Brainstorm ID Inkjet Printable PVC ID Cards: Create Professional-Looking ID Badges in Minutes

IT Manager: These work well. We use them with an HP Ink JET printer and card tray. The images are clear and smudge proof.

United States on Aug 17, 2023

Trisha M. Zavacky: Good product as always but Amazon driver totally manhandled the package. Box torn, all card packaging destroyed. Some product with scuffs because of it. I suggest better packaging to withstand a careless driver.

United States on Jun 06, 2023

Luis Alberto: Es buen producto

Mexico on Apr 13, 2023

Matt S.: I was going to use some incredibly thick laminated sheets (with a laminator I purchased from the same company), but then I discovered these for making luggage tags and cards. And BOY are these awesome!

A word of warning, however: I do all of my work in CMYK, becuase I have a CMYK printer, right? Well, the colors sometimes come out VASTLY different; it usually happens with reds and oranges (colors I don't usually have an issue with otherwise). If you're an artist, you might have to adjust colors to get them to print right, and even then you might just have to shrug and say "good enough". I think it's something with the stuff used to let the ink adhere to the card. Who knows?

(UPDATE: try fiddling with your printer settings. your Y value for your red should be low; that seems to get it at least SOMEWHAT close to red and not an orange?)

That being said, Brainstorm has an AWESOME new template thing on their page to make the perfect printable for these cards. They print great, the ink doesn't come off (I've taken a knife to one of my finished cards before to test it) and they're ofc sturdy as heck. I wholeheartedly recommend getting these (and don't forget the tray...

United States on Dec 12, 2021

Satified customer.: The inkjet printable cards and Canon print tray were a great purchase. I have been wanting the ability to print vinyl cards for some time now. Works great without the huge expense of card printer.

Canada on Dec 11, 2021

Christi Kennedy: To make name badges for Mycrew
I like the fact I can personalize them

Canada on Nov 02, 2021

Tony in Houston: Excellent, excellent, quality! This is the exact same size and thickness of a credit card but you must use the right printer model that supports a special tray that fits this perfectly on. You can also print to the very edge of the card and it'll look perfectly crisp, without any smears! 1 thing I do have a problem with, which might be due to my inexperience or trial errors because this is my first time with the printer and hardware. I bought a Canon TS9120 plus the Brainstorm ID tray to go with it, just so I can print these cards. They provide a template in Word, Photoshop, and some other format but I went with their Photoshop version. I don't have Photoshop but I do have Paint.Net, which I really like and is much easier to use. It was able to open the PSD file from Photoshop but it doesn't end there because it's not exactly ideal to use Paint.Net due to the inability to edit text. Although you can create text with it, it immediately turns into an image so if you want to change it, you'll need to clear the existing and create a new so I only used it to get the layout and instead, used Inkscape, another powerful yet free app to do what I need. I still have to use Paint.Net to get...

United States on Nov 09, 2019

NelsonNelson: These cards are amazing and super vibrant, and you can print pretty tiny barcodes on them with no issues. I have gotten so many lame, blurry thermal PVC cards printed on-site at various places, this system blows them out of the water at a fraction of the price. The only difference between these and thermal PVC (besides the print time) is that they're a little tacky, almost like they have been slightly rubberized. But if you pop them in a plastic ID card holder on a lanyard or a clip, it is impossible to tell the difference. And they are so cheap, if you screw up a print, who cares? In addition to actual company IDs, I print cards for friends just for fun, too, and everyone I've given them too has been impressed. I don't tell them I printed them with a less-than-$100 investment...

A few extra tips are in order for those who have not used inkjet PVC before. First, you'll need a Brainstorm tray, which should be around $20. If you don't have a compatible printer, the Canon TS8120 works great, is compatible with the "M" tray, and is pretty cheap at $55 right now. Unless you really need a fancier printer for some reason, there is no point in getting anything more expensive. I'm...

United States on Aug 10, 2019

ALF: Parfait ! L’objet est arrivé à temps et il est conforme à la description ! Merci.

Canada on Apr 12, 2019

Angel S: I had to order the tray from the US side, but it was worth the hassel. I am the head of a grass roots nonprofit, and we have an event where we need our volunteers to have tags, AND we want those tags to also support their volunteer discounts, so we used this system to create plastic (pvc) id tags, with the rewards card on the back. They turned out amazing, the ink does not smear, it is waterproof right away. The system was easy to use, the seller has tutorials and templates on their website (as well as all kinds of other things to work with ID cards. Thank you for this inexpensive way of meeting our needs!

Canada on Oct 15, 2017