Unique Method to Simultaneously Manufacture Paper Substrate Transaction Card and Display Carrier

摘要

An in-line process is provided for economical and concurrent manufacture of attractive flat paper substrate transaction cards and display carriers 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 to simultaneously produce the flat paper substrate transaction cards and display carriers.

主权项

1: A method for manufacturing paper substrate transaction cards and display carriers, comprising the steps of:
feeding at least one substantially continuous web of paper through a set of printing rollers 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 which also may contain the display carrier; 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 card 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 and accompanying display carrier to a die cut station; and die cutting the aligned and bonded transaction card and display carrier at the die cut station.