A new smart card programmer from HID has given the University of Nebraska at Lincoln more start-to-finish control over card issuance, while giving its students and faculty an increased sense of security.

The iCLASS™ CP400 Card Programmer is a hardware and software package that allows a user to read and write information on HID’s iCLASS™ contactless smart cards. 

Puerto Rico’s Department of Health has tapped Axalto to supply the island’s two million health smart cards, the largest North American deployment to date and which is expected to be completed by the middle of next year. 

Sequiam Corp., which offers online printing solutions for universities has integrated its Print It 101 product with Blackboard’s Transaction System allowing students to access campus printing resources from anywhere there is Internet connectivity, using the familiar Blackboard campus-issued cards to pay for the printing services. 

Zebra has come out with its next generation card printer, the P330i, which has a newly designed card feeder that uses the weight of the card stack to ensure consistent feeding. Card capacity has more than doubled and its printhead now automatically adjusts to uneven card surfaces. 

Inside ID Conference and Expo, founded by industry pioneer Ben Miller and which had its inaugural run last year, is scheduled Nov. 15-17 under new ownership–Jupitermedia Corp. The Washington Convention Center is again the setting for the event that, this year, is being held about three weeks earlier than last. 

Howard University, Washington, D.C., has selected a security management solution from Siemens that provides for building and computer access on a single card, while also allowing the card to function as a cashless payment vehicle for students and staff. A major plus is that the new system allows the university to control and monitor all campus buildings from a single workstation. 

A private Wisconsin pre-K-12 academy has opted for biometric hand readers to regulate school access for its students, faculty, staff, and parents. The Recognition Systems’ hand readers automatically take a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verify the user’s identity in less than one second.