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Archive for February, 2012
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
ID Management Systems are one of the UK’s leading suppliers of plastic card printers and access cards. We’re independent of manufacturers, meaning that we are free to supply a huge range of different equipment from different brands, covering tens of thousands of products including plastic card printers, standard, smart and proximity cards, card accessories and ID card design and administration software.
Some of the major brands of printers that we supply include Zebra, Magicard, Evolis, Fargo and Datacard. For standard cards, we supply Fotodek, which we’ve found to be fantastic quality cards. We supply lots of smart and proximity cards from brands like TDSi, HID, Paxton, PAC, Cotag, Mifare and Infineon.
If you’d like to find out more about any of the products that we supply, call ID Management Systems on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: Cotag, datacard, evolis, fargo, HID, Infineon, magicard, Mifare, PAC, Paxton, TDSi, zebra
Posted in HID, id card accessories, ID Card Solutions, ID Cards, Mifare card, Net2, Paxton Access, plastic cards, proximity cards, smart cards, TDSi | Comments Off
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Smart cards are becoming extremely popular for all kinds of different applications and the most popular smart card is the Mifare card which is available in lots of different specifications and form factors to suit different uses, budgets and levels of security.
These are cards that are capable of more than just storing a single number and transmitting it to readers. They can hold information that can be used for multiple different separate applications, meaning that you can use the same card for lots of different things, like access control, cashless vending, print management, time and attendance tracking and as travel cards.
ID Management Systems supply hundreds of thousands of Mifare cards to our customers and we always do our best to make sure we can offer great prices. If you’d like to find out more about Mifare cards or any of the other products that we supply call us on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: Mifare, smart cards
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
Lots of people use their plastic card for more than just ID and ID Management Systems supply a very wide range of different types of technology cards from the main manufacturers like Mifare, HID, PAC, Paxton, Cotag and TDSi. This kind of card can be used for lots of things, from simple access control to cashless vending, time and attendance tracking and travel cards.
We understand the importance of making sure that you get the right card at the right price, so we will always do everything that we can to ensure you get exactly what you need and we will always try and beat any genuine quote for these cards from any other UK supplier, which is why so many people keep coming back to ID Management Systems.
If you’re interested in finding out how much money we can save you on your proximity and smart cards, call us on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: access cards, proximity cards, smart cards
Posted in access control, HID, Mifare card, Net2, Paxton Access, proximity cards, smart cards, TDSi | Comments Off
Friday, February 24th, 2012
People mostly have plastic ID cards because they’re concerned about security, whether it’s for a school, university, business or any other kind of organisation. You want to make sure that only the people that are supposed to be there are there, and that you can easily verify the identity of anyone that you need to.
Data theft is a common problem these days and everyone knows that you shouldn’t just throw important documents in the bin and risk somebody rummaging through them and getting hold of information that could potentially be used for fraud against you.
Bearing this mind, isn’t it extremely important to make sure that your old ID cards could fall into the wrong hands, especially any kind of technology or access cards? You can always cut a card up with scissors, but doing so is extremely laborious and not a good option if you’ve got any kind of volume of cards to dispose of.
We recommend using a shredder to make sure your cards are irreparably destroyed, but it’s also important to make sure that you use a shredder that is designed to deal with cards, like these.
If you’d like to find out more about card shredders or any of our other products, call ID Management Systems on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: ID card security, ID card shredders
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
We offer support with the plastic card printers that we supply, so we hear from our customers when they have problems with their machines. Occasionally, things do just break or go wrong, but more often than not the problems that we hear about are the sorts of things that could be prevented by routine maintenance.
Plastic card printers need to be cleaned on a regular basis using proper cleaning supplies. The most common cleaning supplies that you’ll need are cleaning rollers that ensure your blank cards are clear of dust when they’re fed into the printer, cleaning cards that go through the printer feed mechanism to break down any build-up of gunk and pens or swabs for cleaning the print-head itself, the most important and expensive component in your printer.
Failure to clean your printer properly and on a regular basis can cause lots of problems and it can also invalidate your manufacturer warranty, so it’s very important to do it.
If you’d like to find out more about how to clean your printer or stock up on cleaning supplies, call ID Management Systems on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
We offer support with the plastic card printers that we supply, so we hear from our customers when they have problems with their machines. Occasionally, things do just break or go wrong, but more often than not the problems that we hear about are the sorts of things that could be prevented by routine maintenance.
