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Zebra Technologies, a Vernon Hills, Ill.-based printer manufacturer, has launched its QuikCard ID solution, an all-in-one integrated program for entry-level card applications designed for small- to mid-size businesses and colleges and universities.

The QuikCard ID system combines the company’s value class printers with card design software and design templates that enable users to design, print and issue color photo ID cards for a variety of applications, including access control badges, visitor ID management and retail loyalty and membership cards. This solution also works for educational, state and local government, public safety agencies and nonprofit associations.

Package components include a Zebra P110i or P120i card printer, QuikCard ID Software, a Logitech USB Web cam and mini-tripod and a starter kit with a ribbon and 200 PVC cards.

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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 the card is exposed. This process can be rolled back and the same card can be erased and reprinted up to 500 times.

The Tattoo RW supports multiple applications such as loyalty programs, visitor management, transit passes, library and student IDs, and management of temporary employees.

Tattoo RW provides cards with additional encoding features such as ISO-compliant magnetic encoding and RFID. These additions are scaled to meet the requirements of loyalty and access control applications. Tattoo RW also comes with an Ethernet port to network it. Evolis offers two types of rewritable cards: a PVC card that can be printed in the two colors that make it possible to display barcodes: blue or black.

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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.

Introduced in 2007, the PR-C101 plastic card printer was designed with the small organization in mind. It offers a an out-of-the box solution for high quality, high durability, plastic cards with low maintenance requirements. Average time between failure is 50,000 cards.

The PR-C101 is small enough to fit in an office overhead bin or under a counter making it perfect for a school’s small office environment and it comes with an entry-level badging software application.

In June 2009, the PR-C101 will offer a Mac application driver. Mac based schools do not always have the latest processors. This software supports both Mac PowerPC and Intel hardware and Mac OS/X 10.4 and 10.5; therefore, no need to switch or upgrade processors or operating systems. Printer sharing is available. Staff members can print badges from multiple locations. Additional features of the Mac application driver include Colorsync support and magnetic encoder support.

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Just 16% of K-12 schools actually badge students and staff, according to a recently-released nationwide survey of the American Association of School Administrators. More significantly, there is a surprising difference in this rate among regions of the country.

While 16% of respondents said staff and students are badged, another 35% reported that staff only are badged. Some 20% say badges exist but aren’t enforced and 28% don’t use badges at all. Just 4% of the western states, such as California and Washington, reported badging students and staff. Compare that to a high of nearly 26% of respondents in the northeast, such as New York and Connecticut. Additionally, about 45% of responders from the western states say badges aren’t used at all.

However, more than 85% of respondents require all visitors to sign in and receive a badge.

What’s not so surprising is that nearly 80% of administrators responding to the survey describe their funding level as “stretched” or “inadequate.” One of the study’s findings points out that this lack of funding could be directly tied to the fact that not a single respondent reported all doors can be locked down electronically in the event of an emergency, which “represents a potentially problematic situation.”

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There are almost as many, if not more, choices of badge holders and related attachment accessories (i.e., lanyards, reels, clips, etc.) as there are choices of badging systems. Selection of the appropriate holder and accessory can help diminish the “nuisance” factor of having to wear and prominently display the identification or to easily access it for use with a card reader. Depending on the application, budget or access control system, an assortment of off the shelf options is available, as well as customized solutions.

Attachment accessories are normally categorized into lanyards, reels and clips and card holders are typically divided by application into three basic categories – corporate/employee IDs, visitor IDs and event IDs. Holders can also be divided by style into three basic categories – semi-rigid card holders, wallet-type card holders and rigid card holders.

Determining the best style with the most appropriate attachment accessory can help to ease the implementation of a badging system policy and the following guidelines can offer some assistance in making that choice.

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Photo ID will continue to dominate the authentication markets, especially for access control. This is in part due to the government’s move to standardized identification credentials for which cards are perfect. The problems that have occurred during the rollout of a nationally standardized ID depicts the same sequence of events which occur in most rollouts and new system deployments at any level of security or scale of deployment. These include: delays in implementing hardware; multiple technologies required; legacy systems already in place; and that old “Play It Again Sam” favorite: cost.

The fact is that a photo ID credential can be implemented into any level of security system, and the individual’s image on it, empowers every employee in an enterprise to participate in and assist in the enforcement of their organization’s security policy. That is what it takes to keep a place safe, making it everyone’s concern.

Photo IDs fit any scenario and add professionalism and ethicality to any security management system. You don’t need a database to immediately verify if a person is in possession of the proper credential. An image of the individual on a secure credential is second only to a biometric template but can be vastly more practical and ergonomic.

Credentials and photo IDs fall right into the evolution of security and authentication, even while flash and thumb drives are gaining ground in some markets. Systems are requiring multiple factor authentication, using multiple technology credentials with systems equipped to manage a variety of credential protocols. Even the most basic access control offers two factors, and many facilities are expanding their access control systems with multiple technologies and cross platforming databases.

There are considerations to be made with respect to throughput, reliability and cost when selecting credential technologies and our look at identity management tools will help you better select and advise your customers make an informed choice.

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