Below is a glossary of plastic card terms used in this site and in the plastic card industry in general.

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Access Cards

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Access Control Cards

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Affinity Cards

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Barcode

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Bleeds (Graphic Designs)

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Blister Packs

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Branding

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Camera Ready Artwork

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Capture Station

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Combo Cards

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CR50 Plastic Cards

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CR80 PVC Cards

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Debit Cards

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Digital Imaging

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Drape Relief

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Dye Sublimation

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Electronic Artwork

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Emboss

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Embossing

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Encoding (Magnetic Stripes)

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Flat Packs

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Fluorescence

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Taggant Fluorescent Fibres

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Foil Stamping

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Font

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Four Colour Process

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Printing Fulfilment

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Gift Card

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Halftones

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Halograph

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High Definition Printing

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Holographics

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ID Cards

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Image Capture System

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Intaglio Printing

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Integrated Photograph

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Key Card

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Kinegram

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Kinogram

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Lamination

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Lanyard

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Latent Image

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Lithographic Printing

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Loyalty Cards

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Machine Readable

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Magnetic Stripe Reader

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Magnetic Stripes

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MCI Interface

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Memory Card

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Micron

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Microprocessor Card

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Mil (Measurement)

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Multicolour Security Printing

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Negative With Microlettering

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OCR Numbering

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ODBC

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Oersted

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Offsets (Printing)

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Overlay Varnish

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OVI

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Personalisation (Plastic Cards)

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Phone Card

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PIN and Scratch

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Pixel

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Pantone Matching System

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Prepaid Card

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Proximity Card

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PVC

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Resolution

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Re-Transfer

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Swipe Packaging