German-based Digital Identification Solutions has rolled out its newest printer, its EDIsecurer LCP 9000 Laser Color Personalization System, a desktop card production solution capable of producing fraud-resistant ID cards. The printer is on display at the CARTES and IDentification Show in Paris. The EDIsecurer LCP 9000 integrates high quality XID Retransfer color printing and secure […]

Normerica INC., one of North America’s largest private-label kitty litter producers, has implemented a new system which simplifies the RFID-tagging process required by some major retailers. The new system, created by Ship2Save and packaging producer Krupack, eliminates the need for an on-site RFID printer and the manual placement of RFID tags, relying instead on tags […]

Bell ID will offer demonstrations of the instant issuance of dual interface MasterCard PayPass cards at CARTES 2008. The demonstration will include the personalization of PayPass M/Chip cards for Bell ID booth visitors using the Bell ID ANDiS4EMV Card and Application Management System. Visitors may keep the test cards and will be encouraged to present […]

Expanded service delivery to students creates need for cards in this untapped market By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates haven’t had the same level of access to a campus card. That’s an untapped and underserved market that includes 11.5 million students. That’s how many attend community colleges, junior colleges and […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Oberthur Technologies may just be the ‘youngest old company’ in the card business. Sound like a contradiction? Consider this, it was founded in the mid-1800s but it was just twenty years ago that its first product was produced. For 150 years, the company ran paper through printing presses. Today it […]

HID Global announced that it has been selected to supply its Fargo HDP5000-LC printer/encoders to the U.S. Department of Defense Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). As part of the DMDC’s migration to the next generation of ID card printers, the HDP5000-LC units will be utilized throughout the DMDC. The primary use of the Fargo HDP5000-LC […]

Zebra Technologies Corp. announced that Vail Resorts selected Zebra’s new P330i UHF RFID card printer/encoders and custom-designed UHF cards to create RFID-enabled identification cards for use with Vail Resorts’ “easy scan” system. The new system is designed to provide instant authentication of lift pass holders at the company’s ski resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge […]

Cognitec, a developer of face recognition technologies, has received the an award for Product Line Strategy of the Year from consulting firm Frost and Sullivan for its FaceVACS kit. The award was given due to the product’s performance and benefits to the end-user. The collection of FaceVACS capabilities is able to function as a facial […]

But is it a cost efficient, greener alternative or a fad with serious security risks? by Andy Williams, Contributing Editor For some members of the card printing market, it’s hard to justify costs involved in printing rewritable cards, while for others, like HID Global, it’s an untapped, perhaps under-served market. Rewritable cards are plastic ID […]

Ringdale, an Austin, Texas-based provider of network connectivity solutions, has launched Sentinel CardCreator, photo ID card production software designed to work with standards-based card printers, for instance those manufactured by Fargo and Zebra. CardCreator is scalable to fit any size organization’s requirements. The software can be installed on a standalone PC at an organization’s reception […]