The Purchase College Association, Inc., the not-for-profit auxiliary service corporation at Purchase College, SUNY announced today a new partnership with CardSmith, a New Jersey company specializing in campus card programs. This partnership provides significant upgrades to the existing one-card program marketed as the “More Card” in an effort to achieve the level of services students entering colleges are expecting. As part of the expanded services, all students, faculty and staff, will receive new More Cards in the Fall. 

The Arapahoe Park and Recreation District (APRD) is using a Zebra standalone, dual-sided color printer to produce photo ID cards for staff and residents at the Colorado state park. 

The latest ammunition in the continuing struggle to keep secure areas secure may come in the form of a small handheld biometric reader that can identify a fingerprint or read a bar code off a truck, license tag, or ID card. With contact and contactless capability, the new reader from the Canadian company, Labcal, can also serve as a backup system if the main server goes down. 

The CBORD Group, Inc. and SIVA Corporation announced that the companies have entered into a strategic alliance to integrate SIVA’s iSIVA point-of-sale (POS) software with the CBORDÒ Webfood online ordering application. As a result, iSIVA users will be able to offer their customers the option of placing takeout, delivery, and catering orders for their favorite meals via the Internet. Bruce Lane, Executive VP of The CBORD Group said: “Off-premises dining has become an important growth area for almost every segment of the hospitality industry, and Webfood offers a proven method of increasing off-premises dining sales volume. 

Architectures for card issuance systems can be categorized as either centralized or distributed in nature. Each scenario presents a unique set of opportunities, and perhaps more importantly, security risks that must be understood and addressed. 

Editor’s Note: In a recent Banking Corner article, we asked the question “should your campus use the 16-digit ISO numbering scheme.” As a followup to this article, we look at part two of being ISO compliant. Special thanks to Taran Lent of CardSmith for the preparation of this important article. 

Silex Technology America today announced the availability of SecurePrint – a new biometric-based network printing solution that will allow companies to secure the printing of sensitive documents at the printer. Business today is conducted within a culture where document security and control is very important. silex’s SecurePrint extends security to the printed document ensuring that they are printed only by those authorized to do so by requiring fingerprint authentication at nearly any USB-enabled printer. Developed as a result of silex technology’s long experience in network printing, SecurePrint also ensures unauthorized eyes do not view or take documents from the printer – for my eyes only printing.