1. Go to START/PRINTERS & FAXES and find your HDP5000 print driver.
2. Select it, right click and go to PRINTING PREFERENCES.
3. Select the “Card” tab.
4. Click on the “Tool box.”
5. Select Calibrate Ribbon and follow the directions provided.
6. Begin printing your cards again.

If you continue to have issues, please call us @ 317-488-1030 to discuss next steps or, possibly, a service call. ASAP Identification is a Fargo Authorized Service Provider and we can handle all your Fargo service needs.

Order a DTC1000 printer from ASAP Identification, and we will include 1 free YMCKO ribbon with your purchase.

Please contact ASAP Identification @ 317-488-1030 or email us at info@asapid.com.

About Visitor Management
In many environments, visitors are still asked to enter their information in a paper log book. While this method is perceived as quick and easy, it provides little security and leaves visitor information available for anyone to see. To address these issues, HID Global’s EasyLobby® Secure Visitor Management solutions allow organizations to automate the entire process of registering a visitor, printing a badge and capturing detailed information in seconds by simply electronically scanning an ID (such as a driver’s license, business card or passport).

The solution is flexible, customizable and feature-rich to meet the needs of small and enterprise organizations with diverse visitor management processes and policy requirements.

Key Benefits:

• Enhances the professionalism of an organization by streamlining the visitor check-in process and providing high quality badges for all visitors.
• Improves security by enabling organizations to identify exactly who is in their facilities and the reason why. Allows users to create watch lists and screen against unwanted visitors.
• Captures detailed visitor information more accurately and distinguishes between different categories of visitors.
• Performs analysis/reporting on visitor data across multiple locations.
• Affordable, easy to use and simple to install.

Please contact ASAP Identification Security for more information or to see a trial version of Easy Lobby Visitor Management software.

In a small organization with just 25 employees earning $20/hour: 15 minutes of non-worked time each day equates to a loss of nearly $30,000 / year for the organization. Time Track more than pays for itself in two weeks!

With Jolly’s Time Track, you can design and issue badges and ID cards for employees, contractors or other groups of people. Registration can be completed on-site, online via your company’s intranet or at self-registration kiosks. Track and control access to your facility or job site while also tracking entry/exits by requiring employees and contractors to scan their badges on entry and exit. Generate time and attendance reports that can be viewed, printed or exported while centrally managing multiple locations and databases as needed.

For more information or to see a demo, please call ASAP Identification Security at 317-488-1030 or email us at info@asapid.com.

The move to a more “frictionless” security experience, meaning a security experience that does not slow users down, is one of the key trends HID Global anticipates will drive the industry in 2013. One way to remove friction is to embed credentials inside Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled smartphones and other mobile devices, so that users needn’t carry separate cards, keys and tokens. This not only removes friction but also meets the need for improved cost and convenience. For instance, organizations can still benefit from the use of strong authentication as a primary security pillar, without forcing employees to carry a dedicated security token. Instead, the token is on the user’s phone, which can also be used to open doors and conduct other secure transactions.

To make this frictionless security experience a reality, credentials will be embedded into NFC-enabled phones, and identity management will move to the cloud. Organizations will enable frictionless user login using both Software as a Service (SaaS) as well as internal enterprise applications. In a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environment, employees will be able to use their personal devices. Cloud security becomes a critical ingredient. While much of today’s focus is on securing the platform, it will also be critical to resolve challenges around provisioning and revoking user identities across multiple cloud-based applications, while enabling secure, frictionless user login to those applications.

HID Global has worked with pilot partners including Netflix® and Good Technology™ to test some of these frictionless security concepts in the enterprise. The goal was to see how users would react to a mobile access control model, with cloud-based provisioning of digital keys and credentials. Both companies realized that people carry their phones everywhere and consider them to be almost like an extension of their ID (having conversations, conducting bank transactions, storing photos). This makes the devices an extremely convenient access control platform.

Frictionless access control requires more than convenience; solutions also must be easy to use. HID Global’s enterprise pilot participants found mobile access control to be as easy as using a traditional plastic card. Another requirement identified by pilot participants was a high level of device choice. This creates the need for widely available NFC-enabled phones and solutions that are based on open standards to simplify adoption, especially in a world of BYOD deployment and IT consumerization. Frictionless access control solutions based on open standards will also future-proof the access control infrastructure, ensuring that investments in today’s technologies can be leveraged in the future.

In addition to delivering the convenience and simplicity of frictionless security, the industry will also need to define best practices for managing and supporting today’s influx of BYOD mobile phones. Authentication from a personal device to an application on a corporate network or in the cloud will be critical. It also will be critical to ensure the personal privacy of BYOD users, while protecting the integrity of enterprise data and resources.

As we meet these challenges, we will deliver an increasingly frictionless security experience in a new era of cloud-based applications and services. This experience can spread rapidly as we take advantage of the smartphone’s on-board intelligence. Consider the possibilities for physical access control, alone. Today, approximately 5 percent of all facility doors have some sort of electronic access control. The rest are unsecured, or secured by a mechanical lock and key. When we let NFC-enabled smartphones serve as both the key and the rules engine that makes the access control decision, we could see more than five times that number secured and delivering a frictionless mobile experience in the future.

