HID GLOBAL Previews Its World Class FARGO® HDP8500 Industrial Card Printer/Encoder

HID GLOBAL, has expanded its card personalization portfolio with the introduction of its FARGO® HDP8500 Industrial Card Printer/Encoder, offering the highest capacity, rugged and most secure printing/encoding solution. Featuring the company’s fifth generation High Definition Printing™ (HDP®) technology, the new Industrial Series printer/ encoder is a superior card personalization and issuance solution for extended-run, high throughput and high duty cycle requirements of government ID card programs, laborious service bureaus conditions, universities and large enterprises. Go to the FARGO® HDP8500 Industrial Card Printer/ Encoder product page for more information. HID Global also announced its OMNIKEY® Device Service Provider (DSP) software for IBM® Tivoli® TAM enterprise single sign on (eSSO). The new solution is a software interface that enables customers to benefit from converged physical and logical access control on a single card by using their existing contactless physical access credentials in conjunction with IBM Tivoli TAM eSSO for sign on to IT networks and applications.