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Your ID Badge Printer Arrived. Now What?

ID Card Printer Machines

Customers are frequently so busy with their jobs that they forget that there’s a process to consider when ordering an ID card printer system. Typically, we advise our customers to order their ID card making system three to four weeks in advance. This often helps avoid any processing or shipping delays.

Believe it or not, some ID card makers are custom made, based on the features and printing requirements you provide. This will allow you to become familiar with your ID badge maker and how it functions. More importantly, it can help you better utilize the ID card software which will drive your ID badge printing.

Your ID Card Printer Arrived... Now What?
So your ID printer machine was delivered. Now what? The first thing you need to do is carefully take the printer out of the box and set it up. Please remember to keep the printer box! The reason this is extremely important is that the manufacturers have designed those boxes specifically for your ID card maker. If any warranty printer repairs need to be completed, the original factory box will be essential for transporting it.

Once you’ve set up your printer, you’ll want to run a cleaning kit through the machine and run some test ID card prints. You want to make sure that there wasn’t any damage done via delivery.

Planning is Essential
Have you thought about how you want to badge and distribute your ID cards to everyone in your organization? Having a clear, decisive plan to where and how you want to capture your employee’s photos will alleviate many, many of your headaches. Typically, a company will choose one of our digital ID cameras that will interface with our ID card software (think DMV-style). This allows you to quickly capture the employee’s photo and print the ID badge for them in a fraction of the time it would take using a regular camera.

Printing Test ID Cards
If it took you more than 10-15 minutes to design and print a card, you may be a good candidate to get some training from our professional Technical Support Team. Every organization is different in how they set up, network, and transfer information into their ID badging software. Our highly skilled, manufacturer-trained Tech Support Technicians have seen it all. They can guide you through the steps of making a fantastic impact with your unique ID security cards.

Making ID badges should be fun and simple. But you don’t know what you don’t know, right? When in doubt or when you have questions, you can rely on the expertise of our ID Professionals!

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