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14th Annual Government Technology Conference Awards Fargo Electronics “Exhibitor Best Solution”
AUSTIN
(January 29, 2003) -- The 14th Annual Government Technology Conference
(GTC Southwest) has awarded Fargo Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq:FRGO) an
“Exhibitor Best Solution” certificate for its work with the City of
Jacksonville, Florida, in developing a digital photo ID badging system.
The Conference is the largest technology conference for state and local
government, and delivers educational programs addressing important
policy, management and technology issues facing government today.
In the Fargo Best Solution cited by the conference, the installation of
a new Human Resources Information System gave city officials in
Jacksonville an opportunity to create city-wide standard photo
identification badges for their employees, thus improving their
security system. More than 5,000 new employee, vendor, and volunteer
identification badges have been created since last year with a Fargo
DTC520 Card Printer/Encoder.
Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Fargo card printer/encoders create
personalized plastic identification cards complete with digital images
and text, lamination, and electronically encoded information.
Personalized identification cards provide physical, information, and
transaction security for a wide variety of local, state and national
government applications. Fargo will be exhibiting a Fargo HDP820-LC
card printer/encoder and a DTC515 card printer in Booth 735 at the
Conference here January 29-31.
Fargo’s most highly featured printer/encoder, the HDP820 can be ordered
with a complete lamination module from the manufacturer (the
HDP820-LC), or be upgraded with the addition of a lamination module in
the field at a later date. The DTC515 prints single-sided, edge-to-edge
on standard CR-80 cards, and its patented dual input hopper design
holds 200 of the same card or 100 of two different cards.
“The ability to expand printer capabilities in the future is a great
insurance policy against obsolescence. From now on, when an end user
with a Fargo HDP820 wants to upgrade security and durability by
applying an overlaminate to their cards, there is no need to dispose of
their current printer,” said Joseph Wright, Fargo’s Director of Product
Marketing - Hardware. “After a call to their authorized Fargo Solution
Provider, a lamination module will be readily available and easy to
install. By allowing end users and system integrators to quickly (under
half an hour) upgrade these printer/encoders with lamination
capabilities, Fargo again proves its innovative leadership.”
Featuring a new, enhanced lamination engine, the Fargo Card Lamination
Module applies overlaminate to the front and/or back of virtually any
card, all in the same pass as printing and encoding. The module has
dedicated controls for easier direct lamination control, a Reject Card
Hopper that separates miscoded and misprinted cards, and a card
lamination flattener to reduce card bowing.
Fargo’s HDP820 is the ultimate solution for high-end and critical
security card applications. Using Fargo’s High Definition Printing™
(HDP®) technology, the HDP820 produces outstanding print quality,
edge-to-edge, on CR-80, CR-90 and CR-100 cards. It also prints on cards
that are extra thick or have irregular surfaces, such as clamshell
proximity cards or smart cards.
Everything about the compact DTC500 Series is user-friendly, including
setup and maintenance. The DTC500 Series features plug-and-print setup,
and simple, straightforward operation. Installation is easy with the
interactive printer-driver installer CD, and if end users need
assistance, a “Help” button on the SmartScreen™ LCD Control Panel and a
multimedia Online User’s Guide make it easy to get answers at any time.
With its powerful print engine and 4MB of RAM, the DTC500 Series can
breeze through 133 color cards, or over 500 monochrome cards, per hour.
The HDP820-LC and DTC515 both accommodate Fargo’s internal E-Card
Docking Station, with one, two, or three e-card encoders, which permits
the printer/encoder to read or encode contact smart cards, contactless
smart cards, proximity cards and mag stripe cards, and manages emerging
electronic card technologies such as:
-- ISO 7816 contact smart chips – the world’s most commonly used contact smart card standard (read and write);
-- MifareÒ contactless smart chips (read and write); and
-- HID proximity (“prox”) cards (read-only).
