Getting pictures printed on security cards

[rage2]

Anyone know where I can go to take a picture and print 'em on those security card thingys that get you into buildings? I don't feel like shelling out $10k to buy the equipment to do it myself... are there companies that come out and take pics and print 'em onto our cards?

[Melinda]

Call the high schools like Western Canada, we had our picture put right onto our ID cards and I dont think the school had bought the equipment. If you call them maybe they can tell you where they brought in the equipment from

[3G]

the school doesnt do it i think. the photo companies do! call jostens!

[sputnik]

Will the pictures be printed on proximity cards? Or will it be a dumb piece of plastic with a picture and name on it?

[MerfBall]

The pictures are just printed on stickers and stuck onto the proximity cards. So any photographer that has the equipment to print onto stickers can do it.

I wonder if it would cost more to have a photographer to do it or just purchase the equipment.

On the other hand I wonder if you could do it yourself just with your digital camera and find a source for heavy grade stickers that you can print yourself.

[rage2]

Proximity Cards. Those HIDCorp ones. They're telling us the equipment to do it ourselves is $10k and I was hoping to contract it out for a lot less than that. We have about 100 cards we need done.

[Melinda]

Yeah they arent done with stickers...some might be but not the ones I think rage is talking about and mine weren't in high school...just call around, maybe try the big photo companies but I had to have a separate photo taken for my ID card so it might not have anything to do with them

[rage2]

yea, definately not stickers. It's printed right on the cards.

[Ben]

they print your photo onto a plastic sticker about a half mm thick, and it adhears to the main proximity card. *looking at my HIDcorp proximity card right now*

[sputnik]

On the HIDcorp cards they just use a sticker.

(Looking at my HIDcorp Telus issued card)

[rage2]

Hrm, my group telecom one is printed right on the card, not a sticker.

I guess Telus just sucks .

[bigboom]

my card has a sticker over it as well...

[sputnik]

Originally posted by rage2
Hrm, my group telecom one is printed right on the card, not a sticker.

I guess Telus just sucks .

When I had a Group Telecom card back in Winnipeg it was a different format. The card was about the thickness of a credit card and was directly printed.

Has GT switched to the common HID cards which are thicker (and have a bevelled edge)?

[Shaolin]

my company might do it, but i'm not certain.. will have to talk to the CSRs.

http://www.dbf.com/

[roopi]

These guys sell the printers. Pretty sure they have a Calgary location. Don't think they are that expensive either.

Or call these:

Full Color Imaging Ltd - 403-228-4330
Photo ID Security Cards - 403-273-0272