If you are in the market to acquire a new photo ID acquisition software to generate and print photo ID cards, then you may be overwhelmed by the large number of offers for software and UV LED Printing System. But there is no need to be overwhelmed.

In this article we will go over the features of photo ID acquisition software and photo ID UV LED Printing System that will show you the direction in which these systems are moving. Hopefully, this will help you make sense of the information overload and enable you to make a better purchasing decision.

Photo ID systems and software are experiencing rapid growth because of the digital revolution which has been transferring paper information to digital forms over the past decades. This trend has now touched on plastic ID cards. While most ID cards were printed on paper and laminated using plastic pouches for protection as late as 15 years back, today, it is by far easier to just have the textual, graphics, and photo information print directly on a plastic ID card using specialized photo ID UV LED Printing System.

Picture ID acquisition software

You can imagine good, usable photo ID acquisition software to be and act just like a specialized version of Microsoft Word or any other graphical text editor. You will be able to import data from a file, database, and from a digital camera over the USB cable. You will be able to use templates for your photo ID cards, and store the image, text, signature, bar code, fingerprint, and, if needed, retina scan information into the database.

The major development in recent years in photo ID acquisition software has been toward making it simple to use, so just about anyone with some computer skills can use it for the office purposes. Another development was to use worldwide standards for photo acquisition from digital cameras, videocams, or scanners. This makes it possible for photo ID software to import images from a wide array of specialized hardware. Likewise, depending on the level of photo ID software, the data can either be stored on a local computer or over the network in a centralized database.

Furthermore, most modern picture ID softwares are compatible with a wide array of plastic card printers and can print and encode the text, graphics, magnetic stripes, smart cards, and RFID chips embedded in plastic cards, all at the same time.

Photo ID printing system

It is always best to match your photo ID printing system including the photo ID software with the brand of the photo ID printer that you have. However, many softwares will work with a wide variety of photo ID printers. Sometimes that is a necessity, for instance, when a company owns several photo ID printers made by different manufacturers.

So the most important issue to look for when picking a new photo ID UV LED Printing System is its compatibility with your existing photo ID printers. When checking out the compatibility, look for the specific features. If you need to encode magnetic stripes in your plastic ID cards, ask yourself, Does the photo ID printing software have the ability to encode magnetic stripes? Can it encode smart cards and contactless smart cards? Can it program RFID (radio frequency ID) cards? In rare cases, when you are concerned with biometric data, ask yourself whether the photo ID software that you are looking at can handle a sufficiently high amount of data such as fingerprint data or retinal scans that need to be encoded in the smart card on the plastic ID card.