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Healthcare ID Badges

March 14, 2010 By

Photo id cards in a healthcare setting can quickly identify an unauthorized person in a secured area. In most hospitals and clinics there restricted area like bio-laboratories, surgical rooms where is necessary to control access and allow entry for authorized personnel only, we can produce any type of card from basic Photo ID Card to high security smart cards and proximity cards. In the hospital environment the most common use of ID Cards are:

Attendance and time control for payroll purpose
Computer and network access
Building access
Employee identification
Visitor identification
Patient identification
Employee and Visitor Identification
Food vending system

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Medical Alert ID Cards

March 14, 2010 By

Special Emergency Medical Alert Identification Cards (ID Cards), permanently printed on credit size plastic card and sealed under protective translucent film, we use the same technology as for high security ID cards.

Emergency Medical Alert Identification Card can contain following information:

  • your name, address, phone number
  • emergency contact info,
  • medical condition,
  • allergies,
  • medications list
  • blood type,
  • medical info,
  • doctor’s name and contact info,

If you have ongoing medical conditions, food or drug allergies, or are taking multiple medicines, you should carry an Emergency Medical Alert ID Card. Your Medical Alert ID Card contains a brief overview of your unique medical conditions and needs, medicines and allergies, and will inform a doctor, nurse or first responders of your medical condition before starting a treatment. In emergency situation in which you are unable to speak for yourself your Medical Alert ID Card will speak for you and may protect you against potentially harmful medical mistakes and will ensure appropriate and timely medical care.

Below is a partial list of conditions when persons should carry a Medical Alert ID Card:

Diabetes, Heart disease (angina, atrial fibrillation, pacemakers), Blood thinners/anticoagulants (Coumadin/Warfarin)/ aspirin, Drug allergies (such as Penicillin), Food allergies (such as peanut), Insect allergies (such as bee stings), Alzheimer’s/Dementia/Memory impairment, Anemia, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Arrhythmias, Asthma, Autism, ADD/ADHD, Bariatric surgery patients, Blood disorders, Breathing disorders, Cerebral Palsy, Clinical trial patients, COPD, Cystic Fibrosis, Emphysema, Epilepsy, seizures, Hearing, sight or mentally impaired, Hypertension, Kidney failure, Mental health patients, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, People taking multiple medications, Rare diseases, Special needs children, Stroke risk, Surgery, transplant or cancer patients, Tourette Syndrome.

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May 2012 promotion

March 12, 2010 By

15% off regular price on 30mil white plastic cards till May 30, 2012.

30mil white plastic cards

 

As low as $306 for 500

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How digital card printer works

January 23, 2010 By

If you are among the truly curious, you may wonder how FARGO digital ID card printers actually get those great looking images onto plastic cards. Well, this too is easier than you might expect.  FARGO ID Card Printers utilize two similar technologies called direct-to-card printing and High Definition Printing (HDP).

High Definition Printing technology

  • Direct-to-card printing is the traditional technology used by digital card printers to print images directly onto the surface of a plastic card. it does this by heating a special print ribbon beneath a thermal printhead, resulting in the transfer of color from the ribbon to a blank card.
  • With the FARGO High Definition Printing technology, the printer first prints images onto a special HDP film which is then fused into the surface of
    a blank card through heat and pressure.  Because the graphics and text are
    printed on the underside of the HDP
    film, the image is “sandwiched”between the highly durable film and the card.  This unique process results in exceptional print quality, durability,
    and the ability to print on the widest variety of acrd types or sizes.

During printing, a printhead containing hundreds of thermal elements heats the dyes on the ribbon which then vaporize and diffuse into the surface of either the card (for direct-to-card printing) or the HDP film.  A separate pass is made of reach of the three color panels on the ribbon. By combining the colors of each panel and by varying the heat used to transfer these colors, the printer is able to produce up to 16.7 million, photo-realistic colors.

With either of these remarkable digital printing technologies, there are two shared print methods both use to actually do the printing. These print methods are called dye-sublimation and resin thermal transfer.

Resin Thermal Transfer

Resin Thermal Transfer is the process FARGO printers use to print sharp black text and crisp bar codes which can be read by both infra-red and visible-light bar code scanners.  like dye-sublimation, this process uses the same thermal printhead to transfer color from the ribbon roll to the card or the HDP film. The difference, however, is that solid dots of color are transferred in the form of a resin-based ink which is fused to the surface of the card when heated. This produces very durable, single-color images.

Resin black panels are included on many of the FARGO full-color dye-sublimation ribbons so that you can automatically print both dye-sublimation and resin images on the same card.  This gives cards the benefits of both print methods.

Resin-only ribbons are also available for use with the FARGO direct-to-card printers for printing economical one-color cards in as fast as 5 seconds.  These ribbons consist of a continuous roll of a single resin color and can produce up to 3,000 cards. Black, scratch-off and a variety of other resin ribbon colors are available.

Dye-Sublimation

Dye-Sublimation is the process FARGO printers use to print smooth, continuous-tone images that look truly photographic. This process uses a dye-based ribbon roll that is partitioned by a number of consecutive color panels. The panels are grouped in a  repeating series of the three process color — Yellow Magenta, and Cyan (YMC) — along the entire length of the ribbon.

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