Bling-Bling

Yeah, it's pretty cool to see ASI (Advertising Specialty Institute) feature our glitter lanyards in Advantages Magazine and on their web site. The folks at The PPAI Expo in Las Vegas last week loved them, too. Just let us know when you are ready for your sample and pricing!

Smart Card White Hats are Successful Again

Karsten Nohl and Henryk Plötz, the team of researchers who initially pointed out security flaws in several early 13.56 smart cards, are once again proving their mettle by cloning the latest secure iteration of a card from Legic.

The team was able to intercept "secure" transmissions between a reader emulator and the cards, thus allowing them to generate more "master" cards and child cards which would allow access to buildings, payments, and authenticate user ID's.

13.56 MHz cards are readable by commercially available scanners. Some of which are fairly inexpensive, and are readily available to the public. While the benefits are great, the risks are inherent when dealing with contactless cards.

We say: Rest assured your 13.56 smart cards, like CAC, PIV, TWIC, and FRAC will be safe from attack when work inside a SkimSAFE badge holder. Just dock the card to protect it, and slide it slightly downward with one hand to present the card to access control readers. It's a small investment in your security. Read more...

Zooming into the future

It is a pleasure to see our friend, Noleen Zasman, president of ZOOMcatalog, featured in this month's Promotional Products Business magazine. Noleen and her team are responsible for the two digital catalogs on our CredentialExpress web site. We love the work they do. By the way, thanks to ZOOMcatalog our products catalogs will have some new features in 2010 that you will love.

Colorado ski resort uses RFID to enhance customer experience

Aspen Skiing plans to expand its deployment of radio frequency identification technology by embedding RFID in all daily lift tickets on is four Colorado mountain resorts, according to Computer World.

Last winter Aspen Skiing implemented RFID tags in its customers’ season passes and installed automated access gates at the resorts to streamline and enhance customers’ experience. (more here)

We say: Using RFID in daily lift tickets, season passes (photo ID cards), and developing smart apps is a sound technology investment and inexpensive on a per-pass basis. We see this as a growing trend for the future.

Gratitude

This year has been different for many companies across this country. Over the holiday season our staff has been listing those things for which we express gratitude.

We thought you may enjoy this short movie which expresses many of those things.

Merry Christmas from the Laminex Family of Companies. We look forward to what 2010 brings for all of us.

RFID Zapper

This badass looking weapon won’t hurt a fly – but it will kill any RFID tag you point it at. The Rfiddler gun can be aimed at unsuspecting RFID tags and destroy their data by simply overloading the tags with a very strong electromagnetic field. (click here for the whole enchilada)

We say: Are you more interested in SkimSAFE now?

ZXP 8 is the Fastest Retransfer Card Printer, Ever!

It's Here... and it's Lightning Fast! (ZXP-8 Prints 170 to 190 Cards Per Hour)

With Zebra's innovative ZXP Series 8™ retransfer card printers, you can create on-demand cards with superior, near-photo-quality images and print resolution that meet your strictest requirements. And do it with best-in-class throughput to enhance your efficiency, flexibility, and functionality via the wide variety of encoder options to match your needs. This printer line promises high reliability to reduce total cost of ownership, and easy system integration for fast ROI.

The Laminex Family of Companies is your full-line source for Zebra card printers, supplies, and factory-authorized service. We have been and continue to be the most complete source for all of your plastic card printing needs. Call or click today to reach a friendly representative at one of our three locations.

Interested in this new printer? See more details on our ZXP-8 Pages or our Zebra Microsite.

Call Laminex at (800) 438-8850 today and ask our friendly representatives about the new ZXP line of printers.