At Arthur Blank & Company we believe that a commitment to quality requires continual investment in state-of-the-art technology and equipment.

From the moment a job arrives at our plant, we control the quality. In our prepress department, we convert electronic files to multi-color proofs and go immediately from computer to printing plate. Our 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility houses high speed offset and silk-screen presses, a computerized color matching system, a world-class lamination system, and an automated electronic card punching system that ensures precision round cornering and uniform dimension of each card. Our card personalization department uses the latest in high speed magnetic stripe encoding, personalization and numbering - meeting all ANSI and ABA specifications.

It's the latest and the best in technology - to ensure that your cards and our services remain the finest in the industry.

The following is a listing of our capabilities, processes, and equipment.


Macintosh and proprietary desktop graphic services equipment including a wide variety of input media formats, and high-resolution color proof output.
  Computer-to-plate system.
  Proofers fingerprinted to our Komori Printing Presses.
  Fuji Final Proofing System - Allows for proofing on PVC.


Conventional and UV cured offset lithography up to 24" x 36" maximum size on PVC core substrates from .007" to .029" thick. 2 to 6 color presses.

  Conventional and UV cured silk-screen printing up to 28" x 40" maximum size on plastic core and finished plastic substrates from .007" to .035" thick.
  Conventional and UV cured digital lithography up to 12" x 17" maximum size on PVC core substrates from .007" to .030" thick.


Automated High pressure heat lamination of vinyl and polyester substrates up to 9 ply to a maximum total finished thickness of .090".


Optically registered sheet cutting and card punching systems.
  Male-Female Punch Press.
  Automatic hole punching.
  Precision Punching and Scoring of Custom Card and Key tag configurations.


Optically registered flush laminated magnetic stripes. .330" and .500" width in 300 and 2750 oersted.
Hot Foil Roll applied magnetic stripes in widths from .125" to .600" in 300 to 4000 oersted.
Hologram application.
Signature panels.
  Hole and slot punching.
  Card labeling.
  Security Printing and Inks.
  RFID contactless cards.


High Resolution Ink jet and drop on demand (DOD) numbering, bar coding and personalization.
High speed in line magnetic stripe encoding, meets ANSI, ISO and ABA specifications.
Thermal imaged numbering, bar coding, and personalization.
Raised letter embossed numbering and personalization.
  Card scanning - 100% numerical accountability, Scanners check every card.
  ScanGuard™ Technology insures Exact Numerical Order, no duplicates, and every card in perfect order.
Standard box and bulk carton packaging.
  Shrink-wrap packaging.
  Bundling and kitting.
  Card banding/labeling for batch activation.
  Direct to store distribution.
Card scanning - Scanners check every card.
  Affixing in line with personalization.
  One - Stop Shop: cards, carriers, personalization, affixing and special packaging.
.030" Heavy Weight Credit Cards.
  ANSI, ISO and ABA standard, magnetic stripe cards.
  Gift Cards
  Loyalty Cards
  Prepaid Calling Cards
  Membership Cards
  The Green Line™ - The Environmental Choice in Plastic Cards™

Featuring:
   
CornCard USA™
AB RecycledCard™
  DUALKARD™
  The Photo Personalized Gift Card
  The CMounted Card™
  The Plannished Card
  Active Label® Card. (patented on-site card issuance system)
  Active Label Combo Card® (patented card and key tag or tags set)
  The RAC® Card (patented retail activation card for gift and phone)

  Shaped Cards for Gift and Promotional Opportunities.
  Digital Imaged Plastic Cards.
  Data, Access, and Identification Cards
  Dura 5™ and Dura7™ Extended Life Cards
  Scratch 'n' Sniff Card™
  MirrorCard™
  SecureScratchOff™
  Smart Cards (contact)
  RFID Cards (contactless)
  In stock Blank Cards
Macintosh and proprietary desktop publishing systems. Accept most media and application formats.
  Two Ink Jet Printers for Silk Screen films and overlays.
  Computer-to-plate system.
  Fuji Final Proofing System.
  Six color/four color, sheet-fed Komori computer controlled offset presses. Up to 12 color capacity including 4 and 6 color process. Automated functions include; plate loading, registration, color matching and control. In-line optional coating.
  Six-color, sheet-fed Hedeilberg computer controlled offset press. Up to 12 color capacity including 4 and 6 color process. In-line optional coating.
  Four-color, sheet-fed Komori computer controlled offset press. Up to 8 color capacity including 4 color process. Automated functions include; plate loading, registration, color matching and control. In-line optional coating.
  Sheet-fed Hewlett Packard Indigo Short Run Digital offset press. In-line optional coating.
  4 Sheet-fed Sakuri silk-screen presses. Up to 6 color per side capability including metallic, fluorescent, day-glo, and ultra-violet inks.
  Four 14 opening, large capacity automated Burkle laminating systems.
  One - 6 opening, large capacity Burkle Automated laminating system.
  16 sheet to card punching systems.
  7 Louda automated gathering and collating systems.
  One PCU automated gathering and collating system.
  3 Louda automated magnetic stripe application systems.
  3 Sheet Fed Magnetic Stripe Appliers.
  4 foil stamping and hologram application systems.
  5 high-speed DOD(Drop On Demand), labeling and in-line encoding machines.
  24 high speed thermal personalization systems.
  15 thermal personalization systems.
  2 automatic bundling machines.
  Optical card inspection machine.

  Spartanics Hi-speed full color Vision Inspection machine.
  3 card affixing machines.