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HID cards are a form of contactless access control solution. These cards can be used to gain entry by showing presenting these in front of the HID card reader machine which is usually installed at the outside of the door. These are the special types of ID cards which make use of a magnetic stripe code which is read by the reader machine. It also carries a chip which stores the personal data of the person and the reader machine reads this chip data to verify the identity of the authorised person.
The HID cards are the new innovation in the electronic access control systems. These require special printers for the same. The printing work on these shall be done by extremely experienced hands. The printing shall not come on the chip area or on the magnetic stripe. There can also be some colour distortions and therefore, the graphic art to be printed on these cards shall, ideally, use different types of colours.
These special ID cards have a separate and special designated space for the creating the holes for allowing the lanyards to pass through. These holes can be punched with the use of a card punch with extreme care, so that the hole is created right at the designated place only. The companies get to make the custom lanyards for their employees that can be used to hang the cards in front or even be placed in the pockets. When the cards are in pockets, the custom lanyards can show the name of the company to which the employee belongs.
The company can get the lanyards made ion different colours as well to differentiate between the different levels of employees or between the different departments. However, in order to maintain consistency of their brand, the companies might also get the custom lanyards made in one corporate colour only, irrespective of the designation or the department of the employee.
The use of these cards has grown worldwide and you can see these being employed in a number of different facilities. These are used by the very high security establishments, offices and stores cutting across the residential, commercial and industrial facilities to grant access to some parts or the whole of the place to authorized people only. They only have to show these cards in front of machine and the access is granted.
The use of the smart card reading technology has also been embedded in the OEM products like keyboards, laptops, notebooks, etc to provide logical access control to authorised users only.
When you order the making of these cards, the companies will supply these in a special card holder. It has to be of suitable size and each of the individual cards shall be placed in it without any damage. The card holder is of the shape and size of the HID cards and the custom lanyards can be made to pass through the holder rather than the card itself. The design of the holder shall be chosen carefully so that it does not cover the printed details of ID cards.
