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Published 04 June 2025
Last Updated 04 June 2025
How Printed ID Cards Enhance Security for IT and Security Managers
At ID Card Centre, we understand how important secure identification is for IT and security managers. Professionally printed ID cards and ID badges help ensure access to buildings, departments, and systems by clearly identifying authorised personnel and visitors. Whether you're running a single office or a larger organisation, ID cards act as a barrier — helping prevent unauthorised access and making it easier to spot anyone who shouldn’t be on the premises.
With card technologies constantly advancing, businesses will need to be versatile to ensure access management prevents any security threats from occurring.
How to Print ID Cards: Our Online Professional Card Builder
Printing ID cards online is simpler than ever. Take a look at our in-depth ID card printing services page and customise your cards based on your businesses branding and requirements. Choose from a range of options including:
- Single or double-sided printing
- Standard photo identification cards - Include your personal artwork
- Advanced Encoding - Magnetic stripe, proximity smart ID cards, MIFARE Classic and DESFire, barcodes
- Holo-laminate - A protective overlay over the entire card, making it difficult to duplicate the card
- UV Elements - Printed elements onto the card that are not visible to the naked eye, only visible when exposed to UV lights
Getting Your Employee ID Cards Printed
If you regularly need to print staff ID cards, we can streamline the process. Simply send over your new ID designs and data, and we can print them onto cards, sending them straight to you when you need them.
Our call-off service allows you to pre-purchase a batch of cards and request fulfilment when needed, saving you time, money, and storage space.
Affordable Plastic ID Card Printing
With a diverse range of options for card printing, we offer affordable solutions for all businesses looking for ID cards to implement into their workplace. Whether you're a small start up or a large organisation, we provide high-quality ID cards at competitive prices to help improve workplace efficiency and enhance security by tracking access and preventing unauthorised breaches.
The Process Behind Our Printing Services
1) Products & Requirements
Customer contacts our sales team or uses our card builder, stating what cards they require.
2) Artwork Set-up
If you require personalised artwork, you can choose from our preset designs, or alternatively you can tell us exactly how you want your cards to look.
3) Processing Data
Once you have provided your artwork, we require you to send over basic personal information (name, job title, photo, etc), alongside any logos or branding that is required. Our expert bureau team will then create their designs and will send over a digital proof to ensure you're happy with the results.
If the design is approved, we will create a database template containing columns for the data that needs to be filled in.
4) Printing a Card
The bureau will then import this data into a professional software for the customer's template - If everything looks to standard, we print the design on the cards requested with either a dye-sublimation or retransfer printer, depending on the design.
5) Quality Assurance & Shipping
Once all the cards are printed, we quality check before send off. If they pass, we get them ready for dispatch, ensuring fast delivery.
If you choose to utilise our expert bureau team, they will work very closely beside you to ensure your exact requirements are met, enabling convenience, efficiency and professionalism.
Printing Enhanced ID Photo Cards and Security Cards
Depending on your brand identity and security features, we can produce essentially anything such as standard photo identification cards, or your more advanced smart cards, which can be integrated seamlessly with your access control systems.
We recommend increased security measures to businesses that store or hold vast amounts of data, however access cards are perfect for physical security, protecting your employees and visitors. Take a look at our variety of proximity cards.
If you prefer to print you own ID cards within your own environment, we also offer card printers, ranging from re-transfer to direct-to-card technologies - helping you print high-quality cards every time. This ensures steady scalability based on user convenience, so you can save money long term rather than out sourcing.
If you're still unsure with what your business requires, or you need help with integration and functionality, please don't hesitate to contact our expert team - we are more than happy to help!
