Card Personalisation

Bring your plastic cards to life with fully customisable card personalisation options from CCSI. Whether you’re issuing staff ID cards, membership cards, loyalty cards or access passes, our personalisation techniques ensure every card carries the right data, design and function - tailored to your brand and system.

What Can Be Personalised?

We offer a full range of card personalisation features to make each card unique, including:

• Individual names, ID numbers, headshot, expiry date
• Variable text, colours, fonts and layout
• Barcodes, QR codes and signature panels
• Encoding of magnetic stripes or chips
• Embossing (raised characters like bank cards)

All printed elements can be incorporated onto the front or back of your PVC cards and customised to match your brand colours, style and database requirements.

4 Personalisation Methods We Offer

 1. Digital Printing

A fast, cost-effective method for adding numbers or variable text to either side of a card. Ideal for numbering and data, such as:

• Variable text, barcodes, designs, logos or serial numbers
• Photos & QR Codes
• Produced in bulk and held as un-personalised card stock
• Multiple print variants per order

2. Thermal Printing

This method offers full flexibility and high-quality results for personalising cards with more visual impact. Thermal printing allows you to add:

• Variable text, barcodes, designs, logos or serial numbers
• Photos & QR Codes
• Overprinted foil finishes
• Small to medium orders produced frequently

This technique is ideal for ID cards, gift cards, VIP passes, or any application where aesthetics and data accuracy matter. Thermal printing also supports real-time encoding during the process for:

•  Magnetic stripe cards (Hi-Co, Lo-Co)
• Chip cards (Smart cards, NFC, RFID, etc.)

3. Embossing and Encoding

Enhance card authenticity and security with embossed data - the raised characters seen on traditional bank cards. This feature is particularly effective for:

• Financial, membership and high-security access cards
• Making data tamper-resistant
• Creating a premium, tactile feel

We also offer secure encoding, where personal data is encrypted and written directly to a magnetic stripe or chip, allowing the card to be uniquely identified by your systems.

4. Barcoding

Add a scannable barcode to your card for fast tracking, database integration and customer activity monitoring. Our barcoding services allow for:

• Unique codes on the front or back
• Integration with POS systems, CRM software or access control
• Customisation to your database structure

Barcodes are perfect for loyalty schemes, memberships, check-ins or access management.

Do You Need Help Choosing the Right Personalisation Method?

Whether you're managing thousands of cards or a small batch, we’ll help you choose the right method based on your design, functionality and budget. Our team can guide you through each option and how it connects to your existing systems.