Fargo’s patented PolyGuard™ Overlaminates provide up to 25 times more
protection from abrasion, color fading and dye-migration than standard
protective overlays. A polyester “patch,” available in a 0.6 mil or a
1.0 mil version, is applied over a printed card in the lamination
station. It not only makes card designs tamper-resistant, but it also
protects printed cards from abrasion and fading. For additional card
security, Fargo offers generic or custom holographic overlaminates to
help protect against the threat of counterfeiting, and make an end
user’s entire ID system and facility more secure.
For more information on emerging identification card security
technologies, contact your Fargo Solution Provider, or visit
http://www.fargo.com.
About Fargo
Fargo Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRGO) is the world’s leader in
innovative technologies for desktop plastic card personalization
systems. Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Fargo is the only
manufacturer to offer three distinct technologies in printing systems –
High Definition Printing™ (reverse image), traditional Direct-to-Card
printing (dye-sublimation), and CardJet Printing™ technology (inkjet) –
to personalize plastic identification cards, complete with digital
images and text, lamination, and electronically encoded information.
Personalized identification cards provide physical, information, and
transaction security for a wide variety of applications including
Corporations, National IDs, Drivers’ Licenses, Universities, Schools,
Government Installations, Transportation, Casinos, Health Care
Facilities, E-commerce, Retail Stores, Correctional Institutions,
Associations, Sports Events and Recreation Sites. More than 70,000
Fargo systems have been sold in the U.S. and over 80 other countries.
For more information, visit Fargo’s Web site at http://www.fargo.com.
Fargo Case Study: City of Jacksonville, Florida
Standard Identification Badges Improve Security
City officials in Jacksonville, Florida, have always placed a high
premium on security, but the installation of a new Human Resources
Information System gave them an opportunity to create a city-wide
standard photo identification badges for their employees, thus taking
their security system up another notch.
The Oracle Human Resources Information System, a database of employee
information, would enable the City of Jacksonville to make strategic
decisions based on statistics. As part of their new system, employee
photos and new employee numbers were being captured. What better time
to create new photo ID badges?
“In the past, employee badge designs either varied or didn’t exist,
depending on where an employee worked,” said Bill Marshall, manager of
personnel services for the city. “That made it more difficult to
enforce security – something that’s definitely on everyone’s mind today
in light of recent events.” Previously, it was possible for individuals
with no identification to walk through the Jacksonville City Hall.
Today that’s not true.
The Fargo Solution
More than 5,000 new employee, vendor, and volunteer identification
badges have been created since January 2002, with the FARGO DTC520 Card
Printer/Encoder. Except for a few areas, which continue to need
separate identification materials, all city employees now wear a
standard identification badge.
The double-sided cards pack a lot of information. In addition to an
employee photo and number, it includes a logo of the City of
Jacksonville, the city’s mission statement, and information on the
Sterling Award. (Jacksonville won the Governor’s Sterling Award for
significant improvement and achievement of performance excellence in
2001. This prestigious award, based on the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria
for Performance Excellence, has only been given to one other city since
its creation in 1992, and Jacksonville officials are rightfully proud.)
A bar code and magnetic stripe on the back of the card allow
flexibility for future upgrades to the city’s security system, which
may include bar code readers in the months ahead, according to
Marshall. “We may implement controlled access,” he said, “and we wanted
the badges to be able to accommodate that option.”
The FARGO DTC520 works in conjunction with a Kodak digital video camera
and an ID software, according to Jack Bobeck, salesman with Filing
Source, a FARGO Solution Provider.
“We’ve been very happy with the system,” added Marshall. “It is fast,
it is reliable, and the colors don’t smudge. We like being able to work
with a digitized photo, and we believe that the system is flexible
enough to meet our needs going into the future.”
In January 2003, the 14th Annual Government Technology Conference (GTC
Southwest) awarded Fargo Electronics, Inc. an “Exhibitor Best Solution”
certificate for its work with the City of Jacksonville, Florida. The
Conference is the largest technology conference for state and local
government, and delivers educational programs addressing important
policy, management and technology issues facing government today.
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