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In today's world of heightened security, ID badges are no longer viewed as just a way to learn the names of the people working in your office. With all the identity theft, pilfering of sensitive documents, and even the possibility of terrorist infiltration, it is important that you can identify who is in your work establishment at all times in order to guarantee the protection of important files, as well as the safety of your employees.

Hence, the employee ID badge needs to be of the highest quality to make identification quick and easy. But with the costs of using an outside printing company becoming prohibitive, many companies are choosing to print ID badges in-house as a way to save money.

The Magicard Rio and Tango printers can help your company produce quality ID badges while helping to reduce printing costs. Depending on whether you prefer the badges to be in colour or black and white, as well as one-sided or two will determine which one you choose.

A major difference between the two is in the type of badge they produce. The Magicard Rio printer, which weighs 18 pounds, prints a single-sided badge which can be produced in about 20 seconds. The 21-pound Magicard Tango is your choice if you prefer a two-sided badge, with the front containing a full-colour photo and the back displaying text in black and white. The entire badge will be finished in about 25 seconds. Both the Rio and the Tango are great for membership cards, barcoded cards, magstripe cards, and smart cards. An additional feature of both is that they now include an anti-forgery protection system as a standard feature.

Both the Magicard Tango and Rio badge printers will both help improve your company's security while eliminating the need to outsource printing jobs, which can help your bottom line in the long-term.

Securit 5500 and picture tables

Securit 5500 ID software is designed to connect to an ODBC compliant database. Below are the table structures and/or SQL queries required for Microsoft Access, MS SQL and Oracle.

Your existing database will need some minor modifications before a successful 5500 project can be created.

1. The main table where the data is stored will need to have a field added - The field should be called 'TAG' and set to numeric as the data type.
2. A picture table will need to be created to store images. This is performed as OLE Objects.

The picture table's structure needs to be in the correct format, any deviations will cause Securit 5500 ID software to fail.

Microsoft SQL for Securit 5500 - SQL script

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[Picture]') and 
OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1) 
drop table [dbo].[Picture] 
GO 
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Pictures] ( 
[ID] [int] NOT NULL , 
[LENGTH] [int] NOT NULL , 
[PICTURE] [image] NOT NULL , 
[TYPE] [smallint] NOT NULL 
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY] 
GO 
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Picture] WITH NOCHECK ADD 
CONSTRAINT [PK_Picture] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
( 
[ID], 
[TYPE] 
) ON [PRIMARY] 
GO

MS Access for Securit 5500

CREATE TABLE PICTURES 
(
IDNUMBER LONG, 
LENGTH LONG, 
PICTURE OLEOBJECT, 
TYPE BYTE 
); 
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ID_TYPE_PK_PICTURES ON PICTURES (IDNUMBER,TYPE);

Oracle SQL for Securit 5500

CREATE TABLE PICTURES 
( 
ID NUMBER(10), 
LENGTH NUMBER(10), 
PICTURE LONG RAW, 
TYPE NUMBER(2) 
); 
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ID_TYPE_IDX_PICTURES ON PICTURES (ID,TYPE); 

Securit 5500 ID software is available from Plastic-ID.com.

Choosing the correct ID software to fit your needs can be a complicated task, below is a table summarising some of the features from the securit ID software range. We hope that it helps you choose the right software.

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