- Telephone cards and ekpress-payment.Pay for phone calls.
And, of course, whatever type has a plastic card, they must somehow distinguish between them.For this need and personalization of plastic cards (surface application information to distinguish them).The map can contain any information about its owner, or data cards, which are applied to it, or itself, or embedded chip.There are several ways in which there is a personalization of plastic cards.
- Barcode.
- Text numbering.
- Embossing.In this method, the surface of the card are pressed, and then stained with raised characters.
- chip.This type of personalization is a memory card which stores therein the specific information (depending on the type of card).It is inserted into the card during its manufacture.
- magnetic stripe.With it, there is a record of certain information.Reading and writing takes on a special device.Widespread use of such personalization is in the banking sector.
- Scratch-band.It hides the personal card number.To activate the erase protection layer.This kind of personalization is most commonly used in lottery cards and prepaid cards.
- color image.
- microlettering.On the surface of the card is applied to the string data, the size of which is so shallow that it can only be read with a magnifying glass.
- signature panel.The strip, which is applied to the personal signature of the cardholder.
Different types of cards may have either one way personalization or several.For example, the bank plastic cards commonly used embossing, magnetic stripe and signature panel.
