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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
Why You Need The Corporate 1000 Program
The Corporate 1000 program is the ideal way for large organizations to keep track of HID prox iclass card numbering on a global level, especially when multiple sites or multiple businesses share security data across multiple systems. Here is a quick summary of the main program highlights you need to know: What is the Corporate… View Article
Proximity Cards or Key Fobs?
Time for a Decision You’ve finally decided to go with secure physical access control. Great! Now the question is, “Which should I go with, proximity cards or key fobs”? Let’s see what they both have in common. Both are known as “contactless” cards, which means they don’t require physical contact with the reader. Users simply… View Article
New Range of Card Printers for Self-Service Kiosks
Introducing Self-Service Kiosks ADVANTIDGE would like to introduce the new self-service kiosks and printer line brought to you by our security partner Evolis. These customization systems are ideal for integration into a terminal, either as a kiosk or as an automated device. With new features, they are particularly compact and robust, while offering greater flexibility… View Article
Card Security…KICK IT UP A NOTCH
Advantidge works with companies of all sizes to provide added security to their ID cards. In years past only large organizations and government entities could afford the expensive holographic options available for increasing card security, but now these same security features are available to all, at prices almost everyone can afford! In addition to combating… View Article
