Personalisation Services

Burall InfoSmart offer comprehensive bureau services for personalising cards and can even provide stand-alone systems for our customers to personalise their own cards. The requirement to securely handle large amounts of personal data is often overlooked on smart-card schemes but we have the experience, equipment and systems to help you meet this requirement with confidence.

We provide photo-ID cards for many clubs, companies, universities and transport authorities throughout the UK. Whether the cards are contact cards, contactless or just plain white plastic, we offer the data-entry, database-management, de-duplicating, and end-to-end fulfilment services for ensuring each card gets printed with the correct photo, data, barcode or whatever is on the design. We offer card layout and design services and can advise on best practice to help you optimise your own designs. Each individual card is tracked through our bureau so we can advise, at any time, whether the data is received and validated, or whether any card is printed, encoded, mounted, or posted.

Often this data is highly confidential so our bureau operates in its own secure area and runs independent servers which are isolated from our main computer network. Only authorised personnel are allowed to enter this area when jobs are running and, in the most sensitive of cases, such as when we handle personal data of school children, only those personnel who have been positively vetted by the criminal records bureau are allowed to work on the job.

Cards are printed on our high-resolution dye-sublimation printers and the finished cards can be either sent in bulk or mounted onto personalised cover letters for despatch directly to the card-holders. This system is used for long runs of cards such as during the annual intake of students each October to universities or for the launch of new regional transport or citizen card schemes.

However, to maintain flexibility, our customers often want the ability to produce small numbers of cards themselves to cope with lost cards or new entrants. In this case, we can provide stand-alone photo-ID stations such as the Burall PersoniQ range, including camera, PC, printer, encoding station and blank card stock, specific to your needs.