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Tips For a Healthy ID Card Printer: General Printer Support
ADVANTIDGE is often tapped for our expertise and suggestions to get the most life out of their ID badge machine. Though every card printer is a little bit different, and all of the manufacturer’s have their own specific ideas and guidelines, there are a few printer maintenance tips that every badge printer has in common… View Article
Badge Buddies Role Recognition Cards
The Most Efficient Way to Display Hospitals and medical facilities cannot take unnecessary risks with any aspect of compliance protocol. This is why ADVANTIDGE offers custom bundled solutions for visitor management and access control systems. With a deep knowledge of security best practices, we provide expert guidance for optimal outcomes we recommend Badge Buddies are… View Article
Casino Doubles down with Custom Membership Cards
Overview: Casinos are well known for having membership cards and Casinos in California are no different. Many casinos, including those in Southern California and Las Vegas, use ADVANTIDGE for all of their card printing needs for a complete membership ID solution. It’s quite common to see casinos using a complete card system consisting of two… View Article
New Lanyard Customization Capabilities
Enhance brand recognition with the addition of a custom lanyard! There is any number of ways to make your organization stand out both within the organization and for corporate events. Our round customizable-printed attachment has a printing area of 1″ and sits just above a user’s badge or ID card, commanding increased attention and getting… View Article
Security Features: An Overview
Assuring that ID card data is genuine and has not been altered or forged may require entirely separate techniques depending on how the document is produced. For example, laser engraving or indent printing permanently alters the ID card substrate, thereby reducing the threat of tampering or data substitution. Laser engraving can also be used to… View Article
What’s the Difference Between Active and Passive RFID for ID Badges?
The Difference Between Active and Passive RFID Active RFID and Passive RFID are fundamentally different ID card technologies that are often mistaken for one another. While both use radio frequency energy to communicate between a tag and a reader, the method of powering the tags is different. Active RFID These use an internal power source… View Article
Office Access Solutions: The ID Badge System
The Power of the ID Badge System With today’s security compliance requirements and the limitless need to keep sensitive data secure in your organization, security breaches have undeniably become a top concern in all professional office environments, making secure access solutions a high priority. In many work settings today, nearly all employees wear ID badges… View Article
How to Increase Your ID Card Durability
Now that you’ve made the investment into a card printer, you definitely want your cards to last as long as possible. Card durability is essential to guard your cards against everyday wear and tear — eliminating the cost of creating replacement badges due to card damage. Whether you’re producing student IDs, construction worker credentials, or… View Article
Spot Print Head Damage in an ID Card Printer
Proper printer care is very important and regular maintenance can go a long way to ensuring that your badge printer stays as reliable as the day you purchased it. There are a lot of different things that can go wrong with an ID card printer. One of the worst scenarios is when the print head… View Article
What’s the Difference Between HiCo & LoCo Blank ID Cards?
Blank ID Cards Aren’t All Created Equally. Have you ever wondered about the differences between Magnetic stripe blank ID cards? There are two types: High Coercivity, or “HiCo” and Low Coercivity, also known as “LoCo”. Both cards can store the same amount of data, the difference lies in how strong the magnetic stripe encoding is…. View Article
