Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Card Printers Improve the Printing Process

Submitted By: William F. GabrielIsnare.com
(Computers and Technology)
The card printers of today are vastly different from the printers of yesterday. Technology has allowed for these printers to offer numerous options that were once thought impossible or too expensive to produce. Modern printers have single and dual sided printing capabilities.

Identification cards can be produced in color or monochrome. Some printers offer edge to edge printing options that eliminate the useless white trim around your card.

There are also printers that offer instant lamination for the protection of your cards and still others that have Holokote imaging that makes the cards virtually tamper resistant. In addition, there are printers that can produce encoded smart cards that offer more options and features than ever before.

Although there are still those businesses and organizations that continue to outsource to third parties in order to accomplish their card printing needs; many more are crossing the information highway and implementing their very own printing process so that they can print quality cards almost instantly, on the spot and when they need them. Some people shy away from card printers because they thing they are hard to learn and operate. This is not true. Actually, the portable printer of today is very user friendly. Moments after a printer is removed from a box it can be producing excellent ID cards for the user. Other business leaders and organization leaders fear the printers are too expensive. That of course depends on the allowed budget and what features and options the user is looking for.

There are many varieties of printers on the market. Some are basic photo ID card printers without all the special features; while others are jammed pack full of options galore. Once again; if your company consists of 2 employees’; a printer may not be necessary. However, larger companies and organizations can gain an abundance of benefits from printers like the Fargo Printer for example. Fargo offers a superb line of printers designed to meet the needs of any size business. These printers vary in price and can be more cost friendly than some people think. The prospective user cannot look simply at the present when purchasing a printer. They have to look at the future savings and benefits as well. Over a years time; many identification cards may have to be produced for new employees or member and replacement cards will have to be produced as well. When outsourcing, this can get quite expensive.

Furthermore, some companies have more needs than the basic identification card. The Fargo Printer produces plenty more options for the user. Some companies want to print and encode their own identification cards for attendance monitoring purposes. Card readers can be placed at the workplace entrance and employees will have to swipe their card to punch in and out. This provides the management with attendance information that will form reports on bad attendance habits. In addition, many facilities want to utilize the access control process. Card readers are placed at the entrances of sensitive areas within the facility and employee ID cards are programmed to allow or deny entrance based on the need to know. The needs vary from company to company. The bottom line is quite simple; these printers can improve the card printing process.
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Professor Layton Nintendo Game

Submitted By: Sheena Vc
(Computers and Technology)
The professor Layton series of games the new Nintendo DS games is a puzzle video game series for the Nintendo DS and consists of three games with three more to be added in 2009/2010. Basically it is a game series one following the other. The game series was intended to build curiosity and so bring about greater demand. It made people to anxiously wait for the next series and grab it up as soon as it hits the market. It is the brainchild of Akihiro Hino who is the president and CEO of

Japanese video game developing company Level-5 based at Fukuoka and founded in 1998. After the release of Professor Layton and the Curious Village for Nintendo DS in 2007, the company undertook a lot of diversification in the product repertoire and started self funding and publishing its creations in Japan while its overseas subsidiaries distributed its games. It turned out to be a great innovation which worked out well and became a big hit.

Akihiro Hino’s childhood love for the “Mental Gymnastics” series of puzzle books which were immensely popular in Japan, were instrumental for the creation of this game series. So it is supposed to have the same impact on game followers. The captions are founded on sequel of riddles and mysteries given by the people of the towns which the prime casts visit. While it is not mandatory to crack all puzzles to continue, a minimum number have to be unraveled to progress further and for the story to continue. The puzzles are just brainteasers and so not unfathomable. In fact they are well planned and quite beautifully plotted. This is one reason it got world wide acceptance and continues to be very popular. This game series is one of the high points of DS Nintendo games.

The game is essentially a hoard of puzzles with adventures in between. The puzzles are like brain teasers and are only loosely tied to the plot although the player must unravel a certain number to progress. Hint coins are used to reveal each hint, with ten hint coins being given to each player at the commencement of the game. All the puzzles were created by Akira Tago, who is famous for his best selling Mental Gymnastics series. The Diabolical box, Curious village, The Specter’s flute are part of the Professor Layton Nintendo game series with the new Nintendo DS games. The game series have lots of good points to make it useful for even children. As always the Nintendo does not target one set of crowd to be its users but people of all age groups. So, all generation of people those are into video games find the game series quite interesting to spend their time on.

All the games in the series are compatible with Nintendo Wi-Fi connection thereby allowing the players to access the internet and solve the puzzles. The central theme characters are Professor Layton and his apprentice assistant called Luke and their exploits are the main features of the various games.
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