Card Printing Service

ID card printing service across Illinois.

We print, encode, and ship finished ID cards so you don't have to own a printer. Find your city, or get a quote.

Print-ready cards without the hardware

Not every organization needs a card printer on site. If you issue cards in batches, reissue on a cycle, or need credentials encoded before they ship, buying and maintaining a printer often does not pay off. Our card printing service turns your cardholder data and artwork into finished, ready-to-issue cards, printed, encoded, and shipped to your door.

We've printed cards for schools, employers, healthcare systems, associations, and events across the country since 1984. Send us the data and design; we handle the rest.

Printed photo ID badges for a medical center, showing cardholder photos, names, and barcodes.

What we produce

Full-color, single- or dual-sided PVC ID cards
Photo employee IDs and student badges
Membership, loyalty, and gift cards
Event, visitor, and contractor credentials
Access cards printed and encoded to your system

Encoding and personalization

Cards can do more than look good. We encode magnetic stripes and program HID access credentials, HID Prox, iCLASS SE, iCLASS SR, and SEOS, to your facility code and format so they badge in on day one. We also add barcodes and QR codes, sequential card numbering, signature panels, and slot punches for lanyards and reels. (We program HID credentials only, not generic MIFARE or non-HID smart chips.)

How it works

Send us your data and artwork, a spreadsheet of cardholders (Excel or CSV) plus your design and any photos.
We proof it so the layout, data, and encoding are right before we run the batch.
We print and encode full-color cards and write any magnetic stripe or HID credential.
We QA and ship the finished cards to you, ready to hand out.

No design yet? Lay one out in the card builder, or start from one of our ID card templates. The builder draws the card at real size with the print guides showing, so you can see what will actually fit before anyone quotes it, and it sends the finished design straight to us. Minimum order is 100 cards.

Who uses in-house printing

In-house printing fits any organization that would rather not own a printer: schools and universities, corporate and enterprise offices, healthcare, government, hospitality, and associations. It's also a smart backup when your own printer is down or can't keep up with a rush. School photographers send us their picture day batches every fall. If every card shares one design and you need 500 or more, such as membership, gift or hotel key cards, see custom plastic cards instead.

Turnaround and reorders

Send us your file and we handle printing, encoding, and shipping. For ongoing programs we can store your template and cardholder format so reordering is effortless, just send the new names and we run the next batch. Need it fast? Tell us your deadline and we'll tell you what's possible.

FAQ

Card Printing Service questions.

Do I need to own a printer to use this service?

No, that's the point. You send us the cardholder data and artwork and we print, encode, and ship finished cards. No hardware, supplies, or maintenance on your end.

What do you need from us to print a batch?

Your card design, a spreadsheet of your cardholders (Excel or CSV) with names, ID numbers and anything else that prints on the card, and any photos. We set it up from there. If cards need encoding, we'll also confirm your credential type, facility code, and numbering.

Can you encode access cards, not just print them?

Yes. We program HID Prox, iCLASS SE, iCLASS SR, and SEOS credentials to your facility code and format, and encode magnetic stripes. We program HID credentials only, not generic MIFARE or non-HID smart chips.