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Tools For Strengthening Visual Security On ID Cards

October 29 2018  |  By: IDSecurityOnline

Tools For Strengthening Visual Security On ID Cards

To enhance enterprise security, cards and badges can incorporate visual security elements—both on cards and on card accessories like lanyards. What is a visually secure ID card?

Answer: One that incorporates enough visual security features to ensure the ID card accomplishes enterprise security objectives.

Retransfer Printing Technology Offers Solid Advantages Worth Considering

October 23 2018  |  By: IDSecurityOnline

Retransfer Printing Technology Offers Solid Advantages Worth Considering

Retransfer (reverse transfer) printers—the most advanced card-printing technology available—print reverse card images onto a flexible, transparent film (retransfer film; a thin clear substrate), and then thermally bond (fuse) the film onto the card surface with heat and pressure as a distinct secondary process. These two-steps—called “reverse thermal image transfer”—don’t print directly onto the card surface.

By comparison, traditional dye-sublimation direct-to-card printers use a printhead that prints through a ribbon directly onto the card surface; the printer’s expensive, and often delicate, printhead touches every PVC card directly, triggering increased printhead replacement. Any uneven part of the card surface—including contact with card edges—can cause expensive printhead damage.