ID cards

Leading supplier of ID cards to the UK university market

Thames Technology is one of the leading ID card suppliers to UK universities. We produce a comprehensive range of ID card solutions tailored to meet diverse identification needs.

Whether for universities, corporations, or government entities, we offer various solutions from base cards for on-site personalisation to fully personalised cards featuring photo ID, UIDs, barcodes or QR codes. 

We are committed to providing high-quality, durable, and secure ID cards produced using advanced printing techniques including and incorporating the latest security features including:

• UV print
• Holograms
• Micro text
• Guilloche 

Top quality printing

Utilising advanced digital printing techniques, Thames Technology ensures superior print quality with resolutions up to 2,400 dpi, significantly higher than traditional desktop printers.

We use advanced sheet fed digital print, digital lithographic and screen technologies to manufacture cards with very high quality durable edge-to-edge print. We also offer card enhancements such as HiCo and LoCo magnetic stripes, signature panels and encoding.

Customisation and personalisation to meet your needs

We understand that each organisation has individual ID card requirements, and we offer extensive customisation options to meet those needs. Our customers can choose from a variety of card designs, materials, and security features to create ID cards that align with their brand and functional needs. We offer creative design services, allowing organisations to incorporate their logos, colour schemes, and other branding elements into the ID card design.

We use our advanced digital process to individually personalise cards with photographs and data while in sheet form during manufacture. This enables us to produce very high quality and durable edge to edge personalised print, while overcoming the speed, print quality and consumable cost issues associated with traditional dye-sublimation and re-transfer processes.

Personalisation that lasts

The personalisation sits under the card’s main laminate layers so it cannot be worn off which is important for photos and barcodes. By digitally printing cards in sheet form means that the printed layers are placed below the protective outer surface layers during lamination. This gives excellent durability compared to desktop printing.

Contact and contactless smartcards

We manufacture proximity contactless cards by including an inner core containing chips and antennae during the lamination process. We are able to supply many types of contactless smartcard including MIFARE Classic® and MIFARE® DESFire® EV1 and EV2.

We also manufacture contact chip cards using an automated robotic process which mills blank or pre-printed cards and installs a surface contact chip. A variety of chips can be used including EPROM programmable memory chips and microprocessor chips such as JCOP. This process can also be used to chip contactless smartcards creating hybrid cards.

We are able to programme and encode smartcards to our customers specifications. All cards can be supplied with accessories such as lanyards, yo-yos, holders and clips.