Industries that Use Card Printers

Industries that Use Card Printers

Corporations

Security has become an increasingly large issue for businesses big and small alike. The best way to identify your work force is by using ID Cards.

Corporations can identify employees and visitors by using standard or oversized photo ID badges 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 to help solve these challenges and make your facility's security top notch.

Link your employee database with your card printer and print bright, true-color digital photographs and company logos on ID badges for a polished corporate image.

Our systems can also manage data related to Time & Attendance and Employee Productivity, preventing intangible losses, such as time and efficiency. The system can report what time an associate entered the building before punching in, how many times an employee went past a point of entry for a smoke break or unauthorized time-off and can alert security if someone attempts to enter before his or her assigned time or day.

Financial Institutions

In a fast paced world, you can satisfy your customers instantly by providing them with a personalized Credit, Debit or ATM Card while they wait.

You can put high-quality credit, debit and ATM cards in your customers' hands instantly with our card personalization system. Ahearn & Soper offers affordable, compact systems, ideal for banks, savings and loans, credit unions, retailers and other organizations that want to improve customer service and strengthen customer loyalty. Issuing ready-to-use financial cards on the spot eliminates the expense and risks associated with personalized mailing. Customers receive their cards and can begin using your services immediately.

These easy-to-use, flexible and affordable systems are designed to help financial institutions cut costs and leverage the full potential of their card and loyalty programs. With instantly issued cards, you have the opportunity to discuss credit, debit or ATM programs with customers immediately. You can explain benefits right then and there, as well as answer any questions.

Ahearn & Soper's flexible systems have several unique security functions, including a user defined password, magnetic stripe or smart card technology. Whatever your security preference, we have a solution that fits your needs.

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

• Branch Offices of Banks or Credit Unions replacing Credit, Debit or ATM cards on the spot
• Retail Chain Credit or Loyalty Cards
• Corporate Credit Union Account Cards
• Instant Personalized Credit Cards

Health Care Institutions

In today's health care industry, ensuring the safety of patients, staff and volunteers is a primary concern. A flexible, on-site card system that will produce photo IDs in a matter of minutes is just what the doctor ordered?

Hospitals, Health facilities and Care facilities face the challenges of correctly identifying and tracking patients, visitors, volunteers and staff and controlling entries to buildings. Ahearn & Soper experts offer complete card personalization systems to help solve these challenges - and more!

A photo identification card or health plan membership card is your key to visually verifying a plan member at a health or care facility. A magnetic stripe card encoded with social security and insurance identification numbers tracks all facility visits and ensures accurate billing. A proximity antenna embedded in a plastic card can be programmed to allow authorized health care personnel access to controlled areas in your buildings

Take your IDs into the cafeteria line and let bar codes help deduct lunch funds from accounts. You can even create fun, colorful IDs for special events or fund-raising projects. Link your database with your card printer and print bright, true-colour digital photographs and hospital, health or care facility logos on ID badges for a professional look. Print IDs on site in seconds while they wait and identify anyone in your building at a glance with an ID badge. Differentiate between patients, visitors and staff by using different coloured cards. Encode and personalize smart cards with smooth, over-the-edge printing. Apply a customized holographic overlaminate for a more secure, durable card. Our systems can also manage data related to Time and Attendance.

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

• Health Plan or Care Facility membership cards
• Rapid patient registration processes
• Accurate record keeping/patient billing
• Cash-free cafeteria and gift shop purchases
• Employee time and attendance tracking
• Employee photo ID badges
• Access Control

Educational Institutions

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, college or university 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 or campus buildings with magnetic stripe cards and card readers.

Take your student IDs into the cafeteria line and library and let bar codes help deduct lunch funds from accounts and check out books. You can even create fun, colourful student IDs for special events or fundraising projects. Link your database with your card printer and print bright, true-colour digital photographs and school logos on ID badges for a professional look. Differentiate between students, faculty and visitors by using different coloured cards. Encode and personalize smart cards with smooth, over-the-edge printing. Apply a customized holographic over-laminate for a more secure, durable ID badge. Our systems can also manage data related to Time and Attendance.

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

• Student, staff and visitor 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 extracurricular 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

Casinos

To attract players and build customer loyalty, you need to project a professional image and provide VIP treatment for repeat customers.

One way to register your patrons a keep players coming back is to reward them with glossy, personalized membership or points cards. Acknowledge frequent visits and award special privileges to your customers according to their level of spending. You can also distinguish between different player categories by using different coloured cards.

Photo ID can be used to identify your employees; proximity or smart cards to grant access to unattended building entries; and bar codes or magnetic stripe cards for accurate time and attendance and productivity tracking.

Ahearn & Soper can integrate a complete card personalization system to help solve these challenges and more! Print loyalty cards or player points cards, in a matter of seconds while your players wait. Provide immediate satisfaction and appropriately thank the frequent player so they keep coming back!

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

• Frequent player loyalty cards
• Gaming tour members registration cards
• Gift cards for special patrons
• Cash-free purchases in on-site restaurants and retail outlets
• Accurate guest billing
• Employee photo ID badges
• Access Control

Recreation & Health Clubs

Old fashioned laminate membership cards are for amateurs!  Present a professional image and prevent profit losses with Photo ID Badges for your Health Club or Recreational Facility.

Whether you manage a large commercial health club, a YMCA, a small racquet club or any type of fitness facility, you have many different options available to you for badging your members and authorizing their use of your facilities. You may choose to capture their fingerprints or hand pattern and identify them with biometrics software. You may issue them a unique bar code, and link it to the digital photograph you take of them along with their personal information. Whichever technology you choose to help you identify your membership pool and manage your back office, Ahearn & Soper can deliver what your customers need for fast, easy registration and daily check-in -- a thin, glossy, professional-looking health club membership card.

Ahearn & Soper's expert system integrators can help you maximize the benefits of a card personalization system in your health club or recreation facility today. Print membership cards on-site while new members wait, create staff cards to identify employees, use magnetic stripe cards to charge purchases in your juice bar or pro shop. Even control unattended entrances to buildings with magnetic strip cards.

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

• Membership, visitor and staff ID cards or photo ID badges
• Secure doors on unattended building entrances
• Rapid registration process, accurate record-keeping and billing
• Charging food in club restaurant and merchandise in pro shop
• Equipment check-out - rent or check out tennis racquets and basketballs and other equipment
  
  

Retail

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