Receive up to $200 on the ZXP Series 3 Printer. Order from us today and receive the rebate instantly!

• Z31 Single-Sided Model = $150 Instant Rebate
• Z32 Dual-Sided Model = $200 Instant Rebate

Promotion Restrictions:

• Instant rebate applicable to the current ZXP Series 3 and QuikCard™ bundles
• Applicable to all available inventory and configuration at NA Distribution centers—limited to supplies on hand.
• Special pricing deals are excluded from the instant rebate.
• Instant rebate cannot be combined with GO Zebra trade-in, or any other promotion.
• No maximum quantity on the instant rebate.

For more information, please call ASAP Identification Security at 317-488-1030 or email us.

• High Definition Printing™ gives you superior print quality, even on cards with embedded electronics, for a more impressive public image.
• High reliability and durability lowers your total cost of ownership, and affordable pricing makes High Definition Printing available to practically any business.
• We back the HDP5000 with a lifetime printhead warranty and three-year warranty on everything else.
• Versatile modular design permits change as your needs change. Dual card input hopper, dual-sided printing, single- or dual-sided lamination and card encoding technologies are all field-upgradeable features.
• Minimal training is required because of its simple design and intuitive operation. Cards, ribbons and overlaminates come in cartridges that load quickly and easily.

Key Features:

• New optional dual card input hopper simplifies card handling and minimizes downtime.
• HID Global next-generation HDP platform enables faster print speed.
• Optional single-sided or simultaneous dual-sided lamination for higher card security–quickly.
• Dual-sided card printing option lets you double the print area available without manually reloading cards.
• SmartScreen™ LCD Control Panel displays helpful status messages and prompts.

Contact ASAP Identification for more information on getting the HDP5000 Card Printer/Encoder set up in your organization.

Card stock with Visual Security Elements:

As the threat of fraud, theft and forgery looms large, today’s counterfeiters are more advanced than ever. The proliferation of digital printing technology has made forging legitimate-looking ID cards all too easy.

That’s why you need HID Global. Visual Security Solutions^® are available including:

• Holographic Foil Cards – Custom-designed, metallized or translucent holograms are layered inside of the card, just below the surface to add a custom layer of security.
• Holographic Overlaminates (laminator required) – Lamination provides a layer of durability and security, especially with a custom laminate that is very difficult to replicate.
• Holographic HDP® Film (for use with retransfer printer) – Custom HDP film offers a layer of added security to your card design.

Fluorescent Printing (UV)

Most card manufactures offer ribbons which include a fluorescent panel for printing elements on the card that are only visible under UV light. Fluorescent printing makes duplicating and forgery more difficult.

Implementing smarter smart card issuance with inline personalization

No longer a novelty, smart cards are a part of daily life for many of us. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find “dumb” ID badges personalized only with a color photo and black text that function simply to help others visually verify that we are who we say we are. Today’s smart IDs serve not only as photo identification, but also as access cards, debit cards and even mass transit passes in major cities across the world.

End users who manage the issuance of these smart cards to individuals in their organizations routinely synch up data that’s pre-programmed into the card’s electronics with personal data that gets printed onto the outside of the card. Specifically, within an organization’s database, an employee record containing a photograph, name and ID number gets updated to include a unique card ID number that was pre-programmed into a contactless card (and typically pre-printed onto the card’s surface) by a access card manufacturer or a system integrator.

How quickly and accurately the cardholder’s personal information is updated with the access card’s unique ID number varies. Many organizations’ first step is to use a desktop card printer to add color and text to a card’s exterior. Next, they extract the card from the printer’s output bin, turn to their computer and manually type the pre-printed/pre-programmed ID number into that cardholder’s record in the database. If their system is slightly more automated, they may have an external desktop reader on which they can tap the smart card in order to electronically copy its ID number into the cardholder’s record.

This two-step process is used so frequently that card issuers have grown accustomed to synchronizing their cards this way, even though it adds time to the issuance process and increases the potential for keying errors. Often when a typing error is made, it is not discovered until the cardholder attempts to enter a facility and is denied access, which compounds the error and adds even more time to the issuance process.

Today, the tools enabling issuers to move away from the outdated two-step process into one, inline smart card personalization process are readily available. In an inline personalization process, users submit a card into a desktop printer equipped with an internal smart card encoder, and in one seamless step the printer/encoder personalizes the card inside and out. This inline process saves time so issuers can focus on other tasks, increase card throughput and effectively reduce errors that commonly occur during the synchronization process.

Nearly all major card printer manufacturers offer the option to build card readers/encoders into the machines, and offer card issuance software that is compatible with the integrated system. If an organization already owns a card printer, it can usually be upgraded with an encoder in the field.

By integrating readers/encoders into card printer hardware, organizations position themselves to leverage the benefits of smart card applications well into the future. And when they’re ready to maximize their smart cards’ functionality, they’ll already have the smart issuance part of the equation figured out.

Using the latest in Zebra card-printing technology, the ZXP Series 7 provides high-volume high-quality card printing. The printer delivers fast yet reliable performance while offering users exceptional value by lowering the printer’s total cost of ownership. Time after time, it prints sharp vivid cards with precise color control.

For more information, please contact ASAP Identification at 317-488-1030 or info@asapident.com.