CREATING IN HOUSE MADE ID BADGES

With the current technology advancements that business organizations can enjoy nowadays, it is almost prehistoric business thinking to have somebody else design and produce the ID badges you provide your staff members with.
Card printer manufacturers have developed powerful, compact and affordable card printers that allow business managers and owners to produce professional looking and highly secure identification cards without the need of relying on third party outsourced designers to work on the layout of the cards and on professional printing companies to print them out.
Even large international corporations, government facilities and military units that may need access control cards (also referred as HID cards) can easily make them in house.
In order to produce in house ID badges, large international corporations, middle sized companies and small business organizations need an ID card system. That is to say, they need to have the different elements required for the task: a card printer, a stock of blank plastic or PVC cards, a digital camera, card software and card printer supplies (ribbons, cleaning kit, etc).
Almost all the card printers and card software programs available at the market are compatible with the Windows system that most computers run, which means that they are a match with almost all other software programs you may currently use in your company and that you may need for your ID badges.
In order to create your in house made ID badges you should start by deciding which information you would like to include in them and making sure that it is complete and updated in your company’s databases. Once this step is ready, make sure that you have high quality logos, background images and employees pictures as you will need them for your ID cards.
It is time to start working on the layout of your cards. The card software will help you with this task. Odds are it comes with different card templates that you will be able to customize quite easily so that the final ID card matches your needs and preferences. Do not forget to consider which security options you will want to protect your ID badges with as you will also have to take them into account for the layout.
Now that you have found a layout you like, start importing all the information and images from the varied databases you are going to use.
Load the blank cards to the printer and print a couple of cards to see if they look as you want them to look. If everything is all right, just go on printing your in house made ID badges.