Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer Facts:

An estimated 182,800 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2000.

Approximately 42,200 deaths will occur in women from breast cancer in 2000.

One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.

Breast cancer risk increases with age and every woman is at risk.

Every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer.

Seventy-seven percent of women with breast cancer are over 50.

Get involved by visiting Susan G Komen Foundation

Security Imaging provides ID badge products that are made for awareness. By purchasing one of these products some of the proceeds go to help fight breast cancer. For a list of products please see the link below.

Awareness products

Smart Cards

Here is a link to a great article talking about the wide variety of uses for a smart card. Use one credential for multiple purposes.

Buy a Coke, Copy a class Lesson, Oh and open a door..

Largest supply of Badge Reels on the net.

Many customers tell us that we have so many styles of badge reels. The list keeps growing.
Check out this list and if you cant find the badge reel you're looking for give us a call.

ID Card Software – The Growing Need For Security

Gone are the days when people have been sporting ID cards or badges for the sole purpose of identifying themselves as part of an organization or business enterprise. With the innovations made in the printing technology, the ID card software and printer have made it possible for this simple ID badge to be more than just an identifying tool. Now more than ever, businesses are using the ID for attendance monitoring and time keeping related functions. More importantly, it is being used for a higher level of security access control. The ID card has indeed become multi-functional. It has equipped businesses with a more efficient and effective system for record keeping, monitoring and security.

The demand for enhanced company security measures has paved the way for IT providers and manufacturers to come up with products that will address this need. Affordable but sophisticated ID card printers have opened the doors to in-house printing. This has in turn provided companies with full control on the production and quality of their own identification cards. Your company can easily monitor the production of the ID cards. It can also regulate the design, security features and number of IDs printed. As your company does not need to outsource your ID card requirements, information and other security features embedded in your ID card is now kept confidential.

A clearly defined photo on the ID card can help your security personnel easily match the photo with the face of the wearer entering the company premises. A good HD printer can deliver on this requirement together with an ID card that cannot be easily tampered. An over laminate feature of the printer can ensures double protection in your ID card. The right ID card software can help you incorporate a holographic design or watermark in your company ID. This can make it more secure and would deter counterfeiters and forgers from making a duplicate out of it. Read More...

Photo badges beef up campus security

By Lois Tomas
Senior Staff Writer
Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:24 AM CDT
Stopping in at the school to visit your child’s teacher? Be prepared to say “cheese.”

School officials are requiring visitors, volunteers and others who come on to campus to register at a computer terminal in the front offices of all three schools. Once the information is entered, a photograph is taken and a visitor’s badge is printed out.

“This is just an added security and safety measure,” Assistant Schools Superintendent Mark Leek said.

The software is provided at no charge to the school by Identi-kid, a company with whom the school has been associated for years. The company provides finger printing and photo identification to parents to be used in child abduction or other scenarios.
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PHS students, staff ready for ID badges

They were a little resistant at first, but once they understood the reasoning behind it, members of the Prescott High School Student Council decided that displaying PHS identification badges at all times was "no big deal."

The reason, school administrators said, is safety. With ID badges in plain sight, school officials will know who does and - more importantly - does not belong on the PHS campus.

Starting Sept. 8, all PHS students, teachers and staff members must wear their ID badges so the badges are visible all time. This means wearing the ID badge on a lanyard or other form of neckwear, or clip - as long as it is above the waist on the outside of clothing.

PHS Student Council Vice President Tess Peterson realizes that displaying the ID badge is a "small thing."

Elected to represent their fellow classmates, the class presidents said that at first they wondered why the administration was taking such an action, and if it was necessary at PHS.

"A good majority of students thought this was going a little overboard and was just another rule we had to live with," Sophomore Class President Levi Rosdahl.

The new ID badge requirement is the result of Prescott High's North Central Accreditation process. Read More...

School staff should know who belongs by wearing id badges

The Daily Courier


Prescott High School is implementing, effective Sept. 8, a policy of having teachers, staff and students wear identification badges at all times. They must be displayed, not kept in a pocket, wallet or purse.

District employees with whom The Daily Courier spoke cited the need to meet North Central Accreditation guidelines for security. Students saw it as "no big deal" once they learned the idea was to keep the campus safer for the students.

Principal Totsy McCraley said the ID badges would allow everyone to know with whom they are talking. Teachers will be able to greet students by name as they enter the buildings, and students will be able to learn each other's names and what grade they are in.

What happened to knowing your students and colleagues as a matter of course? In our experience, even schools with large student populations have had little problem with this by having teachers and staff in the halls between classes and getting to know their charges.

Online comments at dCourier.com have likened the badges to the World War II era of Nazis requiring Jews to wear yellow stars for identification.

We do not believe it rises quite to that level; however, the flaw comes with NCA officials thinking this is a good thing - when more of a community environment is what we need.

School officials said with ID badges in plain sight, they will know who does and does not belong on the campus.
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ID product catalogs

Security Imaging stocks visitor signs, ID card printers, ribbon, access cards, lanyards, badge holders and more! We have such a large inventory not everything we sell is shown on our website www.securityimaging.com. Below you will find our catalogs that are available for download.

Most of the catalogs below are rendered in adobe photoshop .pdf format with the exception of the web based interactive catalog. For pricing and availability please call 1-877-369-7033.
If you have trouble opening the catalogs, you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here Download Adobe Reader

Security Imaging Interactive Catalog
2009 Security Id Products
ID Products Catalog
Overseas Badge Reels Catalog (most of these items have minimum order of 3000 pieces)
Keybak Industrial Badge Reel Catalog Made in the USA ID Products
Tempbadge Catalog Vistior Management Products that time expire

HID Global's new Fargo card printers focus on secure printing

HID Global's new Fargo card printers focus on secure printing
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New product line of direct-to-card printers has units for small businesses up to enterprise customers
BY GEOFF KOHL, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
SecurityInfoWatch.com
Updated: 08-31-2010 8:13 am

Image courtesy HID Global/Fargo
From HID Global's Fargo brand come three new direct-to-card printers designed to make access card and badge printing both simple and secure.
Aug. 31, 2010 -- HID Global's Fargo card printer business unit is out today with a new line of printers aimed to fit the needs of small businesses all the way to government and enterprise- level end users who need to create identification badges and access control cards. Announced today were the DTC1000, the DTC4000 and the DTC4500 "direct- to-card" printers that can handle both the badge printing as well as the card programming/reading. It's been since 2008 that the industry has seen a product launch of this magnitude from Fargo; it was June 2008 when Fargo launched the DTC400e (a predecessor to the printers in today's launch) along with the Personal M30e and C30e card printers. The new line is also notable as they are the first card printers Fargo has launched since the acquisition by ASSA ABLOY's HID Global brand.
The new printers are designed with security in mind. All of the units feature password protection to ensure that only authorize users can print cards, and the high-end model (the DTC4500) can handle specialty security printing features done on card laminates, such as holographic images, as well as ultraviolet printing. Read More...