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It is I, David Allen, UX Prestidigitator.photo by Johan Famel My "official" title with InstantCard is UX Prestidigitator. "Prestidigitator" is a ridiculous way of saying "magician." And, in the interest of full disclosure, I'm normally the one who comes up with our employees' titles [...]
Most people have tried laminated cards, which they quickly find to be flimsy, cheap-looking, and unsecure. When an organization is ready to produce professional plastic cards, there are just three choices: 1. Purchase and operate an in-house system 2. Contract with a local service bureau 3. Online [...]
Whenever a large organization is planning to roll out an ID card printing project, it has the option of choosing 1-step or 2-step printing: 1-step printing involves printing all information, both fixed and variable, on a blank white card in one single pass. 2-step printing involves pre-printing [...]
Many people ask us whether we worry about ID cards being replaced by mobile apps? Our answer is: "maybe, but not for a long, long time". While there are some situations where a mobile app has become a preferable solution, there are still many circumstances where a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you’re coming to us to have your ID badges printed, you may already have a logo and established branding that you want to apply to your cards. However, perhaps your logo includes only one or two colors and you haven’t given much thought to what [...]
Many of our clients issue photo employee ID cards without an expiration date. For companies which have an exit interview procedure, an expiration date is often not necessary because they can recover the ID card when an employee leaves. Other organizations are not concerned about the [...]
Are you proud of the city you work in, the building for your company, or the truck you use on the job? You might be able to use it as the background for your ID Card! With a high enough quality photo taken with just the right [...]
Without a doubt, a lot of our clients require simple, classic ID badges. And, while such badges can be printed in-house, they come to us because of a general, well-deserved hatred of jammed printers. We do, however, have quite a few clients who realize that by [...]
