About Us
Opening for business in 1990, we began by producing advertising and marketing materials for small businesses, helping small businesses get their name out in front of both their existing and future customers. As part of our line of products, we produced plastic business cards. That part of the business grew until it was the main part of our business, eclipsing the advertising and marketing products until it was our sole line of product.
To be competitive in this market, we needed to be highly innovative as we could not compete against the established multi-nationals already servicing this field. So where they had size on their side, we went for nimbleness, being the first to introduce a number of technologies into the Australian plastic card market.
We were the first to introduce a dedicated high-speed inkjet numbering line into Australia, giving us the ability of personalising over 50,000 cards an hour for the phonecard market. We were also the first to introduce the hp Indigo s2000 digital offset press, enabling us to print personalised card onto true PVC and polypropylene substrates, reducing our waste significantly and enabling us to produce very short runs of cards at a very economical rate.
Our abilities didn't go unnoticed in the market, with all the larger plastic card manufacturers in Australia utilising our talents to supplement their own abilites. We very quickly become the company that others turned to in order to solve problems and to supplement their much larger production capabilites with our specialist short run abilities.
Realising that we had spare capicity in our production capabilites, we decided to look to other opportunites and services we could provide. Leveraging our short run knowledge and our extensive experience with data management, we decided to go to even shorter runs than ever before, one item per job, personalised by the client to order. In 2009 we launched Fiske Gifts, offering customers the ability to simply personalise a wide range of products with their own images. Unlike other similar services, our experience in plastic printing and our knowledge of coatings has enabled us to offer a much larger range of products, produced in house, than others. Added to that is our extensive contacts with other companies that we had supplied in previous years. We now had the opportunity to tap their experience to ensure that we had the highest quality of product available