Unique Method to Manufacture Paper Substrate Transaction Cards

摘要

An in-line process is provided for economical manufacture of attractive flat paper substrate transaction cards with or without an RFID chip embedded therein. In the user-friendly process, one or more continuous webs from roller paper are automatically fed and sequentially advanced through a series of operations and stations in a single pass

主权项

1: A method for manufacturing paper substrate transaction cards, comprising the steps of:
feeding at least one substantially continuous web of paper through a set of printing rollers at at least one print station; printing images in proximity to each other on the web at the print station; forming a card front and back comprising the front and back of a transaction card; applying an adhesive to at least part of the front and back of the transaction card at the glue station to provide adhesive-coated web sections; advancing the adhesive-coated web sections through a set of alignment rollers; aligning the adhesive-coated web sections comprising the front and back of the transaction cards with the alignment rollers; bonding the aligned adhesive-coating web sections comprising the front and back of the transaction card; advancing the aligned and bonded transaction card to a die cut station; and die cutting the aligned and bonded transaction card at the die cut station.