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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
Press Releases, Product News, Technical Updates
Two Factor Authentication Innovation
AdvantIDge is excited to share exciting developments in access protection for digital identification. New enterprise-level software provides options for securing all your devices with two-factor authentication that can be added to your network while keeping implementation as simple and painless as possible. Passwords are the most common form of authentication used in the world today…. View Article
Making Great Looking ID Cards – Detailed Artwork Specs
The first thing that you should be considered in the layout of an identification card is what are all the visual elements. The static elements on your card, like your company logo, or perhaps some kind of a background image, are a great opportunity for your organization to present itself in a professional and visually… View Article
Technical Updates, Tips & Tricks
Manage Evolis Printers from Your Own Applications
The owner of a current model ID card printer from Evolis may have had experience with using the Evolis Print Center. This fantastic tool offers a lot of benefits concerning the maintenance and control of their Evolis product. Not every user has the option to add extra programs and features running in the background of… View Article
