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HID has released firmware and driver updates for its Fargo HDP5000 card printers that provides an array of improvements and enhancements to printer operations. The HDP5000 printers now have support for Windows Vista 32-bit. The new firmware and driver also resolve magnetic encoding conflicts and enhances the magnetic encoding head for Super Hi-Co encoding. More [...]
HID Global recently released a Mac driver for Fargo’s HDP5000 Printer. The driver works exclusively with Mac OS X v10.4 and Mac OS X v10.5. The list of card printers compatible with Mac is very short so the option to use Fargo’s HDP5000 printer is a big win for Mac users.
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How important is security to your organization? Incorporating visual card security to your photo ID cards will make the card increasingly difficult to reproduce. One cost efficient way to improve ID card security is to add Ultraviolet or UV image(s). For less than ten cents per card you can convert photos, [...]
NFive is now offering CardFive Vision 8.3, the newest version of its ID card software. This CardFive Vision upgrade provides new and improved features and additional support, including the wider range of contactless encoding options and easier photo acquisition, to make deploying photo ID cards more convenient and secure. CardFive Vision can now encode Mifare [...]
Fargo recently announced a firmware, driver, and Workbench utility update to improve the functionality of the Fargo HDP5000 printers. The upgrade corrects the skipping of the K panel when using YMCK or YMCKK ribbon. The update also corrects the Check Film error, which happens when the printer is paused. The HDP5000 and HDP5000-LC photo ID [...]
Black lights are making a comeback and this time it’s happening at airports. Last year USA Today reported that the Transportation Security Administration is increasing its screeners’ use of hand-held black lights to verify passenger identity. Screeners can highlight hidden “ghost images” that only appear in authentic photo ID licenses and passports when exposed [...]
Premier security innovator HID Global, parent company of premier ID card printer manufacturer Fargo Electronics, is distributing inventory from its Fargo HDP5000-LC laminating card printer and encoder product line to the Department of Defense’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) “which annually produces over 3 million technology cards”. The FIPS 201-compliant printer was chosen for [...]
