A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Andy Matko, Marketing Manager, Ultra Electronics Card Systems ID cards, by their very nature, are all about increasing security. However, one issue that is often overlooked is preventing people cloning […]

The focus at Fargo Electronics is squarely on desktop ID card printers and consumables but some might be surprised to know that it is the consumables that make up the larger share of the company’s revenue. In a market where unit sales growth is relatively gradual, new revenue streams and ways to provide more to […]

When fully implemented, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program may include six million credentials and provide a standard that could be used by companies/facilities that require employees to have access to secure areas. According to BearingPoint, Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) systems integrator for the $12 million prototype, key to the program is the development […]

The Food and Drug Administration today announced that SurgiChip, a revolutionary RFID solution that uses RFID printer/encoders and labels from Zebra Technologies, has been cleared for marketing. The system embeds and prints information on an RFID “smart” label that travels with the patient into surgery to help prevent errors. Viewed as another vital safeguard to […]

The Little League World Series this year badged players, coaches, and staff with mag stripe ID cards that could be scanned to register teams and officials. The cards were produced by Ultra Electronics Card Systems’ Magicard ID card printers. Little League World Series badged by Magicard The Little League World Series baseball event was recently […]

A new smart card programmer from HID has given the University of Nebraska at Lincoln more start-to-finish control over card issuance, while giving its students and faculty an increased sense of security. The iCLASS™ CP400 Card Programmer is a hardware and software package that allows a user to read and write information on HID’s iCLASS™ […]

An automatic smart card personalization system, suitable for users wanting decentralized production of ID, EMV and GSM cards, was demonstrated at CARTES by Muehlbauer, a manufacturer of turnkey automation solutions for smart card and smart label production. The Scope 5400 system is freely configurable and highly flexible due to its modular design. Muehlbauer exhibits the […]

Canadian company Alacris has introduced its new version of idNexus for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that allows smart cards to be printed during the enrollment process, giving organizations the ability to deploy smart cards that support both advanced authentication (logical access) and corporate identity badge requirements. idNexus 2.1 Extends Lifecycle Management Capabilities for Smart Card […]

Zebra has come out with its next generation card printer, the P330i, which has a newly designed card feeder that uses the weight of the card stack to ensure consistent feeding. Card capacity has more than doubled and its printhead now automatically adjusts to uneven card surfaces. The next generation of the largest-selling card printer […]

< ? $key="0730"; ?> U.S. smart card efforts get major boost from the President, NIST, and ISO The U.S. Federal Government’s progress toward credential standardization and cross-agency smart card issuance has been greatly expedited by a Presidential Directive (HSPD-12), a national standardization effort (FIPS 201), and progress toward a potential international standard (ISO 24727). Read […]