HID Global Celebrates 20 Years of Secure ID Card Issuance Innovation and Leadership
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Highlights:
- Company’s award-winning FARGO solutions provide ongoing advances in printing security, user convenience and smart card personalization.
- Company introduces the iCLASS SE® Encoder inside its market-leading FARGO ID card printers.
- Contributions to an improved user experience including offerings like Wi-Fi accessories for anytime/anywhere printing, and enhancements in card enrollment, issuance and management.
AUSTIN, Texas, September 30, 2014 – HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, is marking 20 years of innovation and leadership with its FARGO® line of solutions. FARGO card personalization systems were used to print some of the industry’s earliest magstripe cards and have steadily evolved to help facilitate the industry migration to more secure, contactless smart cards and a wide variety of new personalization features and capabilities. The company’s long list of industry milestones extends from some of the earliest ID card printers to breakthroughs in durability and integrated laser engraving for advanced visual security.
“HID Global, through our FARGO product line, continues to be at the forefront of the card personalization industry, including the migration from magstripe to more secure contactless smart card technology,” said Craig Sandness, vice president of product marketing, Secure Issuance, with HID Global. “As an original FARGO employee, it has been gratifying to see what we have accomplished over these past two decades. Along the way, we have contributed important secure issuance technology advances, including High Definition Printing (HDP®) for superior print quality and reliability, integrated laser engraving that makes card forgery and alteration virtually impossible, and Asure ID® software enhancements that simplify ID card template design and data entry.”
Since the
introduction of the first FARGO printer, HID Global has delivered a steady
stream of industry advances in card issuance and personalization. These
include:
1993 – Introduced the Persona® card printer, company’s first ID card printer
with inline encoding that streamlined the issuance process for magnetic stripe
cards.
1996 – Released the Cheetah IITM printer, company’s first with lamination
capabilities for dramatic increases in card durability.
1997 – Unveiled company’s first card printer with smart card encoding,
providing new capabilities and a migration path to the industry’s first
proximity cards.
1999 – Announced availability of the HDP720 ID card printer, company’s first
retransfer printer and precursor to the award-winning FARGO line of durable,
high-definition printing (HDP) solution designed specifically for smart cards.
1999 – Introduced the UltraCard® products, providing customers with the highest
quality in card stock.
1999 – Offered the increased security and personalization capabilities of using
both clear and holographic overlaminates for adding advanced visual security
elements to ID cards.
2002 – Unveiled the DTC500 Series card printer and encoder, an extremely
durable, flexible and cost-effective issuance solution that was instantly
popular with schools and universities across the U.S. along with large
government projects worldwide.
2005 – Released Asure ID personalization software, broadening its portfolio and
providing customers with increased capabilities when using FARGO printer
solutions.
2006 – FARGO is acquired by ASSA ABLOY and merged with HID Global, culminating
a long-standing relationship between the two companies and positioning HID
Global at the forefront of a rapidly-growing secure issuance market.
2006 – Announced the HDP5000 ID card printer and encoder, which achieves
award-winning status as the industry standard for ease of use and reliability
in a compact solution for premium card printing. With an attractive price
point, the HDP5000 ID card printer revolutionizes the industry by making the
superior card printing quality from retransfer technology available to the
masses. .
2007 – Unveiled the HDPii printer, designed to deliver increased security and
Europay/Mastercard/Visa (EMV) compliance while also enabling instant issuance
capabilities for banking and financial institutions.
2012 – Brought the first, truly industrial table-top printer to market with the
company’s HDP8500 card printer and encoder, which delivered increased security
while streamlining large issuance projects in the enterprise and government
markets.
2013 – Built on the success of its HDP8500 printer with the HDP8500LE,
featuring sophisticated laser engraving for increased ID card visual security.
2014 – Company’s HDP5000 wins “Best New Product” from Security Products
Magazine.
HID Global
has also steadily improved its card issuance solutions, including support for
the company’s iCLASS SE Encoder platform and Seos® credential encoding within
FARGO card printers. This latest enhancement to HID Global’s
award-winning printers now makes it incredibly easy for users to print and
encode physical access control (PACS) credentials in a single, seamless step,
further enhancing the user experience for enrolling, managing and issuing smart
cards.
About HID Global FARGO Solutions
HID Global’s FARGO secure issuance solutions provide the world’s broadest portfolio of card printers/encoders for custom card personalization, creating high-quality color photo IDs and encoding smart cards. With the industry’s first fully modular, scalable and future-proof Direct-to-Card (DTC®) and High Definition Printing (HDP®) printer portfolio, along with its complete line of visual security products and accessories, HID Global’s secure issuance solutions meet the card customization needs of small businesses, global enterprise organizations, and government agencies worldwide. In addition, HID Global offers complete card read/write interoperability for all Genuine HID® and other technology cards.
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About
HID Global
HID Global is the trusted source for innovative products, services, solutions,
and know-how related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities
for millions of customers around the world. The company’s served markets
include physical and logical access control, including strong authentication
and credential management; card printing and personalization; visitor
management systems; highly secure government and citizen ID; and identification
RFID technologies used in animal ID and industry and logistics applications.
The company’s primary brands include ActivID®, EasyLobby®, FARGO®, IdenTrust®,
LaserCard®, Lumidigm®, and HID®. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has
over 2,200 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support
more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. For more
information, visit http://www.hidglobal.com
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