Identification Systems

People have been creating and using ID cards for over 100 years.  Prior to the early 1990’s, the most common way of producing an ID card was known as the cut-and-paste or film-based method.  This involved taking a person’s photo, cutting it out, and then laminating it to a card-sized piece of paper containing the person’s data.  The results of this labor-intensive method were cards that weren’t very durable and were easy to alter.

Today, digital printing has become the technology of choice for organizations issuing identification cards.  Digital photo ID systems are now affordable, easy to use, and offer a host of benefits that cut-and-paste systems can’t: ultra-fast production times, low per-card cost, single-step printing and encoding, unlimited card designs and color options, magnetic stripe, bar code, proximity or smart card options, powerful database options, highly durable cards, difficult to counterfeit, faster, easier badge replacement, and far less labor.