Issue IV
June/July, 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Case in Point
Did you know?
IC Contact and Contactless Encoding
Team NiSCA Extends ExchangeIt Software Deal.
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Case in point
Nisca's durability has always been a topic of conversation around the trade show booths at ISC West, ASIS, and etc.  End user’s talk about it, resellers commiserate about the trade-off between reliability and cost per card.  So let’s really look at a case in point to see if the Nisca printer’s reliability paid off in the long run for the end user and for the reseller.

Case in point, the United Nations (UNOPS) opened a tender for 75 printers and laminators to produce 2 million badges for refugees fleeing from Afghanistan into Pakistan.  The UN organization selected the Nisca PR5300 and PR5310 printers with a PR5302 laminator to do the job.  The cards were being produced in many different areas across the country and in many cases the printers were being operated in tents.  Over the period of five months, the project was completed and the printers performed without any significant problems.   In all, 2 million cards were printed and laminated and the total cost of parts that Nisca covered under warranty was $3,444.00 (list price). That comes to a mere $0.0017 per card costs of maintaining the printer and laminators.

In this case, the Nisca exceeded the expectations of the customer so much that they upgraded the PR5310s with MiFARE encoders and used the printers again in 2008 for another project.

 

  
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Did you know?
Did you know that Nisca now offers ultra violet resistant 1mil lamination patch material? Dye-sublimation ink has always had an inherent problem of fading under the sunlight. In most cases standard 1mil patch laminate material will protect the card to a point, but in our severe laboratory tests the industry standard 1mil patch clean laminate shows “significant” fading over a 7 day period under a Xenon Arc apparatus; see exhibit A.

To beat the sun, Nisca has developed an ultra violet blocking 1mil clear material that greatly reduces fading. Under the same 7 day conditions, the new UV Blocking material shows near to zero changes in color density; see exhibit B.

So if your customers demand brilliant card images for the life of their cards, talk to your Nisca sales representative about the new UV blocking laminate from Team Nisca.





Our Recent Exposure in Media:
  1. Ventas de Seguridad, March Directory, ad and showcase
  2. SIA New Product Showcase at www.SIANPS.com
  3. Security Management, March 2008, ad and PR-C101 showcase p.142 , p157
  4. Security Products, March 2008, advertisement p.109, New Product p.36
  5. Security Dealer & Integrator March 2008 pg. 167
  6. Security, March 2008, advertisement and showcase
  7. Security Systems News, March New Product directory, p.50, PR-C101 showcase
  8. re: ID, Spring 2008, p.37 advertisement PR-C101.
  9. Security Technology and Design April 2008
  10. Security Products April 2008 ph. 106
  11. Security Management, April, p.118 Product Showcase, p.137 ad, p.134-Marketplace PR-C101
  12. Secure ID News, May, New Product http://www.secureidnews.com/
  13. Security Products website April-May, New Products listing http://www.secprodonline.com/
  14. European Card Review Buyer’s Guide 2007-2008, listing plus ad
  15. Security Europe & Middle East 2008 Catalogue, 2 ads, p59 and p 221
  16. Security Magazine news Vol. 3 Issue 13, PR-C101 product case
  17. Security Magazine online, home page, Breaking news.
 

IC Contact and Contactless Encoding
The Nisca PR5310, PR5350, and soon the PR-C101 offer options for MiFARE, DESFire, iCLASS, and IC Contact chip encoding.  The unique feature that the Nisca solution provides is that all of these card technology encoders/readers are available in one simple to install unit.  Coming in summer 2008, if you purchase a Nisca with a card encoder, the encoder will have the capability to speak to contact or contactless cards. 

The design is quite simple and extremely durable.  As you can image, a contact chip encoder obviously makes contact with the card so that power and data can be transmitted.  With our competitors, their contact solutions have to be replaced after 10,000 to 15,000 insertions and as they fail, you run the risk of card and ink waste.   The Nisca contact solution has been tested to over 200,000 insertions.  Meaning that the Nisca solution is optimal not only for doing inline encoding during printing, but also acting as a card priming encoder where there is no printing done on the card.

The Nisca SDK (software development kit) provides all the details in order to use the inline encoding functions and it must be integrated by badging or access control software makers in order to work properly.  The following software providers are currently supporting the Nisca SDK and will support your inline encoding projects: ExchangeIt, ImageWare, Lenel, NFive, ScreenCheck, SmartCentric, and Softwarehouse.

Please contact your Nisca sales representative if you have any questions about card technology or our software partners.

Team NiSCA Extends ExchangeIt Software Deal
Team NiSCA announced a partnership with ExchangeIT of the Netherlands to supply a Nisca Edition entry-level software package that will be bundled with the new PR-C101 printer at ASIS 2007. The response has been tremendous, so much so that Team NiSCA will begin to provide the CardExchange Entry NiSCA Edition with every printer sold.

The CardExchange® Entry - Nisca Edition utilizes a “Four Click” interface that affords the end-user a powerful yet easy to use ID-card production solution. It also includes a direct-connect link to MS Excel and CSV (Comma Separated) files that allows you to add and edit records in MS Excel files and add records to the CSV files. Embedded within this product is the WYSIWYG CardExchange Designer which provides advanced card design functionality along with a user-friendly interface that allows the client to quickly design, modify and manage multiple ID-card layouts.

As the needs of an organization change so does this software. The Entry edition can be easily upgraded to the Premium or Ultimate version and also allows for additional functionality with Plug-in Modules such as Auto Print Server, DB2, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, multiple databases connection, and smart card encoding.

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