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Everything around the card

Card sleeves, holders, lanyards, envelopes, carriers, door hangers, signage and custom wooden pieces. These are add-ons rather than a separate line of business. Most of them arrive on a card, fob or wristband order, because every one of them is made to fit the credential it goes with.

Families
Six, all produced in our own plant
Artwork
Your own, on all of them
Ordering
Usually added to a card, fob or wristband order
Fit
Made to the card or badge you are using
What we need first
The credential, or its exact dimensions
Minimum order
No fixed minimum. Quoted with the item

What are they used for?

Hotel groups and resorts

The key is one item in a set. The carrier it is handed over in, the door hanger that goes with it and the signage in the corridor can all be printed from the same artwork, in the same plant, on the same order. Approve the artwork once and it applies across the set.

Hospitality →

Access and entry

Badges need holders and lanyards, and both have to fit the badge rather than approximately fit it. Specifying them with the credential is the only way to be sure the sleeve fits the card that turns up, particularly where the card is not a standard CR80.

Access control and security →

Membership and loyalty

A membership card that arrives in a printed carrier reads as a different product from the same card in an envelope, and it costs less to change than the card does. Artwork is approved once and applies across everything in the order.

Retail and loyalty →

What is in the range

Six families, one order

Six families of add-on, all made in the plant that already makes the credential. None of them is a separate project. They are the rest of what a property or a programme has to buy anyway, and they are quoted on the same sheet as the cards.

Card sleeves and holders
Protects the card

The card sleeve is the add-on most card orders end up needing, and the one most often remembered too late. Sleeves and holders for cards and badges, printed with your own artwork or supplied plain, made to the format of the card they hold. It is why we ask for the card before the artwork.

Available
PrintedPlain
Lanyards
Carries the badge

Printed lanyards for badges and passes, specified alongside the credential they carry rather than after it, so the fitting matches the slot in the badge.

Available
PrintedTo your colours
Envelopes and carriers
Presents the card

The envelope or folded carrier the card arrives in, printed with your own artwork. It is the first thing a guest or a member sees, and it is usually the last thing anybody specifies.

Available
EnvelopeFolded carrierPrinted
Door hangers
Goes on the door

Printed door hangers for hotel rooms and resort suites, produced in the same plant and on the same order as the keys they sit beside.

Available
PrintedBoth faces
Signage
Goes on the wall

Custom printed signage for properties, produced to your own artwork and specification rather than picked from a range.

Available
PrintedTo your specification
Custom wooden pieces
Made to order

Bespoke items in wood, cut in the same plant that cuts our wood cards. If you have drawn it and it is wood, send us the drawing and we will tell you whether we can make it.

Available
To your drawingLaser engraved

Why order them with the credential?

Because every item on this page is made to fit something. Ordering the fit and the thing it fits separately is how sleeves end up not fitting cards.

One specification
The sleeve is made to the card, the lanyard to the badge, the carrier to both
One order
Credential and accessories on the same order, produced in the same plant
One approval
Artwork approved once, applied across everything in the order
What comes first
The credential. It is where the specification for everything else starts

What should you send us?

Four things, and the first one matters more than the other three put together.

The card or badge
A physical sample if you have one, or its exact dimensions
Your artwork
Print-ready files for anything printed, vector files for anything cut or engraved
The quantity
Approximate is enough to start
The date
Approximate is enough to start

Will it fit your card?

Send us the card or badge, or its exact dimensions. We confirm the fit before you order, rather than after a delivery arrives that does not.

What can we confirm?

The format you are working to, and whether a sleeve, holder or carrier is made to it. A physical sample settles it faster than a measurement does.

Where are the limits?

A special shape card needs its holder made to the same outline, so those two have to be specified together. Send the outline once and it covers both.

What do we recommend?

Put the accessory on the same order as the credential, in one specification. It is the only way to be certain the sleeve fits the card that actually turns up.

The factory

10M

Cards a month

1,300

Plant floor in Dongguan

87

People in the plant

15+

Years making cards at this plant

What do we need from you?

01

The credential

A physical card or badge if you have one, or its exact dimensions. Everything on this page is made to fit something, and this is the something.

02

Which items

Sleeves, lanyards, carriers, door hangers, signage, wooden pieces, or any combination. Tell us the set rather than one item at a time, because they are quoted together.

03

Your artwork

Print-ready files for anything printed, vector files for anything cut or engraved. One set of artwork usually covers the whole order.

04

The quantity and the date

Approximate figures are enough to start. They help us recommend the right production setup and confirm the best option for your order.

Questions we hear the most

Can we order accessories without ordering cards?

Yes, although most of these are made to fit a credential, so we will ask which one. Send the card or badge you already use, or its exact dimensions, and we work from that. The more common route is the other way round: a card order that adds sleeves, lanyards or carriers to the same sheet.

Do you print our own artwork on them?

Yes, on all six families. Send print-ready files for anything printed and vector files for anything cut or engraved. One approved set of artwork usually covers the whole order.

Will a sleeve fit a special shape card?

Only if it is made to the same outline, so the card and the sleeve are specified together rather than one after the other. Send the outline once and it covers both.

What is the minimum order?

There is no fixed minimum across the range. These are six different products and the sensible quantity is different for each one, so it is quoted with the item rather than set in advance. Most of them are added to a card, fob or wristband order, and the quantity follows that order rather than standing on its own.

Are the wooden accessories FSC certified?

No. Our FSC Chain of Custody certification, licence FSC-C195226, covers wood and bamboo cards. It does not extend to accessories, and we would rather say so than let a certificate be read wider than it goes.

Can everything go on one order?

Yes. Credential and accessories on the same order, produced in the same plant, against one set of approved artwork. It is also the only way to be sure the artwork on the carrier matches the artwork on the card.

Tell us what the card needs around it.

One order, one plant
Credential and accessories quoted together and produced together, against one set of approved artwork.
A reply within 24 hours
We answer the same day your request arrives, and always within 24 hours.
The fit checked first
We confirm the accessory against the credential it has to fit before you order, and we tell you when the two do not go together.