Gift Card Printing

Prevent fraud and protect customers with secure gift cards.

Taylor is a full-service custom gift card manufacturer with end-to end solutions for you to increase revenue and keep customers safe from scams with industry-leading fraud prevention technology and state-of-the-art security features.

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Gift Card Security and Data Management

Taylor’s industry-leading data security technology protects your brand during the card
production process all the way through use by the recipient. Our data processing infrastructure
has the scalability to support the largest and most complex card programs.

Patented Security Features

Our latest gift card security solution has been granted a patent for both our plastic and more sustainable options.

Enhanced Tamper Resistance

Taylor’s latest security and fraud prevention measures include packs that cannot be opened with heat or with force, such as razor blades or knives. They are also designed to alert the user to any and all kinds of tampering.

Secure Gift Card Printing and Packaging

There a variety of options to support your data requirements, including imaged barcodes, encoded magnetic stripes and in-line variable data.

Stripe encoders and readers
Scratch-off applicators
Barcode printers and readers
In-line camera and OCR readers

Combat Gift Card Draining

Maryland recently became the first state in the nation to pass a law to thwart a scam, known as gift card draining, with the Gift Card Scams Prevention Act of 2024.

If you’re in Maryland and looking to print gift cards, you can be sure Taylor’s gift card security solutions will keep you in compliance and help prevent gift card draining.

Gift Card Packaging

Protect and market your cards with custom specialty packaging
solutions for open- and closed-loop cards.

Secure Packs

Secure packs are engineered to stop fraud before it occurs with security features such as secure labels, inner security slits, perforated tear strips and barcode windows for scan activations.

Secure Labels

Secure gift card labels include PIN labels such as silver scratch-offs, scratch/peel options, two-tab peel-off labels, two-step activation barcodes and Chameleon® tamper-evident labels.

Card Wraps

Card wraps provide additional coverage of the card itself. Contained in a two- or three-panel layout and sealed, card wraps give you greater surface area for your brand design.

Card on Carrier

The card-on-carrier approach is a classic choice. It’s used for a wide array of gift cards, and it’s a cost-effective and compact solution for display at the point of sale or in a third-party mall.

More Sustainable Gift Cards

It’s no secret that gift cards carry an environmental stigma. Most of them aren’t recyclable. Plastic gift cards wind up in landfills after they’ve been used and turn into long-term pollution risks.

Taylor was one of the first enterprise-grade gift card manufacturers to make the switch from plastic to more sustainable and recyclable substrates.

We’ve spent the better part of the past decade perfecting the performance of these more eco-friendly gift card programs.

We have produced 2.6 billion paper cards to date - and growing
every day.

Paper Gift Cards

We believe you can enhance sustainability without compromising your brand
identity. We partner with paper manufacturers to produce paper gift card
substrates made from varying degrees of post-consumer waste.

More Eco-Friendly Substrates

Making Gift Cards More Sustainable

Paper can be surface printed, coated and embellished, and thick paper stock can mimic the look and feel of plastic, but without the waste that plastic generates.

We offer a wide range of paper and other more sustainable substrates, including FSC-certified stock (FSC®-C007066), that make up the largest selection in the gift card printing industry.

Monadnock Envi Card
Neenah ImageMax Gloss
Westrock Tango Card

Recycled gift card finishes include:

Matte
Satin
Gloss

Responsible Gift Card Printing

We research every component of your gift cards to make sure we give you the best alternative materials alongside enhancements and embellishments that don’t affect the recyclability of the card. We’ve also instituted water-soluble glues and inks to further reduce the environmental impact of the card manufacturing process.

Taylor has engineered 15 different enhancements that won’t affect the recyclability of your gift cards, including:

Scents & Fragrances
UV Inks & Coatings
Soft-Touch Texture
Cast & Cure
Foil & Glitter
Embossing/Debossing
Glow-in-the-Dark
Scratch-Off Options

More Sustainable Packaging

Our card packaging solutions are designed to remove as much plastic and other forms of waste as possible.

Everything from the materials and adhesives to the number of cards per pack are decided upon based on what can bring a higher degree of sustainability.

