Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Choosing the right card printer for your company

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Navigating the showroom floor

Employee ID credentials have advanced greatly in recent years, but as new security features and materials are added to the mix one constant remains: the need to print and personalize the badge.

Choosing the right card printer is like purchasing a car in that the buyer must balance wants and needs. While the organization may want the Ferrari of printers they must ask, is it feasible? Reliable? Maintainable? Will they even know how to drive it?

These are concerns that decision makers from every company–large or small–grapple with when investing in a card printing system.

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Card printer specialist Evolis has released its latest ID card printing solution in the form of the new Primacy printer.

Officially unveiled at CARTES 2012, the Primacy printer allows for single or dual-sided card personalization on a wide range of card types. New to the Primacy printer, however, is IP-based encoding, improved printer protection and wireless connectivity.

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Omni-ID, a supplier of UHF RFID tags, announced that Zebra Technologies has validated Omni-ID’s IQ 400 and IQ 600 on-metal labels for printer compatibility with Zebra RFID Printer Encoders.

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Evolis released Elypso, a desktop card printer that offers features for instant issuance in one model: manual card feeding, front-desk operations, dual-sided printing and encoding for magnetic stripe, contact and contactless chip card.

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Digital Identification Solutions AG announced the release of EDIsecure Connect, a software solution that drives multiple hardware systems and offers different security features across models on the same platform.

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