Plastic card printers need to be cleaned on a regular basis using proper cleaning supplies. The most common cleaning supplies that you’ll need are cleaning rollers that ensure your blank cards are clear of dust when they’re fed into the printer, cleaning cards that go through the printer feed mechanism to break down any build-up of gunk and pens or swabs for cleaning the print-head itself, the most important and expensive component in your printer.
Failure to clean your printer properly and on a regular basis can cause lots of problems and it can also invalidate your manufacturer warranty, so it’s very important to do it.
If you’d like to find out more about how to clean your printer or stock up on cleaning supplies, call ID Management Systems on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: printer cleaning supplies
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
ID Management systems only supply genuine manufacturer branded ribbons for plastic card printers, because we believe that the potential for small savings from buying compatible or copy ribbons isn’t worth the inferior print quality from the ribbons and worse the chance that they might damage your printer. Also, generally your printer’s manufacturer warranty is invalidated if you use compatible ribbons, so if something does go wrong you won’t be able to rely on the manufacturer for support.
So if you’re looking to save some money on plastic ID card printers and supplies, rather than saving money by buying inferior products, why not work with ID Management Systems? We have access to a huge range of different equipment from different manufacturers and we’ll always do our best to beat any other genuine quote from another UK supplier, helping you to save money without taking chances.
Tags: geuine branded card printer ribbons
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Saturday, February 18th, 2012
The UK and the world have been going through difficult economic times recently, so it’s a major concern for all businesses to make sure that their customers keep on coming back to them, so doing everything that you can do to keep your customers loyal is important.
Something that a lot of companies are doing is offering loyalty schemes, giving people a reason to want to tell you who they are in exchange for potential discounts, and an easy way to help you to administer a loyalty scheme while at the same time increasing the perceived value of it to your customers is to give them a high-quality printed plastic card with your branding on it in a nice and visible way, and their details on it. Wouldn’t you like it if your customers thought of you every time that they looked in their wallet?
If you’d like to find out more about getting loyalty cards for your business, call ID Management Systems on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: loyalty cards
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
Lots of shops supply loyalty cards of different kinds these days, from the big chains that have thousands of branches all the way down to local independent shops. Retailers use these cards in different ways to encourage their customers to keep coming back, whether it’s through offering special membership discounts or enabling customers to accrue points. The good news is that issuing loyalty cards for your shop doesn’t have to cost a fortune.
We can supply pre-printed loyalty cards with your custom artwork printed to a very high quality using several different techniques we can even make cards that have barcodes, magnetic stripes or smart chips if you want. The productions methods we use mean that whether you’re looking for tens of thousands of cards or just a small number, we’ll be able to suggest the best and most economical way to get you what you need.
If you’d like to find out more about getting loyalty cards for your shop, call ID Management Systems on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: loyalty cards
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
You hear a lot of talk about biometric systems, systems that use things like finger-prints for identifying individuals that are used for things like cashless vending and access control. The theory is that these systems are safer and more secure than plastic ID cards, but are they really?
The fact is that biometric systems are still imperfect and can’t always work, you’ll always run the risk of them either failing to recognise a legitimate input, not picking up on someone’s fingerprint even though they are on the system, or more dangerously recognising them wrongly and bringing up the wrong person or even approving somebody that isn’t even on the system at all.
Plastic ID cards don’t have this problem. If you use a card for cashless vending or access control, it’s highly unlikely that the system will fail to read unless there is some physically wrong with it, or that it could associate cards with the wrong people if the system is being used properly.
And of course, biometrics don’t give you the same visual identification that a plastic card does. If people have to wear their cards all the time, all it takes is a quick glance for anyone to verify that they have a card and that’s it’s the right card.
If you’d like to find out more about plastic ID cards, call ID Management Systems on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: biometric systems
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
At ID Management Systems, we supply a huge variety of different access cards from brands like HID, Cotag, Paxton, PAC and TDSi. We understand that with such a large number of different types and specifications of plastic cards available it can be very confusing and difficult to make sure that you get the right one.
A big part of the problem is that a lot of the cards aren’t very easy to tell apart, fundamentally, they’re generally a piece of mostly white plastic that’s about the same size as a credit card, often without any obvious branding on them.
Don’t worry though, often we can work with you to figure out the cards you’re using from a scanned image or a photo, and if in doubt, the best bet is always to send us a working sample of the cards you’re using that we can analyse and tell you exactly what cards you’re using and how much they’re going to cost.
If you’d like to find out how much we can save you on your access cards, call us on 0800 408 1471 and we’ll be happy to help.
Tags: access cards, Cotag, HID, PAC, Paxton, proximity cards, TDSi
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