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Hospitality

RFID / NFC key cardsWooden key cardsMagnetic stripe cardsSleeves and door hangersStaff and resort wristbandsAll about hospitality →

Retail and loyalty

Gift cardsMembership cardsPVC and recycled PVCSpecial shape cardsNFC review cardsAll about retail and loyalty →

Access control

Proximity cardsSecurity ID cardsKey fobsRFID / NFC cardsRFID blocking cardsAll about access control →

Clubs and associations

Membership cardsSilicone wristbandsKey fobsWoven lanyardsAll about clubs →

Events and festivals

Tyvek wristbandsFabric wristbandsEvent badgesLanyardsRFID paper ticketsAll about events →
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Cards and key fobsRFID / NFC cardsPVC and recycled PVCWooden cardsSpecial shape cardsMagnetic stripe cardsProximity cardsRFID blocking cardsKey fobs
Cards by useGift cardsMembership cardsSecurity ID cardsCustom NFC cardsNFC business cardsNFC review cardsPersonalisation
Badges and lanyardsSlim event badgeWide access passLarge conference badgeWoven lanyardsTubular lanyardsFlat polyester lanyardsSleeves and accessories
Labels and ticketsRFID hang tagsRFID and NFC labelsRFID laundry tagsRFID paper ticketsParking tickets
WristbandsTyvek wristbandsVinyl wristbandsFabric wristbandsStretch wristbandsEco fabric wristbandsSilicone watch wristbandsAll wristbands
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HospitalityRFID / NFC key cardsWooden key cardsMagnetic stripe cardsSleeves, door hangers and signageStaff and resort wristbandsAll about hospitality
Retail and loyaltyGift cardsMembership cardsPVC and recycled PVCSpecial shape cardsNFC review cardsAll about retail and loyalty
Access controlProximity cardsSecurity ID cardsKey fobsRFID / NFC cardsRFID blocking cardsAll about access control
Clubs and associationsMembership cardsSilicone wristbandsKey fobsWoven lanyardsAll about clubs and associations
Events and festivalsTyvek wristbandsFabric wristbandsEvent badgesLanyardsRFID paper ticketsAll about events and festivals
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Capabilities

What we can put on a card

Kaway Group adds numbering, variable data, chip encoding, security features and finishes at the plant in Dongguan, on the same run that prints the card.

Every card different, on one run

Applied in the artwork pass, so fifty thousand different cards are still one production run.

Three white cards fanned out, each printed with a different sequential number
Gift · loyalty · membership

Sequential numbering

Numbers printed on every card, running in sequence or taken from a list you supply. They go down in the same pass as the artwork, so numbering is part of the print run rather than a separate job afterwards.

Two dark cards, one printed with a barcode and one with a QR code
Loyalty · membership · access

Barcodes and QR codes

Printed on each card in the symbology your system reads, linear or 2D, with module width and quiet zone set to your scanner. The same link can go on a compatible NFC chip as an NDEF URL.

Finished contactless cards being encoded, with a stack of cards beside the encoder
Hotel keys · access control

Chip encoding

UID reading, sectors and blocks, and hotel keys for VingCard, SALTO, dormakaba, Onity and Saflok, encoded at the plant where the chip, the system's requirements and its authorisation allow it.

White card seen from the back with a black magnetic stripe running across it
PVC cards only

Magnetic stripe

HiCo or LoCo, laminated into the body rather than stuck on afterwards, so the stripe cannot lift at the edge. Encoded here on the tracks your system uses. PVC only, and it cannot go on wood.

Dark card with a white signature panel signed in blue ballpoint, with a pen alongside
Gift · membership · ID

Signature panel

A coated white area that takes ballpoint and pencil without smearing or wiping off. Printed as part of the card back, so it sits flush with the surface and does not catch when the card goes through a reader.

Scratch panel on a white card partly scratched away, revealing the code printed underneath
Gift cards · PIN codes

Scratch panel

An opaque layer over a printed code, taken off with a coin. Used on gift cards for PIN delivery and activation codes, where the card has to prove that nobody read it before the holder did.

