Education

ID Card Solutions for Schools & Universities

Student and staff IDs, visitor badges, and access, printed and encoded for schools and campuses across Illinois.

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Students on a university campus

What Schools & Universities card programs need

  • Student and staff photo IDs, often thousands each term
  • Cards that double as library, meal-plan, and building access
  • Fast, safe visitor and temporary badges
  • Barcode or magnetic stripe on the back for check-in
  • Mass reissue at the start of each school year

Card programs built for the school calendar

Schools and universities run some of the largest, most time-sensitive card programs there are. In a few weeks each fall you may need to issue thousands of student IDs, cards that identify, open doors, check out books, and pay for lunch. Card Imaging supplies the printers, ribbons, and cards to do it in-house, or we print the whole batch for you.

Campus safety also means managing visitors and contractors. We help you stand up quick, professional visitor badges and can encode access credentials to your facility's system.

Building a schools & universities card program?
Get the right printers, cards, and encoding, spec'd for your use case.

In practice

Common schools & universities card setups.

Fall mass-issuance of student photo IDs, thousands in the first weeks
One card for identity, library checkout, meal plans, and dorm or building access
Fast temporary and visitor badges at the front office
Faculty and staff IDs encoded for door access
Barcode or magnetic stripe on the back for check-in and attendance

How Card Imaging helps

Everything Schools & Universities needs, in one place.

Serving Illinois

Local printing, repair, and rebadging for schools & universities across the state.

FAQ

Schools & Universities ID card questions, answered.

Can one card work for ID, library, meal plan, and door access?
Yes. We supply printers with the right encoder and program the card's barcode, magnetic stripe, or smart chip so a single student card handles identity, library checkout, meal plans, and building access on your systems.
How do we issue thousands of student IDs each fall?
Either print in-house on a higher-volume printer with a large feeder, or send us your roster and photos and we print, encode, and ship finished cards in batches so your team isn't buried at the start of term.
Can you make quick visitor and temporary badges for a school office?
Yes. We set you up with fast single-sided printing or a visitor-badge workflow so front-office staff can issue a clear, professional temporary badge in seconds.

Building a card program for schools & universities?

Tell us your use case and we'll spec it right, since 1984.