CORNELIUS, NC – May 10, 2002—ColorID, LLC announced today that they have launched a new sales promotion – “The Yellow Line Sale”. The promotion, which runs until June 15, 2002, provides $1,000’s of dollars off the list price of FARGO DTC 500 Series ID printers. The promotion provides significant savings off the list price of […]

Significant discounts on Fargo Extended Warranty CORNELIUS, NC – May 10, 2002— ColorID announced today an Extended Warranty Sale for Fargo Professional Series products (until July 1, 2002). This ColorID sale allows owners to save up to 20% off DTC 500 Series printers extended warranty programs. The programs are available with and without “Hot Swap”. […]

Editor’s note: I have worked around card technology for many years. I have used the line “the campus is a microcosm for society” more times than I care to admit. It is one of those phrases that can be used to sell a person on something or scare them from it. It has power. It […]

For most of us, our understanding of the printing process is limited to, ‘the blank card goes in here and the finished card comes out here.’ This is a testament to the reliability of these printers—they work so we don’t have to know how they work. However, as any mid- to high-volume user will tell […]

NEW ORLEANS (April 23, 2002) –Fargo Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRGO) today introduced the Fargo Professional Series CardJet™ 410 Printer/Encoder– the first dedicated plastic card personalization system that uses Fargo’s new CardJet Printing Technology™ – at the CardTech/SecurTech Conference and Exhibition here. Fargo will be exhibiting four new printers, including the CardJet 410, at Booth 1001 […]

SAN DIEGO, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Security technology companyImageWare Systems, Inc. (Amex: IW) has signed an exclusive agreement with a first-year commitment of $1 million with Comprehensive Identification Products, Inc. (CIPI). Under the terms of this agreement, CIPI will distribute the EdiGuard IDX 380 Re-transfer Card Printer Subsystem in the Americas. This agreement was concluded […]

Vernon Hills, IL, and Eden Prairie, MN, March 27, 2002 – Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ZBRA) and Fargo Electronics, Inc., (Nasdaq: FRGO) today announced that the companies have mutually agreed to terminate the acquisition agreement whereby Zebra would acquire all outstanding shares of Fargo common stock (including associated rights to purchase preferred stock) for $7.25 […]

Hofstra is a private university located in Hempstead, NY about 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island. More than 13,000 students participate in the undergraduate, graduate, and law programs. An additional 2600 faculty/staff raise the Hofstra population to 15,000 individuals. Add the cards are issued to alumni and special programs and the total HofstraCard […]

Issuing the identification card BY LOWELL ADKINS, ADKINS ASSOCIATES This is the first in a series of articles about access control and security on campuses. These writings are an outgrowth of a series of seminars I have done over the last several years – and those seminars are the outgrowth of thepractical experience I received […]

Why did the librarian cross the road? To get to the barcode. Frequently, card programs receive significant resistance from campus librarians. On many campuses, no other entity has more frequent interaction with the ID card than does the library. Add to this the fact that the librarian’s role has undergone staggeringly rapid change caused by […]