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ID Card Solutions for Government & Municipal
Secure employee credentials, smart-card access, and high-durability IDs for agencies, cities, and public offices.
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What Government & Municipal card programs need
- Secure employee and contractor credentials
- Smart-card access to controlled areas
- High-security features like holographic overlays
- Durable, tamper-resistant cards
- Consistent design across departments
Credentials built for security
Government and municipal ID programs put security first. That often means retransfer printing for edge-to-edge quality on technology cards, smart-card encoding, and holographic overlays or lamination to deter counterfeiting. Card Imaging supplies the hardware, supplies, and encoding, and our authorized service bench keeps it all running.
Building a government & municipal card program?
Get the right printers, cards, and encoding, spec'd for your use case.
In practice
Common government & municipal card setups.
Secure employee and contractor credentials
Smart-card access to controlled areas
Retransfer, over-the-edge printing on technology cards
Holographic overlays and lamination to deter counterfeiting
Consistent, standardized card design across departments
How Card Imaging helps
Everything Government & Municipal needs, in one place.
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Local printing, repair, and rebadging for government & municipal across the state.
FAQ
Government & Municipal ID card questions, answered.
Why do government IDs often use retransfer printers?
Retransfer prints over-the-edge and cleanly across the bump of a smart chip, giving a borderless, tamper-resistant card. That, plus holographic lamination, is why agencies favor it for secure credentials.
Can you add anti-counterfeiting security features?
Yes, holographic overlays, custom laminates, and Magicard's HoloKote watermark all raise the bar against copying. We help you pick the right layer for your security needs.
Do you support smart-card encoding for government access systems?
Yes. We program HID credentials, including iCLASS SE, iCLASS SR, and SEOS, to your facility code and format so credentials work on day one. We program HID credentials only, not generic MIFARE or non-HID smart chips.
Building a card program for government & municipal?
Tell us your use case and we'll spec it right, since 1984.