Campuses wanting to be greener may want to give USFI a look. The company offers biodegradable and recycled card stock for IDs. A typical PVC card will take between 200 and 300 years to breakdown in a landfill, where as USFI’s biodegradable cards will turn to dust anywhere from nine months to five years, says […]

Print management on campus can be a difficult task to conquer but WEPA–Wireless Everywhere, Print Anywhere–has a different take on the problem. Campuses that deploy WEPA enable students to print from the cloud, print from a USB drive or print directly using wireless from a laptop, says Frank Griffith, CEO at the company. WEPA also […]

Schlage’s Aptiq line of smart cards and readers is built on an open standard that enables organization’s to build their own application for the cards, says Rajesh Venkat, vice president of marketing at Ingersoll Rand. The company is looking to work with application developers to create different programs for the credentials. The company is positioning […]

Jolly Technologies was giving demonstrations of its ID Flow system at the National Association of Campus Card Users Annual Conference. ID Flow is a visitor management system that enables a school to scan a driver license, capture a photo and fingerprint biometric, check that data against a watch list and then issues a credential, says […]

Simply printing a secure credential does not mean that it can’t be forged, other security measures need to be taken. “You have to have a whole corporate-wide approach to your issuing and credentialing system,” says David Murphy, industry development manager for cards, at Zebra Technologies. “It’s not simply a printer, it’s everything around it: the […]

Security features on identification documents play an important role because all they require is a glance. By simplifying these features, making them inherent in the card and by personalizing the security features it can help create a simpler way for people to recognize a fraudulent document. MorphoTrak’s 3D photo is a feature that aims to […]

Teslin is a tear-resistant and tamper-resistant print media based on hydrogen and carbon that is used as a secure layer in ID credentials. The layer of Teslin is printed on prior to laminating the ID. “The composite card that you would make with Teslin is actually going to give you better security, durability and functionality […]

Motorola’s newly developed ATRIX 4G Android powered mobile phone contains an embedded fingerprint sensor for use with security systems on the phone. Chiefly among the biometric sensors purposes built in to the phone is as a biometric lockout on the phone in general with other security options including a drawn pattern, PIN or password. If […]

MorphoTrak unveiled a new biometric scanner that captures both the fingerprint and vein pattern at the same time, says Consuelo Bangs, senior program manager at MorphoTrak. “The device uses two different biometrics. It’s both the standard fingerprint that everyone is aware of, but now, we’re marrying that with the finger vein. So the vein pattern […]

One of Digital Identification Solutions’ newest printers, the EDIsecure DCP 360+ Direct Card Printer, builds upon the company’s already developed line while adding new features such as dual-side lamination and smart card encoding for both contact and contactless technologies, explains Jonathan Bowen, product marketing manager at the company. “More and more of the market, especially […]