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and she wants to know if we have some kind of plastic material that is the same kind of thickness as a credit card that she can bar code and she needs 500 of these, size 3 X 2 inches. Anybody have any ideas. I found komatex at 1mm but I think a credit card is thinner than that. And, it has to be strong enough that little kids can't bend or break it. Help. Anybody?
------------------ Sharon Bigler A Good Sign Chambersburg, PA
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There's a gadget called the Millenium Marking System. You might think of it as a thermal printer for credit cards. You load the blanks into a hopper and tell it to print and away it goes.
I'm sure you could buy just the blanks if you have a way of imprinting the bar code.
In our case, the awards store down the block has the machine, and I just buy them from him.
If you would like to contact him, shoot me an email and I will look up the info for you.
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Bob, This lady tells me that she's going to bar-code these cards and that children are going to be swiping them through some machine. I asked her if the company she purchased the machine through couldn't give her the cards and she just laughed and said no. This just sounds weird to me. Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. I'll have to call her today and try to get more info from her.
------------------ Sharon Bigler A Good Sign Chambersburg, PA
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Credit cards are printed on .030 styrene. Look for a printing company that has the ability to print on plastics. They are printing phone cards by the millions on this material and will have the ability to round the corners so the card doesn't snag clothing or poke the eyes outs of the little kids.
Styrene is not unbendable or unbreakable as your client has requested. Just think about what you do with your old credit cards. For unbreakable you want a plastic called thin polycarbonate or thin Lexan. Check the plastics suppliers for it.
Depending on just what the client wants to do with this stuff you may be able to cut them inhouse. We recently cut up 300 1"x2" pieces of styrene with a paper cutter then put holes in them with a three ring punch. Client was going to write part numbers on them to keep track of all the parts of a machine he is moving from the US to Canada.
I could give you Canadian sources for this stuff but you likely need to find somebody local to keep the shiping expenses down. I know a plastics supplier by the name of Laird Plastics has several US locations and would carry both thin Lexan and styrene in sheet and roll forms.
Hope some of this makes sense.
P.S.... I like your company name.
------------------ Chuck Churchill, It's A Good Sign Inc. 3245 Harvester Rd, U-12 Burlington, Ont. Phone: 905-681-8775 Fax: 905-681-8945
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