Card Printer Applications

Card Printer Applications

Employee or Staff ID

You can identify employees and visitors by using standard or oversized photo ID cards to verify identities; proximity or smart cards to grant access to unattended building entries; and bar codes or magnetic stripe cards for accurate time and attendance tracking and more. Ahearn & Soper can integrate a complete card personalization system into your company's security system.

Print bring, true-color digital photographs and company logos on ID cards for a polished corporate image. Differentiate between employee groups, departments or visitors by using different colored cards. Encode and personalize smart cards with smooth, over-the-edge printing. Apply a customized holographic over-laminate for a more secure, durable ID card.

Ahearn & Soper ID Card Printers and Systems are ideal for:

• Employee ID cards
• Visitor ID badges
• Cash-free cafeteria and gift shop purchases
• Corporate credit union account cards
• Registration processing and record keeping
• Employee time and attendance tracking
• Access Control for buildings, garages, and secured areas

Student ID

With today's increased security and safety issues on everyone's mind, one question we all need to address is "How can we make our schools safer?"

As a school or college administrator, you face many challenges, including stretching budgets, increasing efficiency and improving safety. One way to meet all of these challenges is through implementation of student, faculty and visitor IDs. Ahearn & Soper can help you maximize the benefits of a card personalization system in your school today.

Print student IDs on site in seconds while they wait; identify anyone in your building at a glance with an ID card, control unattended entrances to school or campus buildings with magnetic stripe cards and card readers.

Ahearn & Super ID Card Printers and Systems are ideal for:

• Student, staff and visitor ID Badges or Photo ID Cards
• Controlled entries to your entire campus or school
• Registration processes/record keeping
• Meal programs
• Library/bookstore use - quick check-out using student IDs
• Equipment check-out - physical education or extra curricular activity equipment usage tracked
• Activity passes - print fun, colourful tickets for plays, dances and sporting events
• Fundraising activities - print coupons for use at participating area merchants
• Vending machine purchases - store cash on magnetic stripe cards
• ATM cards - link student ID card to area bank ATM machines

Visitor ID

In today's social climate all markets are concerned with issues of security. The best way to identify unknown visitors to your organization is by using Visitor ID Badges.

Registered visitors and guests can be distinguished from employees, students or members by using standard or oversized ID cards to verify identities; proximity or smart cards can grant access to unattended building entries; cards with bar code can be used for tracking purposes and more. Ahearn & Soper can integrate a complete card personalization system to help solve these challenges and make your facility's security top-notch.

Ahearn & Soper ID Card Printers and Systems are idea for:

• Visitor or guest ID cards
• Registration processes/record keeping
• Access control for buildings, garages, and secured areas

Season Pass or Membership

In the recreation and hospitality industry, your customers come to play, to rest or to explore.

With a Season Pass or Membership card system from Ahearn & Soper, you can print bright, colourful, photo season passes and event tickets. Personalize membership cards with guests' names and frequent visitor numbers. Lighten your customers' loads, as you enable them to slip a card into their pockets and gain access to guest amenity areas, charge purchases in your retail outlets and restaurants, and rack up loyalty points that encourage them to come back for more!

Ahearn & Soper ID Card Printers and Systems are ideal for:

• Season passes with stored value for use from year to year (if applicable)
• Frequent guest loyalty or membership cards
• Rapid front desk registration
• Cash-free purchases in on-site restaurants, amusement parks and retail outlets
• Accurate guest billing
• Controlled access to guest amenity areas such as pool and VIP clubs.

Customer Loyalty Cards

The battle for consumer spending and customer loyalty can be greatly influenced by a retail or loyalty card program

Attractive, high-quality cards will allow you to capitalize on one-to-one marketing opportunities, while multi-application smart cards will allow you to strengthen ongoing relationships with your best customers. Ahearn & Soper can help you implement these strategies and extract the greatest possible value from them.

Your customers are receiving a barrage of emails, e-coupons and direct mail messages aimed at winning their business and taking profits away from you. Meanwhile, database-marketing companies are tracking their buying habits and selling their information to your competitors. Your competition is trying to sway your customers away from you. Why not persuade them to stay with you by giving them a loyalty, points or discount card? Showing appreciation will go a long way toward strengthening your relationship.

Acknowledge frequent visits and award points to your customers according to their level of spending in your business. Magnetic stripe and smart card technology can benefit both you and your customers by offering them product discounts or points toward merchandise, and by registering your customers, you can record valuable data about their buying preferences at the same time. Tailor your sales and marketing efforts directly to your customers' needs. Build loyalty and watch your business grow!

Ahearn & Soper ID Card Printers and Systems are ideal for:

• Frequent customer loyalty cards
• On-site program registration
• Paperless coupons and promotions
• Instant loyalty account balance reporting
• Instant recognition of VIP customers