Add Some Color to Your Card Program

Almost all the ID cards and badges you see are a basic white for a very good reason. A crisp white card produces the best full-color print. And while that is desirable in most all cases there is another option for adding a little pop and another option to your  card program.

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School Safety and an Effective ID Card Program

As a parent of two beautiful girls I am always concerned about their safety at school. It is my humble opinion that despite slashed budgets schools need to take security more seriously than ever. An important part of that focus needs to be a student ID card program. This type of program outfits each student with an . . . → Read More: School Safety and an Effective ID Card Program

Don’t Forget to Clean Your PVC Card Printer

To ensure the highest level of performance from your ID card or badge printer be sure to follow these simple printer maintenance steps. Each printer manufacturer will have different specifications for how printers should be cleaned, there are a few general rules of thumb for maintaining your printer and your printer warranty.

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New Printer Available: The CIM Sunlight Lux

Just released from CIM, a global supplier manufacturer of systems for cards and metal plate personalization, the new CIM Sunlight Lux ID card printer is ideal for small and medium sized organizations needing a high performace card printing system.  This printer provides edge-to-edge printing of text, images, photos, graphics and bar codes as . . . → Read More: New Printer Available: The CIM Sunlight Lux

Membership Cards and Key Tags

Have you ever spent time getting ready, loaded up the card and then arrived at your destination only to find you left your membership card on the kitchen counter? I know I have and I know how frustrating an experience it can be. So why put your members through the same type of experience?  Instead of . . . → Read More: Membership Cards and Key Tags

Proper Access/HID Card Slotting

Access or proximity cards will have slot punch indicators, small dots visible on the card back which show the only allowable slot locations for the card. While it is perfectly acceptable to slot punch your access cards, we strongly suggest using badge grippers or clamps instead. These attachment devices work the same as slot . . . → Read More: Proper Access/HID Card Slotting

Mac 10.7 Print Driver is Now Availible For Your Evolis ID Card Printer

Evolis has just released the print driver for Mac 10.7. Contact an expert at Safe-Card ID for more details and directions to obtain the driver. This powerful addition to the driver library will allow you to use other design software more popular in the Mac platform to design and print on your Evolis ID . . . → Read More: Mac 10.7 Print Driver is Now Availible For Your Evolis ID Card Printer

ID Card PVC Sizes

ID Card and Badge printers come in all shapes and sizes but are limited in ability in terms of the card sizes they can print. Todays’ card printers are made to print on standard CR80 size cards, with a number of them also capable of printing on CR79 and only a very few that can . . . → Read More: ID Card PVC Sizes

Keep Your PVC Card Stock Clean

Keeping your blank pvc card stock clean is vital for ensuring that you get the best quality prints each and every time you use your ID card printer. That is because any abnormalities contained on the card stock can be transferred to your print job, giving you less than desireable results and wasting pvc with costly reprints.

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A Few Good Reasons to Pick Retransfer Printing Over Direct-to-Card Printing

Retransfer printers, such as the Fargo HDP5000 and the Magicard Prima  employ a process that print to a film and then heat roll he image onto the face of the card. This is different than the process used by direct-to-card printers, which as the name suggests, print directly to the card.

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