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Our process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six steps from a rough idea to a box of finished cards<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

No account to create, no portal to learn, no automated quote that arrives three days later. You send what you have, a person reads it, and you get a fixed price with a proof attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Start step one<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Read the FAQ<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tell us what the card has to do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Card type, quantity, and how it needs to work: swipe, tap, scan, or plain print. A photo of your current card and the make and model of your reader will save a round of questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Get a fixed quote \u2014 usually same day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We reply with pricing per card, material and finish options, lead time, and anything in your request that will cause trouble. The price does not move later because of \u201csetup\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Send artwork, or let us rebuild it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Print-ready PDFs are ideal. A logo and a photo of an old card also work \u2014 prepress is included. We set bleed, safety margins and the stripe or chip keep-out zone for you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Approve the digital proof<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Within one business day you get a proof at final size, plus a note on anything that will not print well. Nothing goes to press until you reply with an explicit yes by email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Print, encode and check<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Production runs 5\u20137 business days. Magnetic stripes, chips, barcodes and variable data are encoded during production, then a sample batch is tested against the spec you supplied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pack, ship and archive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cards ship tracked to the US or Canada, sorted and banded how you asked. We keep your print files and encoding spec so the next reorder is one email, not a new project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Turnaround<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typical timings for a standard order once we have usable artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quote<\/th>Same business day<\/td><\/tr>\n\t\t
Digital proof<\/th>Within 24 hours<\/td><\/tr>\n\t\t
Production<\/th>5\u20137 business days<\/td><\/tr>\n\t\t
Ground transit<\/th>2\u20135 business days<\/td><\/tr>\n\t\t
Rush option<\/th>On request<\/td><\/tr>\n\t<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Timings start after proof approval. Orders with variable data or RFID encoding can need an extra day for testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before you order<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four things that save a week of back-and-forth<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Your reader model<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The make and model of your door reader, PMS or POS tells us more about encoding than any specification document.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A photo of the old card<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Front and back, straight on. It shows dimensions, stripe position and print technique faster than a brief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The real quantity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Adding 20% headroom now is cheaper than a 100-card shortfall later, because reorders have their own minimum run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The in-hand date<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tell us when the cards need to be at the front desk, not when they should ship. We work backwards from the deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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If something goes wrong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would rather reprint than argue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Custom printing has a small number of ways to fail, and most of them are ours: a misregistered colour, a stripe encoded to the wrong format, a bad laminate. When that happens, the remedy is a reprint, not a credit note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the error came from artwork or data you supplied \u2014 a typo in a member list, a low-resolution logo \u2014 we will show you exactly where it came from and quote the reprint at cost. Either way you get a straight answer, not a ticket number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the refund policy<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Shipping policy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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