ID Badge Options
Security Seal
Add a holographic or hologram-like seal to support visual badge authentication. Higher-security designs may also incorporate ultraviolet inks, microprinting, or guilloché patterns.
Slot Punch
Add an approved slot punch for direct attachment to clips, reels, or lanyards. Confirm compatibility with the artwork, laminate, card construction, and embedded technology. Learn more.
Lamination and DURAbadge™
Protect printed surfaces with an approved 1-mil overlaminate. DURAbadge™ combines required 60% PVC/40% PET composite stock with lamination and includes a two-year limited durability warranty beginning on the original ship date.
Logo
Use approved, production-quality logos and graphics to preserve clarity, proportions, and brand consistency.
Cardholder Data
Define and approve each displayed field, including its font, size, color, alignment, placement, and long-value behavior.
60% PVC/40% PET Composite Cards
Use composite stock for laminated badges to improve resistance to cracking. Composite construction is required for DURAbadge™.
Photograph
Use a current, properly cropped cardholder photograph to support quick visual identity verification. A photograph does not authenticate the credential by itself.
Color Coding
Use approved design colors and assignment rules to distinguish badge types at a glance. Do not color-code with fabric photo backdrops; lighting, capture, and printing variations can change the color.
Card Statement
Use the badge back for approved instructions, contact information, organizational values, or other useful content when appropriate. Learn more.
Numbering
Print a unique or consecutive number when personnel need a quick reference to the badge record, barcode, or encoded value.
Foil Stamping
Add metallic foil to custom factory-printed membership, loyalty, or payment cards for a distinctive premium appearance.
Embossing and Tipping
Use raised, color-tipped characters when a manual card imprinter must transfer cardholder data onto a paper form. This requires specialty factory personalization.
Orientation
Choose portrait or landscape based on readability, photograph and field layout, wearing method, attachment, and technology use. Landscape often provides more room for long names and larger type, while portrait emphasizes the photograph and vertical display. Confirm compatibility with the exact swipe, insertion, slot, and reader requirements before approval.
Sort, Bundle, and Ship
After printing, We Print badges receive a production-quality review and are sorted, bundled, packaged, and shipped according to the approved project instructions. Provide the required sort order, bundle labels, quantities, delivery locations, and recipient information before production. Procure a Production Print Preview (P3) when the complete population and production order must be reviewed and guaranteed.
ID Badge Technology
We provide many options when it comes to high-quality ID badge technology. With technology like bar codes, magnetic stripes, virtual ID cards, and other platforms, your information is kept safe and completely confidential.
ID Badge Technologies and Services We Offer
Veonics® Virtual ID (vID) – Publishes a tokenized, mobile-friendly Virtual ID linked to an approved Veonics® Portal record and design.
Barcodes and QR Codes – Encode approved identifiers or values for scanning into designated applications. Security depends on the displayed data and the system’s validation controls.
Magnetic Stripe – High-coercivity (HiCo) stripes provide durable, low-cost track encoding. Security depends on the encoded data and receiving system—not the stripe alone.
Proximity RFID – 125 kHz proximity credentials support convenient access control, time and attendance, and other reader applications. Exact formats, codes, numbering, and readers must be confirmed.
Contactless Smart Cards – HID iCLASS®, HID Seos®, MIFARE® Classic, and MIFARE® DESFire® are distinct 13.56 MHz technology families with different security, encoding, and reader requirements.
Authorized Credential Duplication or Cloning – When authorized and technically supported, reproduce an existing credential identifier on an approved replacement badge. Compatibility and system testing are required.
Visible and Encoded Numbering – Print or encode unique or consecutive values using the approved format, starting value, range, and system requirements.
Technology and security depend on the complete credential, encoding, reader, software, and system configuration. Complete system-specific discovery, testing, and approval before production.
ID Badge Technology Testing
Technology testing is required whenever a badge must be read, scanned, encoded, enrolled, or used by a customer system. Identify every applicable access-control, time-and-attendance, tracking, point-of-sale, logical-access, or other system, then provide its technology, credential specifications, readers, software, locations, system owner, and supporting integrator.
Using the confirmed specifications, eXpress badging® prepares applicable test samples and a separate testing form for each system. The customer enrolls and tests the samples, documents the results, resolves failures, and obtains an authorized signature on every required form before production.
A badge that works in one system is not automatically approved for another—even when both use the same technology.
Review ID Badge Technology Discovery, Testing, and Approval, or contact us for assistance.
Other ID Badge Options and Services
Make your nametags, membership and loyalty cards pop with metallic or colored ID card media.
Reduce the speed of badge fading due to sun and heat exposure with this feature.
