Glossary of Commonly Used Words
| Card Specs | Conforms to CR-80, ISO 7810-16 standards for card size & thickness |
| Signature Panel | Either Paper, Hot Stamped, Screened, or Screened with overprint, as required |
| Magnetic Stripe | Can be either Hico or Loco, with Loco (three track 300 oersted), Hico (ranges from three track 650 oersted to 4000 oersted). |
| Hologram | For added Security |
| Encoding | Is data recorded on the magnetic stripe |
| Embossing | The alpha / numeric characters like name, card number etc. is punched on the card. |
| Tipping | The colours (gold / silver / etc.) which are applied on the alpha / numeric embossed characters |
| Thermal Photoprinting | Photo images and signatures are scanned and printed on the card along with flat writing |
| Infill / Indent Printing | Front Indent Printing for Debit and Reverse indent printing for Credit Cards. |
| Card inserting & mailing | The automatic process of inserting and sealing the card into an envelope along with any attachments-letter/ promotional material |
| Scratch Printing | Scratch off to conceal the PIN |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| EMV | Standards being set by Europay, MasterCard & VISA for Chip cards. |
| Microprocessor Card | Is very secure with inbuilt processing unit. Used mainly for financial cards and where high level of card security is required. |
| Memory Cards | Can be Secure also, but is nit intelligent enough to do processing. |
| X.25 | International standard for packet switched networks |