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Subject:
Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
Category: Business and Money Asked by: kitty71-ga List Price: $50.00 |
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15 Apr 2003 20:52 PDT
Expires: 15 May 2003 20:52 PDT Question ID: 191045 |
Who are the print vendors for Starbucks stored value cards and carrier programs? | |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
Answered By: oracledave-ga on 08 May 2003 19:53 PDT |
ValueLink, the gift and spending card service of a First Data Corp. supplies Starbucks Coffee Japan DENVER, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ValueLink, the gift and spending card service of a First Data Corp. subsidiary , today announced that Starbucks Coffee Japan, Ltd. has selected the ValueLink service to assist in the development and implementation of the Starbucks Card program in the coffee company''s 400 Japanese stores. The agreement marks the first ValueLink program launch in Japan, and builds upon the company''s work with other U.S.-based merchants who currently offer international stored value card programs or are looking to expand their stored value card programs globally. The Starbucks Japan card program mirrors Starbucks one-year old U.S. program..... go here http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten/artikel-1720215.asp www.valuelink.info IPS Card Solutions Facts Primary locations: Greenwood Village, CO Tulsa, OK Customer service: (877) 848-8970 Media contact: Wendy Carver-Herbert (303) 967-6416 wendy.carver@firstdatacorp.com IPS Card Solutions' ValueLink® service started its first stored-value card program in 1995 serving large, national accounts. Since then we have been an industry leader, currently issuing over 250 million gift and stored-value cards each year. The ValueLink full-service stored value/gift card program offers transaction processing services, card acquisition, card fulfillment and customer service. I Believe they do it all..... | |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: jbf777-ga on 16 Apr 2003 10:08 PDT |
Hi - Unfortunately, Starbucks signs confidentiality agreements with their vendors, so this information would not be available to the general public. Sorry, jbf777-ga GA Researcher |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: kitty71-ga on 16 Apr 2003 10:29 PDT |
I know the info is not readily available (hence the "search"). However through clever google searching I was able to locate one out of four. I searched for print awards. |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: edgreen321-ga on 21 Apr 2003 18:03 PDT |
Personix http://www.personix.com/ |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: kitty71-ga on 21 Apr 2003 19:35 PDT |
Thanks for the input! Can you tell me what part of the project they produce? I didn't see anything about Starbucks on their website. Erin |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: edgreen321-ga on 24 Apr 2003 07:55 PDT |
I think they do the card & carrier.... You might be able to go into StarBucks and see if there is "printed by" anywhere... Often the card printers do add their names in small print. For the data-processor, so you want the one that does Starbucks, or anyone which can run a system like what's being done at Starbucks? |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: kitty71-ga on 24 Apr 2003 09:05 PDT |
Thanks Ed, I have recently found two other vendors that print their plastic cards and have found confirmation with all except personix. Still looking though.... Concerning data/personalization, What I would really like to know is who does the data on Starbucks'cards. Most importantly, Starbucks does a gift card found in Safeway grocery stores where the activation barcode is on the paper carrier, not the plastic card. I need to find out who prints the barcode on the back of the Safeway package. This one is challeging!! I am bidding on a project for them and they won't share what type of equipment should be used to produce the unique laser printed barcode on the Safeway/Starbucks piece. Thus the reason I am trying to find out who/how it has been produced in the past. |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: edgreen321-ga on 24 Apr 2003 12:06 PDT |
A bar-code is a bar-code. Is there a place on the web where I can see what it looks like? It's nothing to make a bar-code. http://barcodingfonts.com/barcode.htm It is probably 3 of 9 or Code 129. Will they give you the number to print? If all you have to do is make the bar-code, then there is nothing to it. Just buy the font from http://barcodingfonts.com and print it like you do a number. (the barcode software comes with instructions for doing so) If you need a company to run the "stored value" there are many that do just that, and if you need the "activation" of the card, there are a a few major companies that do that for the cell-phones. |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: kitty71-ga on 24 Apr 2003 12:33 PDT |
I know it is a 128c numeric only barcode. What is unique is that it is laser printed. This can easily be done on a card but most paper carriers on a stock heavier than 12pt will not fit through traditional digital or laser equip or docutech's. We think it can be done on an Indigo press but would like to know how it is currently being done and on what type of equipment. It would be very easy to do this barcode using inkjet technology on the size of paper requested, but laser or digital becomes a little trickier. |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: kitty71-ga on 24 Apr 2003 12:36 PDT |
I must add that these barcodes are variable, ie, each paper carrier holding a card inside has a different serial barcode. We understand and have the technology to do this, but not with laser.... |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: edgreen321-ga on 24 Apr 2003 12:56 PDT |
What do you mean "print in laser"? A laser printer? You want to know how to print the bar-code (unique per card) on the thick carboard paper which holds the card? |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: kitty71-ga on 24 Apr 2003 13:34 PDT |
Yes. Most gift cards and products of this nature have the activation device (barcode or mag stripe) on the actual card. The cards are then "personalized" most often using inkjet or thermal devices. In this case the actual paper holding the card has the activation device and the thickness of the paper will not allow it to "go through" most laser personalization eqipment. Keep in mind there are often over a million at a time printed so smaller machines will not work. |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: edgreen321-ga on 28 Apr 2003 11:54 PDT |
I assume that you checked on the items and it did not say "printed by..." anywhere? Is there a UPC code on the card? Maybe look up the owner... Often the UPC belongs to the company supporting the database behind the card, and not the vendor branded on the card. Maybe go into a store and ask them who supplies the cards? Say you want one for your product. I am sure you can get that info, and "follow the trail" from there.... |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: kitty71-ga on 28 Apr 2003 12:36 PDT |
Hi Ed. In this business the company (Starbucks in this case) usually creates it's own database and barcode format. They provide the personalization vendor with a database that is then printed on the product. If they do source out database work from an outside company, this company would have no contact with the end producer. Starbucks has "print buyers" who specialize in gift card technology and all sourcing goes through them. The people in the stores have no idea where the cards come from. That's usually the case. Thanks again. Erin |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: edgreen321-ga on 29 Apr 2003 15:22 PDT |
True story. I was at a convince store which sold gift card like Starbucks. (Not starbucks, though). I asked the guy at the desk where I could get the cards, since I wanted to stock them in my store. (I don't have a store). He said he would check. I gave him my number, and he called me back with the company which supplied the card. I am sure a few phones could get me the name of the person which printed it. What about the UPC? Many prepaid cards do have the UPC of prepaid card company, and not the service providor the prepaid card is for. See if StarBucks has their own UPC range. Check products that are sold at StarBucks. See if the card UPC has the first same digits... http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/upc.htm I agree with you that it must be done via an Indego. |
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Re: Print vendors for Starbucks gift cards
From: edgreen321-ga on 29 Apr 2003 15:24 PDT |
Do any of the other cards have the same barcode on the package feature? http://www.safeway.com/GiftCard.asp |
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