Evolis, a provider in solutions for plastic card personalization, has introduced ultra-high frequency Gen 2 RFID encoding options within its single and dual-sided card printers – Pebble and Dualys. The Evolis Pebble and Dualys ultra-high frequency printers support a range of applications in various vertical markets, including identification, access control or tracking. Identification of employees, […]

Digital Identification Solutions announced the integration of the ThingMagic USB RFID reader/encoder with the EDIsecure XID Retransfer Printer. By attaching the Gen2 UHF USB encoder to the side of the XID printer, ID badges are printed and encoded in one step. The capabilities of the ThingMagic USB reader include tag reads at ranges up to […]

Zebra Technologies, a Lincolnshire, Ill. provider of specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, has rolled out its latest model, the Zebra ZXP Series 8, a retransfer printer that includes options for smart card encoding and networking. The printer is designed for such applications as high-security ID cards, driver licenses, gift cards and financial cards. The […]

Identification, NFC, contactless and Japan will all be major focal points during the 22nd edition of CARTES, coming your way Nov. 15-17 in Paris at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre near Roissy Charles de Gaulle international airport. One of the major changes this year, according to CARTES Communication Director Hélène Tsounguy, is the coming of […]

By David Wyld, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications When visitors step up to the gates of the four Disney World theme parks, the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, or the MGM Studios, they will encounter something unexpected and largely foreign to them. Disney has embarked on a program to use an established biometric technology – finger […]

The pinstriped lines of barcodes past are going the way of the vinyl LP – at least for many applications. Instead of the staid black-and-white bars, you are likely to find a chaotic looking area of scrambled dots. Thanks to the advances in tracking technology, barcodes have come a long way since their introduction in […]

ASK continues its progress in the provision of low cost RFID labels for library asset management. The company has aligned with Bibliotheca, a European provider of RFID-enabled library solutions, to market a combined system to libraries in the U.S. and Europe. ASK to deliver 4 million RFID smart labels for US and European libraries Bibliotheca […]

Lowell Adkins, executive director of the National Association of Campus Card Users, has just one word for those attending–or thinking of attending–the organization’s annual meeting in March: Disney. But he’s not talking about the Magic Kingdom, or EPCOT, or MGM, although those certainly provide nice incentives for bringing the family. No, it’s Disney as in […]

Attaching a small contactless tag to an item of clothing enables garment rental companies and laundries to better keep track of items throughout their lifecycle. The chip is embedded inside a heat- and chemical-resistant token such that it can withstand frequent laundering and abuse. Sokymat has offered contactless laundry tags in the past, but this […]

Texas Instruments RFid Systems is developing ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID tags for supply chain and logistics applications that will meet the requirements of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network currently being developed by EPCglobal. TI-RFid Systems also plans to join EPCglobal, the non-profit organization formed as a joint venture of the Uniform Code Council Inc. […]