Akme Cards offers pressure sensitive magnetic stripes in Low
Coercivity (LoCo) or High Coercivity (HiCo) formats with the stripes
either 3/8” or 1/2" width. These magnetic stripes are
manufactured to ISO specifications.
LoCo is at 300 Oerstead which is less expensive and is used for
prepaid phone cards and loyalty cards. HiCo is at 2750 Oerstead,
which allows many swipes, can be rewritten, and has a stronger
magnetic field of resistance is mainly used for debit and credit
cards.
Magnetic stripes can be used with many different product applications.
The phone card industry has a unique use for magnetic stripes.
Options
and Finishing
• Complete card design services availability or customer provides
computer ready art work.
• Different Thickness and Size with rounded corners.
• Standard size of rectangular 2 1/8 inch x 3 3/8 inch with
rounded corners.
• Full color (4 color process – CMYK) specification both
sides.
• Different personalization of text, name, PIN numbers , SERIAL
numbers.
• Signature and Write on panels.
• Magnetic Stripe encoding.
• Embossing ( Gold or Silver or Black tipping )
• Scratch off panel for various promotions
• Bar coding in multiple formats
• Gold and Silver cards with metallic background