Evolis announced the new Tattoo RW, a compact monochrome printer that can erase and print up to 500 times the same card. The new Tattoo RW is designed to print on rewritable cards. Such cards contain a thermochromic material that makes data (text, graphics and barcodes) visible or vanish, depending on the temperature to which […]

U.S. Bank is piloting with its employees in Minneapolis a new product that enables cardholders to use a single card for traditional magnetic stripe purchases, Visa payWave transactions and to gain access to secure facilities. Those involved in the pilot can make purchases and enter their secure work location using a U.S. Bank AccelaPay Visa […]

Team NiSCA announced today that it partnered with DVR Consulting Inc. to provide an ID card printing solution for Apple Computer-based K-12 school systems. With school budgets tight there isn’t money to buy a PC for student IDs. This latest update to the card printer enables schools with Apple Computers to use the NiSCA PR-C101. […]

One of the hot markets to grow ID card printing sales is in higher education, suggests this article form Business Solutions. Mark Doi, director of end user sales for the education market at HID Global, says universities offer a huge growth market for ID card sales. It’s a market that includes some 4,100 four-year colleges […]

How a small subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft became a global leader in identity management By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications HID Global enables workers to get in the front door of offices around the world. Many people see the three letters, either on their cards or access control readers, but odds are they don’t really […]

RedPrairie Corporation, a provider of productivity software solutions, has announced it will provide mobile label printing and RFID execution applications in its warehouse management solution. The solution, which enables individual warehouse workers to encode and tag shipments, supports the Zebra P4T Series mobile thermal transfer RFID printer/encoder, as well as other printing solutions. Mobile RFID […]

RFID developer ThingMagic has teamed with Zebra Technologies, provider of auto-ID and printing solutions, to offer a new mobile RFID printer. The Zebra RP4T printer integrates ThingMagic’s M5e-Compact embedded RFID reader module with a lightweight printing device, enabling users to produce long-lasting RFID tags and labels for a variety of applications. ThingMagic’s M5e-Compact was specifically […]

Evolis announced new features for Tattoo2, its entry-level printer for personalizing badges and plastic cards with text, pictures, logos and bar codes, singly or in small runs. Tattoo2 is now available with new printing and encoding features: direct transfer onto thermosensitive cards, printing on paper tickets and ISO-compliant magnetic encoding. These new features position Tattoo2 […]

Datacard Group, a Minnetonka, Minn. provider of secure ID and card personalization solutions, has brokered an agreement with Golden Spring Technology, a Chinese supplier of smart label and RFID equipment, that will allow Datacard to offer customers smart label package and contactless smart card inlay systems for the Asia Pacific region. Datacard Group offers ID […]