QR Codes can add a new dimension to your ID Card program

QR Codes (QR stands for “Quick Response”) are mobile phone readable barcodes that have been big in Japan since their introduction by Toyota as a means of rapidly tracking car components. In 2011 QR Codes began to be used extensively in Europe and in North America to act as a bridge between printed material in the physical world and the information visible virtually through the Internet.

Here is an example of how QR codes can be used to enhance your ID badges. Once a badge is issued, employees continue to take training and certification courses. Rather than re-printing the badge each time a new cert is obtained, the QR code allows on-line checking of current up-to-the-minute certifications.

Anyone with the app in their phone will be able to use their camera to read the above tags, either from the actual Photo ID card, or from the image on the screen. They will immediately receive the following message in their phone, which comes from the InstantCard server’s data base storing information associated with each ID card issued:

Go ahead and try it! If you don’t have a QR code app on your phone, click on the link below.

InstantCard can generate QR codes on the front or the back of the card. Multiple codes can be printed on each card. Data on sites referenced in a QR Code can also be password-protected.

Please give our ID Card experts a call to discuss how Microsoft Tags or QR Codes can allow you to enhance your Photo ID cards with online, real-time information retrieval.

List of QR Code Apps for your smart phone.

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