Hard to copy, quick to check

Five features that make a copy costly to produce and quick to spot. They combine on one card.

White card under ultraviolet light revealing a hidden printed pattern
Checked under a UV lamp

UV ink

Ink that is invisible in daylight and shows only under a UV lamp. A copier and a phone camera both see nothing, so the mark cannot be reproduced from a photograph of the card.

Loupe resting on a card, magnifying a line of microtext into legible digits
Checked with a loupe

Microtext

Text printed small enough to need a loupe. It survives the press but not a scanner, so on any copy it degrades into a grey line, which makes the forgery obvious to anyone who knows where to look.

Close-up of a fine blue guilloche line pattern printed on a white card
Breaks up on any copy

Guilloche

The fine interlaced line work used on banknotes, built into the artwork rather than added on top. Scanning it and printing it again breaks the pattern into moire, so the copy announces itself.

Grey card with a rectangular holographic patch showing concentric rings
Checked by eye, no tools

Hologram

A metallised patch or a full laminate that shifts as the card tilts. It is checked by eye in a second, with no lamp and no loupe, which is what makes it the practical one at a busy desk.

Black card with concentric arcs hot stamped in gold foil
Checked by touch and light

Hot stamping

Metallic foil pressed into the surface with heat and a die, not printed on top of it. No office printer produces it, and the die itself is a barrier to anyone trying to copy the card.

Shape, surface and edge

Cut, finished and textured on the same line as the printing: one order, one approval.

Card sheet with three shapes partly broken out along their micro tabs
PVC · recycled PVC · wood

Custom die-cutting

Any outline up to 200 mm on the longest edge, cut from tooling held at the plant. Break-apart cards, key tags and shapes that never started from CR80 are cut on the same machine as a standard card.

Clear transparent card overlapping a black card, which shows through it
Clear and part-clear PVC

Transparent

Clear or part-clear bodies, with the artwork built around the window rather than laid over it. The chip and the antenna have to be positioned into that layout, so this is the finish to send artwork for early.

Two grey cards side by side comparing a matte and a glossy surface
PVC and recycled PVC

Matte and frosted

A surface that kills glare under reception lighting and does not hold fingerprints. It also wears better than gloss, which is what matters on a card handled several times a day for a year.

Matte black card with a diagonal band of high gloss spot varnish
Matte PVC cards

Spot UV and gloss varnish

Gloss laid on one element of a matte card, a logo or a band, so it catches the light while everything around it stays flat. It can also run across the whole face where the artwork wants shine.

White card with a number in raised embossed characters catching the light
PVC cards

Embossing

Raised characters pressed through the body from behind, read by a finger as much as by an eye. Used where a number has to stay legible with no reader and no power behind it.

Wooden card with a number laser engraved into the surface, the grain visible through the burnt characters
Wood · bamboo · ABS fobs

Laser engraving

A mark cut into the surface rather than printed on it, so it cannot rub off. Used on wood and bamboo, where the burn opens the grain, and on ABS key fobs, where a printed mark would wear away.

Before you order

A blank white card resting on a printed dieline with slot and corner measurements
Ordering guide
Specifying an order

What a factory needs to quote, and the five artwork mistakes that cause a reprint.

Read the guide →
A shrink-wrapped stack of blank white cards with a label, beside a single loose card
Encoding guide
Blank or pre-encoded

The three routes from blank plastic to a working credential, and who holds the keys.

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Three translucent card inlays showing different RFID antenna coil patterns
Chip guide
Choosing the chip

Classic, Ultralight and DESFire answer the same reader and are not interchangeable.

Read the guide →

More on this

Security features on a cardVariable data and numberingPrinting methods and finishesHow plastic and RFID cards are made

Start with a sample.

Ask for a free sample in your material and chip.

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Checked before it is made
We adapt your artwork and logo for print, say what would fail on press and send the corrected file back. Free, no obligation.
One run, not three steps
Printing, personalisation, encoding, a 100% chip read test and packing in boxes with your logo printed in black, all at one plant.
A sample in the real thing
Ask for a free sample in the material and finish you specified, so a security feature can be judged in the hand.