Materials
Our materials, including sustainably sourced wood and high-quality paper for cards, proudly meet FSC and RoHS standards, ensuring eco-friendly and responsible production.
Smart Innovation transforms the untapped potential of Chinese wood into superior products. Sourced from the pristine Northeast forests of China, our wood materials are processed using rigorous sterilization and pest control techniques. The result is a quality that frequently surpasses international benchmarks.
Our strategic local sourcing is more than just an industry innovation. It ensures superb quality while yielding substantial cost benefits. By bypassing the heavy expenses of foreign imports, we deliver premium products at impressively competitive prices.
Print & Lamination
Smart Innovation ensures an astonishing color accuracy of over 90%, reflecting the excellence of materials and the expertise of our dedicated team. With a track record of satisfying over 500 clients worldwide, our repeat orders boast an impressive 90% color precision rate. By streamlining our production process, we’ve achieved greater stability and cost-effectiveness. Our state-of-the-art printing presses and lamination systems are capable of handling jobs of all sizes, from a handful of prototypes to production runs of millions of pieces. Across our three production facilities, you will find high-speed litho UV offset, dynamic HP digital printing, silkscreen printing, waterless surface-printing, specialized card prototyping, and flatbed printing. Our in-house capability for the best-in-class cast-and-cure reflective print and in-house high-speed inline cold foil printing are unmatched.
90%+ color accuracy
90%+ color match accuracy between printed colors and original design specifications, ensuring your brand’s visual integrity.
Trust from 500+ clients
A robust global clientele of over 500 businesses worldwide, showcasing our extensive reach and reliability in various industries.
95%+ color precision rate
An impressive 95%+ rate of color consistency on repeat orders, maintaining uniformity and quality across all your branded materials.
10+ available crafts
A selection of more than 10 techniques, including CMYK, Pantone, metallic, silkscreen, gloss UV, hot foil, barcode, and QR code, to meet diverse branding needs.
Custom Shapes
We pride ourselves on our ability to craft cards in a variety of shapes to meet the unique needs of our clients. Our capabilities include both automated and manual modeling processes, allowing for a broad spectrum of custom shapes. Whether you need a standard card shape or something more unique, we invite you to reach out to us to explore the possibilities:
Versatile Die-Cutting
Our state-of-the-art die-cutting platform enables us to push the boundaries of card shapes, ensuring that we can bring your distinctive designs to life with precision and creativity.
Custom Shapes for Various Needs
Beyond traditional cards, our expertise extends to marketing and advertising products, door hangers, RFID accessories, and more, all customizable to your specifications.
Fobs, Tags, and Wristbands
Our flexible die-cutting platform also supports the creation of RFID and non-RFID fobs, tags, and wristbands, offering creative combinations for loyalty programs, access control systems, inventory systems, and more.
For clients seeking a specific shape or design, our team is ready to discuss your requirements and confirm the availability of your desired shape. At Smart Innovation, flexibility and creativity are at the core of what we do, ensuring we meet and exceed your expectations.
Personalization
We manage every detail, from barcodes, PIN codes, and scratch-off panels to customized names, numbers, and data. By guaranteeing your cards function flawlessly, we safeguard your brand’s reputation. Rest assured, our advanced testing and compliance measures uphold your unique standards, ensuring reliability.
Additionally, our stringent privacy measures and robust security protocols ensure your customer data remains secure. As your comprehensive provider for card marketing solutions, we present various fulfillment services tailored to your business needs.
High-coercivity (hi-co) and low-coercivity (lo-co) magnetic stripes are used to store data by modifying the magnetism of tiny iron-based magnetic particles on a band of magnetic material. Hi-co magnetic stripes are more resistant to magnetic interference and physical wear, making them more durable and secure. Hi-co magnetic stripes are encoded with a stronger magnetic field of 2750 Oersted (Oe) or more, while lo-co magnetic stripes are encoded at a low intensity magnetic field of 300 Oe. A magnetic stripe card reader can read either type of magnetic stripe.
Lo-co magnetic stripes are suited for short-term or less critical applications, whereas hi-co magnetic stripes are preferred for long-term, frequent use and where security is more critical. Credit cards, bank ATM cards, library cards, and employee ID cards usually use hi-co technology. Lo-co cards are usually used for hotel room keys, gift cards, loyalty cards, membership cards, and temporary access cards.
Barcodes consist of wide and narrow stripes that can be scanned. There are various barcode formats, such as Code 128, Code 39, EAN Code, ITF. Over time, two-dimensional (2D) variants like QR codes and Data Matrix codes have been developed. When scanned, for example, at a retail checkout, the barcode can quickly retrieve the item’s information in the POS system. We integrate barcodes into various cards including membership cards, gift cards, loyalty cards, RFID cards, wooden cards, paper cards, and key tags.
Serial number: We can sequentially generate numbers, beginning from any start number you provide.
Random number: Our manufacturing process can produce barcode cards from a simple spreadsheet (like Excel or CSV), using the specific numbers you supply.
Additionally, we offer the option to display or hide the numerical values beneath the barcodes. For added security, we can also fully encode the barcode while concealing the final digit in the displayed number below, ensuring confidentiality.
Signature panels enable customers to write their signatures directly onto the card’s surface. These panels can be tailored in size you required, whether you need a contemporary and informal aesthetic or a more traditional appearance. Based on your needs, we can produce one or more panels or areas, in transparent or white colors.
A scratch-off panel is a protective coating applied to certain areas of cards, such as prepaid cards, phone cards, promotional cards, and now gift cards and loyalty cards, concealing information underneath. They protect sensitive information, such as a PIN code or a prize amount, ensuring it remains confidential until the rightful owner decides to reveal it. Scratch-off panels add an interactive element to the user experience, creating a sense of anticipation and engagement.