Types of ID Card and Their Uses in Education

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ID Card - as known as identity document, which is the document used for verify aspects of a person's identity. In education, it used for many purpose: student badges, staff badges and visitor cards.
Student Badge:
Student badges helps you to track manage all your student, improve the security of school, generally use ID-1 as student badges size.
Staff Badges:
Staff badges is a enhance your school's safety, security and management In general, people will use ID-1(as known as credit card size) as staff card size
Visitor Badges:
Visitor badges is a part of visitor management system, when you holding a event, which has many participants, you may want to keep control of participant flows.or wanting to control keep control to the visitor flows. you will need a visitor management system, which enables you to enroll new visitor and adding the visitor data into database, create visitor badges and print it out and verify badges, In general, people will use ID-1(as known as credit card size) or ID-2(as known as passport size) as visitor card size.
ID Card Size:
ID-1(CR80):
ID-1 were defined as 3.370 inches wide and 2.125 inches high.
ID-2:
ID-2 are not very commonly used, it were defined as 4.134 inches wide and 2.913 inches high.
ID-3:
ID-3 are widely used for passport.as known as B7 size, the sizes of ID-3 is 4.921 inches wide and 3.465 inches high.
ID-000:
As known as SIM card size, it were defined as 25 mm wide and 15 mm high.
CR100:
CR100 usually used for military applications and conventions. it were defined as 3.88 inches wide and 2.63 inches high.
CR-79:
CR-79 were measured as 3.303 inches wide and 2.051 inches high. it is little bit smaller than CR-80, usually used for clamshell proximity cards.
Thickness of ID Cards:
In ID card industry, the unit of measuring thickness for ID cards is: mil. 1 mil = 0.001 inches.
In general and also based on ISO/IEC 7810, a standard ID card should have a thickness of 0.03 inches(0.76 mm or 30mil), but considering costs and the purpose of use, in many situation, we will use cards with smaller thickness than the ISO standard, for example: if you would like to create ID cards that more flexible then the 30 mil standard ID cards, you may use 20-24 mil cards for production. business cards would use 10 mil cards because of the price, and some membership cards also.
Recommended software for card making and membership management: ID Card Workshop - A software designed to help you create, design and print id cards with just few steps, and it also enables you to manage all your member records, information. to learn more information and download the free trial version, please visit:http://www.idcardworkshop.com/
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