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Card Durability and
Security
At: Kriya Corporation
Various types of materials are used
to protect plastic cards from
abrasion, wear, fading, alternation,
and duplications. Overlay varnishes
and laminate patches are the most
common materials used to enhance
card durability and security.
Card durability has to do with how
well the card withstands various
forms of environmental stress. They
include resistance to abrasion, such
as passing the card through a
magnetic stripe or bar code reader,
protection from image fading when
exposed to sunlight, and resistance
to damage when immersed in water or
exposed to chemicals.
Another important factor in
applications such as drivers
licensing is resistance to
tampering, alteration, and/or
replication. With the use of
protective materials such as
laminate patches with holograms,
cards can be constructed to
eliminate the potential of tampering
and alteration.
Card security means that the card
can be verified for authenticity.
Techniques include the application
of overlay varnish or over laminate
materials with hologram images. Use
of these materials in constructing
cards makes replication by anyone
without access to the custom
hologram image materials virtually
impossible.
| Material |
Card Life |
Durability |
Security |
| Overlay Varnish |
Up to 2 years |
Minimal |
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| Overlay Varnish with
Hologram |
Up to 2 years |
Minimal |
Visual |
| Clear Patch Overlaminate |
Up to 5 years |
High |
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| Patch Overlaminate with
Hologram |
Up to 5 years |
High |
Visual |
Overlay varnishes provide card
protection, but have a much shorter
life span that laminate patches -
and offer very little security (with
the exception of some hologram
varnishes). Varnishes are not a
solid covering and have multiple
tiny holes in the surface, which
allows the dyes to be drawn away
from the card. This will cause the
image on the card to blur and fade
due to UV light, shift in color, or
just wear away. The life expectancy
of a plain plastic card is up to 2
years.
Laminate patches offer better
protection than plain varnish, for
both security and life expectancy. A
patch laminate is, as its name
implies, a polyester patch that is
applied to the surface of the card
after printing. Laminate patches,
most often either .6 or 1.0 mil
thick are applied via a hot roll
laminating station. The life
expectancy of a plastic card with a
laminate patch is up to seven years.
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Photo
Identification Cards
By: Kriya Corporation
Photo ID cards are generally
produced using either a traditional
film based method or digital
printing technology. The older, more
traditional way to produce personal
ID cards is a multi-step
cut/paste/laminate process
consisting of:
• Taking an instant photo of the
person, then cutting and trimming
the picture to fit the card
• Separately printing the person's
ID information on a card-sized piece
of paper or card stock
• Laminating the picture and card
together
Student or employee ID badges, club
membership cards and driver's
licenses are a few examples produced
by this method. However, such cards
are easily counterfeited or altered,
and the card-making process can be
both labor intensive and time
consuming.
In contrast, digital card printing
is a one step process in which text,
graphics and pictures are printed
directly on a card from a computer
system. These cards are usually the
same size as a standard credit card
and made of a plastic called
Polyvinyl Chloride, or PVC. Plastic
cards can be printed single or dual
sided, and in monochrome or full
color.
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Digital access control
card with photo image,
hologram and fingerprint
scan |
Digital access control &
stored value debit
passenger card with
photo ID and smart chip
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Digital club membership
card with photo ID,
membership number and
bar code |
Holographic Photo
Identity Cards:
We at Kriya Corporation we are
one of the major manufacturers
Holographic Photo identity cards
with UV line for security
measures. For Example PAN Cards
for Department of Income tax;
Ministry of Finance, Government
Of India are manufactured by us.
We have Hi-tech plant for
manufacturing these cards at our
Mumbai Brach.
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Digital Card Printing
Advantages
At: Kriya Corporation-Ahmedabad
Image Quality
The image quality of digitally
printed plastic cards produced with is
far superior to those produced through
the traditional method described above.
Not only are digitized photo images
sharper, but also they can be edited for
color quality. Moreover, positioning of
graphical elements on the card is more
consistent, and text is both clearer and
more readable.
Flexibility
Plastic card printers can print
text, line art, and photographic images.
They can also encode magnetic stripes
and provide smart card chip programming
contact stations, all in a single step
process. Card design software provides
users the flexibility to change designs,
store and access multiple designs,
create variable text fields, and
implement database programs to store
images and track information.
Security
Plastic card printers can also apply
various protective materials, such as
hologram overlays, to make cards
resistant to tampering and alteration.
This helps make cards more secure
because they cannot be easily reproduced
or counterfeited.
Durability
Card protection materials such as
overlay varnishes, over laminate
patches, and secure card media each
provide various levels of card
durability by making the cards resistant
to abrasion, UV light exposure, water
damage, and exposure to liquid
chemicals.
Economy
In-house printing of plastic cards
using an ZEBRA card printer is far more
cost and time-efficient than the
traditional photographic
cut/paste/laminate method. A plastic
card printer is also more economical
than using a lithographic printer or
service bureau. Outside suppliers must
mark up card production costs
significantly in order to cover overhead
and servicing costs, making them
cost-effective only for large volume
applications.
Convenience
Printing your own plastic cards
gives you the convenience of being able
to produce cards on demand, when and
where you need them. Having your own
card printer capability also makes it
easy to make changes to card content or
design quickly.
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SCRATCH CARDS:
By: KRIYA CORPORATION
We at Kriya Corporation manufacture high
quality scratch off cards from 500 to 5
million. Rich full color, any shape, any
size. Give us a call or email at
contact@kriyacorp.com
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