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InstantCard will be exhibiting at the APTA (American Public Transportation Association) Conference in Atlanta Oct. 9-11, 2017. This is the major industry conference, and only occurs once every three years. You can find us at booth No. 3360, where we'll be demonstrating the following two services [...]
October is a busy month—in addition to being "Inktober," "Filmtober," and the month that gave us Jeff Goldblum —it happens to be National Cyber Security Awareness Month. We'd be remiss if we didn't use this opportunity to talk about the intersection of cyber security and ID badge [...]
As an alternate title, I might have gone with “don’t reinvent the wheel;” but I was once told to avoid cliches like the wind. Recently, I was migrating an extremely massive contact list from one big cloud service provider to another. Unfortunately, the new service provider didn’t [...]
Sometimes it's the small things. At WWDC 2017 Apple unveiled their new HomePod, major changes to their App store, and the new iOS 11. But, in all of that, we were most interested in the small upgrade added to the built-in iPhone camera application—QR code support. While [...]
We recently teamed up with TapTrack to make our Credential Verification Service even better. Now, you can use your CVS ID badges to have works check-in and check-out of a work site—one more way CVS helps make your projects more safe and secure! In [...]
In 2005, congress passed the REAL ID Act—establishing security standards for IDs to be federally recognized. (Officially, this is referred to as “H.R.1268: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both [...]
Over the years, many InstantCard clients have asked us if we can print custom photo IDs on their existing "clamshell" badges. These are the thick, hard plastic employee ID badges that are very commonly used to open doors in buildings. Previously, we advised those clients to replace [...]
What is a watermark? A watermark is an image (normally the logo or other branding asset) that is put on the card with a transparency so it doesn't stand out in full color. It is typically used as a design feature to make the ID card look [...]
In 1981 John Naisbitt published a blockbuster book called Megatrends. Of the 10 major trends he identified, one, which he called “High-Tech High-Touch”, was so profoundly important that it led to the publication of a second best-seller, by that exact name, in 1999. We believe that the [...]
In many industries, it is considered “Best Practice” to require employees to wear a visible employee ID badge at all times. This allows a company to verify that everyone on site has been appropriately vetted and is authorized to be present. ID badges also make it [...]
