ID Badge printing In-house or external?

[maark]

We make our own with evolis for catering(transact from AMI), door access and printing. So many get lost it would be difficult otherwise.

[FishCustard]

There's an API with iSAMS that spits out an XML file with all the pupil details in, and another one which gives you a zip containing the photo thumbnails named by pupilID. As it's part of a larger system there's a PHP script running on a cron job which downloads the data/photos and crunches through it once a day, dumping it out into mysql.

 

Then the card printing program (done in C#) just pulls the list of pupils out of mysql, sticks them in a tree so i can click an individual one, and on the fly knocks up an A4 sized PNG with their name, photo, and (pupilID encoded into a barcode). Then prints this set to "fit to page". (I used to create the pass image the correct size but it printed blurred, making the image A4 then resizing down it's nice and clear).

 

Other feature is bulk print, you just paste a list of pupil IDs into a box and it works through them

 

That sounds like my kind of system. Nice work! I love those systems where, once you've built it, you can just feed it a bunch of input and it'll just do everything. My user creation script is a bit like that - sets up all the things they could need.

[Danp]

This is the one we bought and use https://www.digitalid.co.uk/product/idp-smart-51-card-printer-2445

[DGardiner]

This is the one we bought and use https://www.digitalid.co.uk/product/idp-smart-51-card-printer-2445

 

same as ours, i use cardpresso to make the badges though saves alot of time