One of the most popular and promising packaging options is blisterless packaging.

All cards and carriers are made from paper
Multipacks can hold three to five cards

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See how you can make your gift card program more eco-friendly.

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Recyclable Gift Cards

Taylor Helps Best Buy Make Gift Cards 100% Recyclable

After several starts and stops with recycling programs and recycled plastic, Best Buy partnered with Taylor to create a reliable and fully recyclable gift card program.

In just the first year of use, Best Buy’s recyclable cards prevented more than 70 tons of plastic from going into landfills.

Customers praised the more eco-friendly alternative to traditional plastic gift cards.

Best Buy’s marketing team was impressed with the finishes and embellishments made possible by the paper substrate.

Customized Gift Cards

Taylor offers end-to-end solutions for your gift card
programs, allowing you to customize every detail.
From materials to finishes, we can help you perfectly
represent your brand.

Custom Gift Card Printing, Packaging and Fulfillment

Taylor provides turnkey gift card printing, packaging and order fulfillment all at a single facility. This enables us to ship your gift cards directly to you without stops at multiple destinations along the way.

Paper Gift Card Printing

Our paper substrates can be surface printed, coated and embellished. The result is paper cards that combine the look, feel and performance of their plastic predecessors with the more environmentally friendly attributes and recyclability of paper.

Plastic Gift Card Printing

Our cost-effective plastic options are ideal for surface printing and work extremely well with laminates and embellishments. They can serve as the foundation for any type of single or multi-use card.

Gift Card Finishes and Embellishments

Choose from an extensive suite of treatments and enhancements that best represent
your brand and help you stand out in the marketplace.

Custom Card Shape

Embossing/Debossing

Foil

Glitter

Glow-in-the-Dark Ink

Metallic Ink

Pearl Ink

Motion Lenticular

Raised-Surface Silkscreen

Scented Surfaces

Scratch-Off Options

Soft Touch Surfaces

Spot Gloss/Matte

Water Reveal

Writable Surfaces

Gift Card Coatings

Coatings applied at press finish will protect your printed plastic or paper card. Any card that has data imaged onto it requires a stain coating for proper adhesion.

Matte
Satin
Gloss

Gift Card Laminates

Laminating plastic products enhances durability, and laminates can be mixed and matched on the front and back of your cards to get your desired effect.

Any surface that will have data imaged onto it requires a satin or gloss finish. For cards with magnetic stripes, lamination is required to comply with ISO standards.

Matte
Satin
Gloss

Gift Card Fulfillment

Taylor’s gift card fulfillment services feature a nationwide distribution network in the U.S., with additional facilities in North America and England. We make sure your cards arrive on time, every time.

B2B Bulk Fulfillment

Bulk ordering saves your business money and enables you to efficiently deliver gift cards to consumers, employees and clients.

B2C Fulfillment

Enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty with 1:1 fulfillment through direct-to-consumer promotions or ongoing gift card programs.

Web-Based Platform

Card ordering is made easy with your custom online platform. Manage inventory and track replenishment orders.

Store Replenishment

Ensure you never run out of cards with online storage and inventory controls, store profiling tools and logistics analyses.

Direct Mail

Reach more consumers through 1:1 fulfillment by incorporating gift cards into your direct mail campaigns.

File Fulfillment

Our prepress teams verify all design elements and information are properly arranged so cards are printed accurately.

Card Affixing

Protect your cards and gain branding and messaging opportunities by attaching them to custom-printed carriers.

Inserting and Mailing

Reduce mailing costs and increase the ROI of your mailing campaigns with card carriers optimized for direct mail.

Gift Card Retail Benefits

Convert and retain customers
Drive incremental visits and sales
Heighten brand exposure
Increase product or initiative awareness
Inspire new consumer engagement
Keep funds internal
Reduce returns
Simplify promotional giveaways

Gift Card Consumer Benefits

Easy to find and gift
Enables the gift of travel, events and customizable items
More personal than gifting cash
No fees, no expiration, no hassle
Personalized and branded gift cards can be fun and engaging
Share a brand
Share an in-store experience
Ultimate flexibility in choosing your own gift

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