The siblings never expected to print paper cards, hence the name.
These loyalty cards are designed to replace the traditional paper punch cards that provide, say, a free coffee after buying ten coffees.
Mr Cockburn said that some items which seem like ideal candidates for recycling, like wrapping paper or cards backed with foil or plastic, simply will not be accepted.
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But, unlike paper, SIM cards can be encrypted and stored discretely.
All of the books, cards and paper are handmade using natural fibres such as flowers, sugar cane, banana leaves, cactus and coconut husk.
Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.
At the same time, he switched from a paper strip to punched cards. (Making the cards the same size as dollar bills meant that existing storage cabinets could be used.) By clever wiring of the tabulating machine, it was possible to count the number of cards with particular combinations of attributes.
Rows of brown paper shopping bags have index cards affixed to them to indicate their contents.
Staff were attentive, offering jasmine tea in paper cups and presenting name cards to each prospective customer.
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These take the place of the paper sign in and information cards found next to the gadgets on display, offering customers information and product specs on the computer or phone in question. (Hat tip to 9to5, which first reported these were coming).
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It sounds like an unlikely match: Crane has been printing cards and stationery on paper made of 100 percent cotton since 1801 in Dalton, Mass.
In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
Its PassFirst lets Brazilians swipe cards, rather than use paper tickets, at stadiums and theaters.
The bill requires counties to abandon voting systems that use punch cards, mechanical levers or paper ballots.
Papyrus, which started as a small family wholesale operation, has grown to include the brands Carlton Cards, American Greetings, Paper Thread, and four hundred and fifty Papyrus retail stores nationwide.
The New York company launched Paper by Paperless Post in October after customers requested a way to get its electronic greeting cards and invitations in a more old-fashioned way: On actual paper.
The 14 meant that "Royal" could annihilate 14 sheets of paper at once, not to mention credit cards and CDs.
In the paper, the authors argue that while credit cards have made transactions more efficient, they have also led to inflation.
At least five different voting technologies will be used November 2: electronic machines, lever machines, paper ballots, optical scanners, and punch cards.
When a power blackout or some other inevitable technical issue occurs, plastic cards can be imprinted mechanically with paper, or some other technology will be developed to record the transaction perfectly.
She saw paper stars hanging from the ceiling, and cards and posters on the wall, and a homey bedspread upon the mattress, but faeries had come to carpet the room with grass, to pave the walls with stone and set them with jewels, and to blow a cover of clouds to hide the horrible suspended ceiling.
We are optimistic on our estimate largely because of the shift away from paper based transactions which will drive sales on credit cards and debit cards.
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American Greetings is essentially a paper-based business though it does offer electronic delivery of cards and musical cards, Hahn said.
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An additional feature of the software is My Art for customizing photos through various templates including collages, greeting cards, calendars, stickers, disc labels and paper crafts.
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Going back to elementary school, Valentine's Day has been about the cards: First carefully crafted with safety scissors, construction paper and glue, and later bought pre-made from a store.
There is no aversion to credit or debit cards in theory, but the trouble is they leave a paper trail.
Use only professional-quality goods: Serious games are always played with plastic cards, which are not as easily marked or damaged as paper ones.
Like other paper-based distribution businesses, such as newspapers and magazines, demand for greeting cards have been negatively impacted by the proliferation and growing popularity of electronic media distribution.
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You can then take steps like making sure you have the minimum balance in your account(s), replacing paper statements with electronic ones, and avoiding the use of high cost ATM and debit cards.
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