Plastic card printer NiSCA has rolled out its newest retransfer printer, the PR-C201, which will be displayed at the 19th annual National Association of Campus Card Users conference in Seattle, Wash., April 21-25.

The PR-C201 features printing speeds of 160 cards per hour, while printing in 24 bit color at 600 dpi.

NiSCA offers a range of printers that produce full color plastic cards for corporations, education and government organizations. The printers are sold through the Team NiSCA sales organization in Somerset, N.J.  

The University of Arizona, Tucson, has rolled out a new campus card that includes contactless functionality. The new CatCard will be given to incoming students during student orientation and will be able to do the same things current CatCards can. However, existing students, if they want to upgrade, will have to fork over $25.

“The new chip (in the card) is a more powerful platform and will have a lot more possibilities than a regular ID card,” said Mark Barton, director of CatCard Services. 

The Lee County School District in southwest Florida is the latest to experiment with palm scanners in an effort to move the lunch line along faster. Students currently have to key in their ID number. If they make a mistake, it can slow down the line.

The district hopes to test the program in an elementary, middle and high school before the end of this school year. After the trial period, the program could be implemented district-wide. 

Student government members at Drew University, Madison, N.J. have successfully negotiated with a school administrator to eliminate the $25 fee for damaged, worn out or defective campus ID cards. Students will still have to pay for lost ID cards.

“We are now replacing damaged cards at no cost,” said Howard Buxbaum, the school’s vice president of finance and business affairs. “We had a meeting several weeks ago with Student Government and they made a strong case that worn out [and] damaged cards should be a university responsibility,” he added. 

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the fall 2011 issue of CR80News.

The interactive feature allows for a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were sitting in front of you. Even flipping the pages looks great with this new feature.

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Fingerprint technology acquired for Licking Heights’ five schools in Pataskala, Ohio, is aimed at moving students through lunch lines faster, along with reducing errors.

The fingerprint scanner from identiMetrics will require students to use their fingerprints to pull up accounts as they proceed through the lunch line. Currently they punch in student ID numbers onto a key pad. The system will go into effect next school year. 

Fujitsu Frontech North America and Sensometrix, which provide biometric authentication systems, have been awarded a series of services by Pearson VUE, a testing administration and services provider that delivers millions of licensure, certification, academic admissions, regulator, and government tests a year.

Pearson VUE has, in recent years, has deployed Fujitsu’s PalmSecure biometric identification technology to more than 500 Pearson test facilities. Test takers are able to accurately establish their identity by placing their palm over the Fujitsu PalmSecure reader before proceeding with any scheduled tests.