Gift card, a system of the marketing business model. It contains 2 main systems, magnetic stripe and RFID microchip.
There are different amount printed on the surface of the card, then it can be used as cash. It is similar with credit card, only it just can be used in specific place.
Basically, there are 2 standard sizes for gift cards, which is CR80 and CR50
CR80: 86*54*0.76mm (3 3/8*2 1/8”, thickness 30 mil)
CR50: 88.6*43.8*0.76mm (3 1/2*1 23/32”, thickness 30 mil)
Besides, break away card (combo card) and 3-up key tags are also available for gift cards;
Break away card: 85.5+28.5*54mm, 85.5+28+28*54mm, 60+25.5*54mm
3-up key tags: 85.6(3*28.54mm)*54*0.76mm, with a hole on each tag
Customized size is available
There are two main systems of gift card, magnetic and RFID.
Magnetic system (two categories):
Loco: 300 Oe, 600 Oe; Hico: 2750 Oe
Loco is a more popular option for gift cards.
RFID system (three categories):
LF: 125 KHz; HF: 13.56 MHz; UHF: 840-960 MHz
Frequently-used chips for gift card are:
LF (125 KHz)
HF (13.56 MHz)
ICode2, ICODE SLI-S,all the HF chip as you request
UHF (840-960 MHz)
UCode Gen2, UCodeHSL, G2XM, G2XL
Other chip types are available upon request.
As one of the prepaid cards which can be used not only in entity store, such as supermarket, jewelry store, salon, flower store, toy store, book shop, you can see lots of these stores have some gift and reward cards that have some money in it, which can be rewards for clients, members and also can be a wonderful gift for relatives, and you can realize that is also a wonderful advertisement for promotion.
And also you can notice that nowadays we not only have the entity store gift cards, but also the online store gift card like amazon gift card, iTunes gift cards. You can purchase some products from online shop. Sometimes when you receive the package, you can find out that there are gift cards sent by shop owners that you can use them as cash next time.
As the gift card typically have barcode (serial number) and magnetic stripe (chip), it could be encoded to associate with each other. Encoding the same data of the barcode (serial number) into the magnetic stripe (chip). When you scan a card, the data in the magnetic stripe appears the same on the card.
Available Crafts:
Hot stamp (gold/silver/red), Laser silver/gold, Laser Engraving, Ink jet printing, Scratch off panel, Barcode/QR code, Thermal printing, Hologram, Embossing, Adhesive sheet, UV ink, Hologram, Hole punch, etc.
Printing equipment:
Heidelberg offset printing machine
Printing effect:
Nexqo understands Printing is key issue to meet client’s satisfactions. Therefore Nexqo prints cards strictly according to client’s layout. Keeping the consistency between printing effect and approved layout is always the priority to Nexqo.