In an era where security concerns are paramount, educational institutions must be vigilant in safeguarding their students, staff, and premises. One potential vulnerability lies in the combination of proximity access cards and photo ID badges. This article explores the dangers associated with staff members keeping these cards together and emphasises the importance of making informed decisions when ordering employee photo ID cards.

A quick demonstration video of the capabilities of the laser marking service that we can use for logos onto products and product parts.

Recently we've had the opportunity of helping with enquiries about applying laser logos to 500 ice cream making machines that had been sent to Amazon with no logo on them, as well as assisting a national computer company with laser etching their new home brand logo on the casing/ housing of 1000 laptops.

Get in touch if you'd like to discuss laser engraving and logo marking onto your products. We can help with UK built equipment as well as import stock.

Learn more about laser marking and logo etching onto products | Local Laser Marking Services Enquiry

If you're looking to have your logo laser marked, etched or engraved on your product or parts give us a call. Using state of the art, UK built laser technology and leading software solutions we can laser mark almost any company logo, photo, branding or design onto your products.

In this short video lee demonstrates the capabilities of our latest laser marking equipment.

If you need custom shaped stickers, labels or sticky labels (is there a difference!?) then give us a call. We can create VERY high resolution full colour printed stickers and then custom cut them into ANY shape for you. 

Want a frog shape - you got it. Want a baked been can shape? You got that too! Want a square.... er? that's just dul... but you got it.

Our custom shaped contour cut labels and sticker can be printed on most media; plain paper, poly vinyl, clear vinyl and a selection of interesting textures.

Holographic ID cards are plastic identity cards that contain a hologram to make the card more difficult to copy by fraudsters. 

Holographic ID cards utilise holographic overlays to increase their visual authenticity. To the eye, holograms appear to change in the light and depending on the angle at which they are viewed.

ID cards with a holograph are secure because the holographic element is difficult if not impossible to remove, alter or duplicate.

It's not so easy to add a hologram to your ID card after it has been printed. Indeed it is much more secure to have a hologram included as part of the ID card printing process.

Our holographic employee identity cards provide a high level of security. Every ID card has several layers containing images which are overlapped. This gives an illusion of colour and depth.
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They are very secure and great for larger companies wishing to provide employees with ID cards which cannot be copied easily.

Ahead Solutions UK (that's us!) deliver holographic ID cards to almost every UK location on a daily basis.

When can a personalised tshirt REALLY make your company stand out for the crowd? When it's printed in reflective material of course.

Reflective printing of company logos is rm... just one of the things we do best at Ahead Solutions UK so we weren't phased when approached by the directors of a new London FinTech start-up with a hand drawn company logo.

​The logo was captured by camera from a whiteboard and recreated in reflective materials to garment by Ahead Solutions. it looks stunning as it catches the light and is sure to be a talking point at their up and coming launch event.

The reverse of the tshirt has the company's launch-day motif again printed in a tech font in reflective material. 

The order has been turned around in just 4 days.

The guys and girls are going to look like a well branded cohesive team. We wish them all the very best at this exciting time for them.

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• Lee from Ahead Solutions here, 

Recently we conducted some research as part of an analysis of the local market. We made lots of telephone calls and sent scores of emails to help us bring you some sound advice before ordering company employee ID cards.

So in the interests of keeping this short here's the best advice I can share to keep in mind when ordering employee corporate Identity cards: -

1. Caution!
   Exercise caution if order employee ID cards from Ebay!
   On the upside they are cheap but that is a very ephemeral upside when employee and corporate identity is at stake. Out of the scores of suppliers we contacted (many lone home workers likely operating from a back bedroom) only one was able to assure us of the existence of anything that resembled a data integrity policy. Shocking.
   
   
2. Experience
   When considering a quality supplier of employee security ID cards go for experience.
   Many of the suppliers of ID cards that we contacted simply had no product knowledge. It was as if they had an old dusty ID Card printer somewhere in the office and were willing to blow off the dust if the price was right. Perhaps the ID Card Printer seemed like a good investment some time back but now their business efforts were focused elsewhere.
   
   
3. One offs?
   Source a Local Employee Identity Card Producer willing to create one off employee ID Cards for you after any bulk run you may be having produced. One to many employee ID card suppliers will have data integrity policies in place and be able to provide new employee or replacement identity cards quickly and efficiently.
   
   
4. Quality
   Consistent quality of design of employee ID Cards. Ask for advice about employee identity card design and employee photographs. Ideally you want well presented photos if they are to be used (no holiday snaps or kids in the background!) because the Employee ID card is also a representation of your organisation. It's work on a lanyard around the neck of the person on display to visitors to your organisation and the rest of the world whilst employees are travelling to and from work.
   
   
5. On Site Photo Shoot
   On site employee photo sessions for identity cards. does your employee card provider offer an onsite employee photo shoot to ensure the pristine look of your corporate ID cards? You won't get this service from the Ebay traders. Think about how important consistency is to your organisation.
   
   
6. Price
   What should you pay for employee identity card creation? You can pay from £2.99 per scars through to 10x that depending on your choices.We would very much like to help with your Company Employee Identity Card project and are confident that we are able to provide a high-quality tailored Company ID card solution for a very affordable investment.
   
   

Please call us today on 01254 38722 or email us on [email protected] to talk with us about your company employee card ideas and needs.

If you wear a medical identity wristband read this!

NFC is the latest technology to really hit the streets with more applications than you can shake a stick at.

NFC embedded medical identity wristbands are one of the most helpful applications of the technology that everyone is raving about.

Why? Because an NFC embedded Medical ID Wristband allows you to carry UNLIMITED emergency contact and medical related information; amounts of life-saving information that you simply just would not be able to fit in writing on a standard wristband Identity card.

The benefit of this is that you are able to be certain that professionals such as paramedics, emergency services, police and medics have access to 'the full' picture; every last important medical detail of you.

Example: Jane has cystic fibrosis and lives an active life as possible. Jane is out and about as much as possible so feels comfortable in wearing her medical identity bracelet.

Jane takes over 60 tablets and medications a day and uses various pieces of medical equipment. Jane wears a medical identity bracelet but struggles to write all but the most important medications and contacts on the small identity card that goes inside the bracelet.

Switching to an NFC embedded medical bracelet allows Jane to include every single medication along with the frequency and dosage of each. She can also tell paramedics about any number of emergency contacts and list their mobile phone numbers, land lines and email addresses and even where they live and work. She can tell professionals about her medical equipment - the nebuliser that she depends upon for life saving delivery of Pulmazone. Jane wants to include 24/7 contact details for her specialist medical team at the clinic she attends. In other words Jane can give professionals UNLIMITED medical information...

... And all they need to do to access Jane's vital identity and life saving information is scan her wristband with an everyday Smartphone.

So how does an NFC Medical Identity Wristband Work?

1. You purchase the NFC Medical Identity Wristband which is dispatched same day
2. Provide your medical information
3. By the time your medical identity wristband arrives it is ready to wear with confidence.
4. You can add brief written details to the identity card if you like.

To serve the medical identity wristband market Ahead Solutions has extended its range of NFC Medical Identity Wristbands over on our sister site You-iD.me

Why not get yours today and have COMPLETE peace of mind.

Got a question about our NFC medical ID wristbands? Email us at mail @ you-id . me or call us on 01254 387227 today.