Do more with your card lanyards!

Order Lanyards from CI Solutions to compliment your  staff, student, or employee ID card program!

Lanyards and reels make it easy to have a badge displayed at all times without even thinking about it, and make it easy to present the ID card when needed. For access control and time and attendance systems, this convenience can be invaluable.

Standard Lanyards come in a wide variety of colors and lengths, standard lanyards are the simplest and most cost effective way to use lanyards.

Adding a company logo or slogan to a Custom Lanyards can help easily identify lanyards and badges, and can serve as a handy branding tool during conventions or training exercises. The possibilities for customized lanyards are limitless – choose from lanyard color, length, and the text or logo printed on the lanyard itself.

Call us today to find out how high schools use colored lanyards to increase security on campus!

800-599-7385

Laminated Teslin Cards over PVC?

Laminated Teslin makes excellent name tags and key tags and gift cards. The finish is a little glossier than the standard PVC cards and because they are cut out of 8.5″ x 11″ sheets, the size of the finished cards is not limited to our standard CR-80 cards. Teslin is a plastic sheet that prints like paper. According to PPG the manufacturer of Teslin when laminated Teslin bonds up to 8 times better with the laminate than other products, needs no laminate border and is water resistant.

Popular, durable and economical to customize, Laminated Teslin is an attractive alternative to PVC in many situations.  Available to be custom printed and die cut into an unlimited number of shapes and sizes, a laminated Teslin card is a perfect fix for many card requirements.  One features it does not allow for is the use in a PVC card printer for end user personalization, however we do support variable data production in-house when manufacturing custom laminated Teslin products.

 

Need more ordering information? Contact the card experts at CI Solutions.

800-599-7385

Need to verify those coming in and out?

Member, ticket holder, resident check in and verification made easy!

Positive identification and account status verification with the scan of a card/keytag with easy to use CI Verify

• Check in members
• Control gate or turnstile
• Verify account status
• Display member photo
• Verify number of visits
• Activate gift cards
• Issue rental items
• Customize usage reports

For the busy front desk, the Check In module features a variety of ways to manage your gym members and get them working out in no time. The system provides a rapid check in by scanning the member’s key tag, membership card, or RFID (radio-frequency identification). If the member has forgotten their access card, the user can search for the member using alternative member information.

Friendly icons will display if there are important messages regarding the status of a member’s account, or if the member has services like personal training, locker rental, or baby-sitting along with their general membership. Check In also has a family gallery to make it easy to check in multiple family members at the same time by showing their photos.

Contact us today for more information or an online demo.

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Schools Reduce Tardies by 80%

PlascoTrac is designed to be user-friendly and easy to use for attendance clerks, security guards, hall monitors etc. The concept of PlascoTrac is quite simple, but the results for schools are remarkable. At the base level, PlascoTrac replaces the handwritten tardy passes and detention slips and gives administrators an accurate method of logging all student activities and infractions. This means:

• No more long lines at the attendance office
• No more paper trail
• No more inaccurate/inaccessible log-books

In addition, PlascoTrac helps administrators on the back-end by offering an efficient means of overseeing compliance of disciplinary actions such as detentions, ISS, and Saturday School.  Administrators will no longer need to track down habitual offenders and shuffle through piles of paperwork to know which students require extra intervention.

Contact us to get started immediately!

How to keep your image on your ID card!

Have you kept your ID card in your wallet too long? Have you seen the image transfer to the plastic lining?

When the image from your ID card transfers to that plastic piece the process is called dye migration. It occurs when a printed plastic card exposed to heat and pressure it then transfers the image to another surface damaging the image on the card. It is common in situations where employees, students and security guards work outside, leave their ID in vehicles, or store cards in a vinyl window of a wallet.

-How do you prevent the dye migration?

Use a laminating card printer. By adding a layer of laminate to your cards it will prevents dye migration, and also will make the cards more durable and scratch-resistant.

If a new printer isn’t an option you can buy anti-transfer badge holders. These badge holders are made of anti-print transfer material that won’t stick or transfer print from your ID cards. These badge holders are available in  vertical and horizontal orientations for ID Cards and Proximity Cards.

Call the experts atCI Solutions to find out more about your ID Cards and their uses!

800-599-7385

Lose Your Keys With Access Control

Metal door keys have been the norm since locks have been around, but with great advancement in security and monitoring there are many reasons to upgrade to proximity cards.  Access control systems are as basic as key entry or as complex as facial scanning.

 

A proximity (prox) card looks like a typical blank credit card with technology built inside the card. To access a building or room, a prox card is waived in front of a small wall-mounted reader outside the locked door. The card gives off a frequency and the reader wired to your main access control system grants or denies access to the cardholder based on your predefined card rights.

 Benefits of Prox Cards

• No need for physical lock changing or re-keying.
• Deactivate a card if lost or stolen.
• Each cardholder is given a different access number for tracking.
• Monitor who accessed what doors, at what time and what day.
• Minimizes the risks of “keys” getting in the wrong hands.
• Reduce the needs for security guards.

 Access control systems are long term purchase decisions that are scalable and can be customized around specific business needs and various levels of security access requirements.  CI Solutions is your access control expert and will work with you to design a custom access control system.  Call us at 800-599-7385 to discuss your security needs.

Routine Cleaning of the Evolis Primacy Extends Printer Life

Cleaning your printer is one of the easiest things you can do to help maintain optimal functionality from your Evolis Primacy card printer. Cards carry dust and other tiny debris with them through the printer’s internal print path. Dust and debris can potentially degrade your image quality and damage your printer’s printhead or other critical parts of your card printer. With routine cleanings, you can expect optimal image quality and a longer life for your card printer.

CI Solutions offers everything you need to keep your printer clean and efficiently running.  Call us at 1-800-599-7385 to order your supplies.

The Evolis Primacy is a mid-volume card printer, ideal for people who need to print more than 2,000 plastic cards per year, that replaces the popular Evolis Pebble and Dualys printers.

One Card Solution To Automate Your Campus

Your campus ID Card can now be used for library, student tracking, bookstore, cafeteria, vending, printer & copier control, bookstore, fitness center, door access control, retain on & off campus and more!

Key Features:

• Scalable Integration: Each module can be integrated at once or over time depending on your needs
• Card Technology: Barcode, Magnetic Stripe, Proximity and Smart Cards are supported
• Authentication: LDAP and Active Directories are supported
• Flexibility: Accounts can be networked or used in a stand-alone environment
• Web Environment: When an account is networked, users can view secure account information and deposit funds using the Internet
• Reports Run or create custom reports to gather transactional data
• Expandable: Allows campuses to start with one module such as copy/print and add applications to transition to a full campus card solution

 

For more information contacts us at:

CI Solutions

(800) 599-7385

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2 Options to Reduce ID Card Printing Costs

Option A – Order Pre-printed cards with a half-panel ribbon for onsite color personalization

Benefit: Highest quality card printing

Cost Savings: 1/2 panel ribbon is $38 for 400 prints per ribbon as compared to YMCKO ribbon is $80 for 250 ribbon print.

Option B – Pre-printed cards with a monochrome ribbon for onsite personalization and barcode.

Benefit: High speed printing for monochrome print at 850 cards/hour.

Cost Savings: Monochrome ribbon is $20 for 1,000 print ribbon as compared to YMCKOK ribbon is $80 for 200 print ribbon.  Additional savings is realized when only needing a single-sided printer.

At CI Solutions we believe  in providing the best service in order for you to facilitate your ID Card Printing. With over 20 years of experience we know how to make you’re not overspending or wasting materials! Contact us today for more information, or check out www.cibadge.com for more on ID Card Software!