Id Card Making
Now a days id card making business is growing very fast. Schools,
Colleges, Institutes, Offices everywhere id cards are used and these days
plastic id card are used very much. This is why a new business has started
where these institutions give a contract to id card professionals to make the
id cards for them; this include student id cards in large. This article will
provide information for anyone who is planning to create an id card making
business. This will provide information about the process, technology and
market of source materials for making id cards at large scale.
Process of Making Id Cards
The process of making Id cards are basically of three types
based on the type of id cards.
- Laminated Id cards
- Fusing Id Cards
- Plastic or Smart Id Cards.
Laminated Id Cards
In Laminated Id Cards a special plastic sheet is used to
print the id cards from a normal color ink jet printer; then it is laminated
with lamination machine and then cut in each id card pieces. This is easiest
and cheapest method to make id cards. Its drawback is that id cards made with
this method is of small life i.e. color fades as the time passes and laminated
layer disbands. There are many types of sheets available in market for making quality id cards with this
process. One among them is known as Dragon Sheets, it consists of two printable
films and core sheet; others are synthetic sheets, Teslin laser sheets, sticky
sheets etc.
Fusing ID Cards
In this method also ink jet printers are largely used only
difference is that it is not laminated with a lamination machine rather it is
sheet are fused by a fusing machine. The cards made with this process have more
life and it does not fade with time, but is costs more than the laminated
cards.
Fusing machines that comes in the market fuses 20 or 100
sheets at a time, but it takes more than 30 min. to fuse the sheets.
Thermal Printing Process
This is the easiest and costliest method of id card making.
In this method printers used for printing the id cards are specially made for
this and are called id card printers. Generally these printers used dye
sublimation technique to print the id cards. Individual id card are printed and
for this plastic id card are available in the market. Id Card Printer be used
to print on smart cards, RFID cards, magnetic cards etc. there are different
kinds of printer in the market that print single sided id card, double sided id
cards. Only disadvantage of this process is the cost of the id card printer and
the cost of the id card prepared with this.
ID CARD SOFTWARE:
Making an id card design on computer is very tedious work
and if one is designing id cards for an institution which have large quantity
of id cards to be made for example a school with a large number of students
takes a large time in designing the id cards in image editing or graphical
software. An Id card software is used for this so to save the time of designing
the id cards on computer.
Id card software uses a data source commonly ms excel (or any other database like MS Access, Sql Server etc) to get
the data to be printed on the id cards. The user only designs one card or
chooses a template from pre designed card templates and arranges the data
items( fields) in the id card software and the software generates ready to
print images based on user’s choice of paper, orientation, resolution etc.. Now the user only has to print the card
images and take next step on process of making id cards. Thousands of id cards
can be made in a few minutes using an id card software whereas with image
editing or graphical software it takes many days. There are Many softwares
present in the market with different additional facilities and prices.
Benefits of using an id card software
a)
Simple To Use:- any body can easily use this
software to create id cards
b)
Saves a lot time
c)
Saves Money :- id card software generally are
not expensive things but it saves much more money than you invest in it by
saving your time and escaping you from complexity of an image editing or
graphical softwares.
d)
Easy To Make double sided id cards.
e)
Easy to make barcode based id cards.
Citron's ID Card Generator
Citron's ID Card Generator is an id card software which provides besides of above given benefits some additional facilities which the id card professionals find very use full. The software is very affordable and well suited for Indian users. For more information about the software one can visit its site www.icardsoftware.in.
In the next post we will give more info about ID Card Materials, Printers, Cutters and other related machines.
