Parking Passes - for your College or University

Well folks - it's about that time again... time for back to school shopping!

If you are part of a University or College, and are in need of parking passes for your student body and staff, look no further than Laminex. We are a complete supplier of printed secure passes and labels to help you secure your campus today!

View our assortment of parking passes in our new online catalog.

CornCard USA ready for market

"It sounds corny to some, but the latest card en route to consumers’ wallets promises the same durability of traditional petroleum-based (PVC) cards without using up one of Earth’s most valuable and dwindling resources … oil." - Marisa Torrieri, SecureIDNews

Several large card manufacturers in the market have big plans for the rollout of a "new" alternative to PVC blanks. CornCard USA is the brand name for Arthur Blank Co's (ABCO) new corn-based card product. The product contains no PVC, and does not release toxins when burned or recycled.

Laminex currently offers several environmentally friendly alternatives to standard plain PVC card stock. Two alternatives that perform very well are the Bio-PVC (biodegradable plastic material) and the 100% recycled PVC card. Corn-based cards are perfect for pre-printed gift cards or for customers who only need to surface print with monochrome resins. Early versions of the corn-based cards preformed poorly on YMC dye sublimation printers, but later versions of the card are proving to be better ink substrates. That said, retransfer technology printers like the Zebra ZXP-8 are making that early finding into a nonissue. For more information on our card materials and printer products, please visit the Laminex website.

Corn-based cards are showing up every day in the gift card market. Although every customer is not asking for a suitable alternative to PVC, when a large "top 50" company finally does, the market will take notice. If environmental responsibility doesn't turn the tide, then oil prices may eventually drive a change. Currently, corn based card products cost roughly 10% more than PVC based offerings. If that gap shrinks to 2-5% we may have a real race on our hands.

Are you ready for some football?

Our new football shaped parking hang tag is pretty sweet. Let us know if you would like a sample sent your way. See some ideas and product samples in the CredentialExpress catalog here.

Inquiries: ASI 47204  /  PPAI 350594

New Electronic ID Catalog from Laminex

Introducing the new electronic catalog for ID Accessories and Supplies from Laminex:
The Good IDeas Catalog 2010.
















Feel free to email us if you you would like a hard copy for yourself. It's full of good IDeas!

Chuck that paper logbook!

If you have ever signed in to a paper log book in a company's front lobby, you know the drill. Name, time/date, reason for your visit, etc...  This information seldom gets a second look once you are signed in.

What if you could do it all electronically? What if you could pull metrics and view who is currently in the building in real-time? This is nothing new in the security world, but it is certainly easy for any company to add this to their front lobby with Jolly's new version of Lobby Track visitor management software.

Features include:

• Active Directory integration
• Email notification
• Driver License scanning option

The software is shipping now, and you can download a free trial here. Let Laminex know if we can help you with this innovative way to add security and increase the speed of visitors through your lobby today.

Read more here...

Rigid Multi-Card Badge Holder

Print a 3 color logo on the back of a rigid plastic badge holder? Sure...why not?!

National ID a matter of time?

A nationwide identification system is already current law, but it's being put on hold due to privacy, identity theft, and other concerns from almost half of the states in the country, Louisiana included, according to state representative Brett Geymann.
Geymann spoke to the League of Women Voters on Friday about the Real ID system, as well as the pared down Pass ID system.

"Essentially, to summarize what Real ID does, is it takes your driver's license, and it puts standard minimum requirements on that driver's license through all 50 states. Essentially, all our licenses would be the same," Geymann said. "Under this program, your information is only as secure as 50 other state's systems. That's a lot of points for thieves to steal information." (Click here for full story)

We say: It's interesting that the level of security that we want in this country seems to be related to the current level of terrorist threat.