Magnetic Strip
Craft Introduction
What is magnetic strip?
It is the magnetic carrier to record character and digital information for identification or other purposes. When you slide it over the magnetic strip card reader, that card reader can read or write data on it. As for its width, there are 12.7 mm and 8.4 mm.
As the technology develops, it has been widely applied to various cards including PVC cards, metal cards, wood cards, and paper cards, and brought great convenience to our daily lives. Generally speaking, it can be divided into the following types:
LoCo refers to the low coercivity, while HiCo means high coercivity. Coercivity, a standard to measure the ability of a ferromagnetic material to withstand an external magnetic field without becoming demagnetized. Low coercivity means low resistance from the external magnetic field, while high coercivicy means high resistance from the external magnetic field.
Magnetic Stripe Card Making Details
- LoCo Magstripe – paint the magstripe on the card.
- HiCo Magstripe – stick the magstripe to the card with the magnetic mounting machine.
Attention Please
- Don’t put the magnetic strips cards together with mobile phones, metal keys, or other magnetic objects, in case that these cards get demagnetized.
- Don’t scratch the magstripe on the card with sharp objects to get it damaged manually.
Crafts Effect
- It touches raised and obvious except when it is on the PVC card.
- It can be made into various colors.
- It is not so easy to get faded away or worn out.
LoCo Magnetic Stripe
To Other Choice: HiCo Magnetic Stripe
Applied to cards: PVC card, metal card, wood card, paper card
What do you need to prepare?
- Card type confirmation.
- Design file at .ai/ .pdf/ .psd/ .eps/ .jpeg (jpg)/ .tiff. format, the minimum resolution at 300dpi.
- Color confirmation including the CMYK value or Pantone color No. Or you can directly send us samples if you don’t know the exact color, and we would help you find the color which can best match the sample color.,
- Color No.: CMYK value, Pantone color number, send samples directly to us to match the color.
LoCo magnetic stripes don’t have such strong resistance against the external magnetic field, and are not so durable as HiCo magnetic stripes. Therefore, they are more widely applied to membership cards which generally don’t have such high demand for the magnetic.
Example Exhibition
HiCo Magnetic Stripe
To Other Choice: LoCo Magnetic Stripe
Craft Introduction
Applied to cards: PVC card, metal card, wood card, paper card
What do you need to prepare?
- Card type confirmation.
- Design file at .ai/ .pdf/ .psd/ .eps/ .jpeg (jpg)/ .tiff. format, the minimum resolution at 300dpi.
- Color confirmation including the CMYK value or Pantone color No. Or you can directly send us samples if you don’t know the exact color, and we would help you find the color which can best match the sample color.,
- Color No.: CMYK value, Pantone color number, send samples directly to us to match the color.
HiCo magnetic stripes can better prevent themselves from the affect of external magnetic field, and not easy to get demagnetized, or lose their basic functions( eg. hard to read and write data on them, and cause difficulties for the normal payment or recognition), so they are more widely applied to membership cards, bank cards, payment cards…
Example Exhibition
Note:
Generally speaking, each magstripe has 3 tracks:
- The 1st one can be recorded the numbers (0-9) and letters (A-Z) and some symbols (such as brackets, separators, etc.);
- The 2nd and 3rd ones can be recorded the numbers (0-9).
- The data on the 1st and 2nd ones can just be read by the magnetic stripe card reader.
- The data on the 3rd one can be both read and rewritten.
By the way, the LoCo magstripe can just store the data on the 2nd track, while the HiCo magstripe can store the data on all the 3 tracks (you can also choose to store data on just 2 tracks among them.)
Besides, the narrow magstripe at 8.4 mm width only has the first 2 tracks but doesn’t have the 3rd track,which means it doesn’t have the rewritten function. But it can also be made into both the LoCo magstripe and the HiCo magstripe.
