Colored PVC Cards are one of the best ways to create great looking loyalty cards with your PVC Card printer,  quickly and cost effectively.  There are a few great advantages to using colored card stock as opposed to the traditional card stock.  The first is image quality.  If you are using a standard direct-to-card PVC card printer, you are probably aware that it can be hard to completely cover the entire front of a card with color.  Usually the edges still show a little bit of white.  Also, often times the color comes out slightly uneven due to the way the printer transfers the color using a CMYK heat transfer process.

The second advantage is cost.  Using a colored pvc card and a black or color monochrome printer ribbon, you will save a lot of money in printer ribbons.  A typical monochrome ribbon costs around $20-30 and yields about 1,000 cards!  Compare that to your standard color ribbon which costs anywhere from 50.00 on up and yields about 200-500 prints per ribbon depending on the printer. Read the rest of this entry »