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Evolis manufactures plastic id card printers for id badge printing and personalization : student ID cards, loyalty programs, banking cards, transportation passes, membership cards, driving licences, identity cards, id card, employee badges, voting cards, health cards, access badges, and visitor badges. A badge can host data pertaining to its holder, with four-color photo-quality printing, and perform data encoding (magnetic stripe, smart card and/or contactless card). Evolis is specialized in creating these innovative id card printers. Evolis also markets the Badgy card printer , a turnkey solution to print badges on plastic cards , in small runs and without encoding options. Get more information on Badgy card printer on www.badgy.com .Evolis also offers accessories and identification supplies through its subsidiary SOGEDEX ACCESSORIES.
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Evolis supports Project Genesius , the Metropolitan Police, London, U.K. initiative to prevent crime in the printing industry.Evolis Equipment will only knowingly be supplied for legitimate applications and data may be shared in confidence with Law Enforcement. |
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Evolis Card Printer Home Page > Solutions > Success Stories > Costa Crociere: Access Control and Payment card
Identification Access Control and Payment card aboard the Costa Crociere ships
- CHALLENGE Optimize management of guests and their experience on board the Costa Crociere ships
- MARKET Leisure
- APPLICATIONS Identification, access control, payment
- EVOLIS SOLUTIONS Dualys card printer
Aboard the Costa Crociere ships, one single card for identification, access control and payment
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Costa Crociere group, welcomed 2.15 million travellers in 2010 on their cruises, all around the world. With such large-scale operations, smooth organizing at every stage is a priority, so that guests can be welcome in the most hospitable way with the aim of exceeding their expectations. This is the very reason why each passenger receives a personal card upon boarding: the Costa Card and a second card for emergency evacuations. The Costa Card mainly serves as an identification badge. It contains personal details of its holder, text and photo. This card is also used to access passengers' cabins and as a payment card thanks to a barcode and a magnetic stripe. “The payment methods offered by the system is an additional service for the passenger and drives our on-board revenues up ”, explains Franco Caraffi, Director of Reservation and On Board Systems, Costa Crociere. |
3.5+ million cards personalized by Dualys every year
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120 Evolis Dualys printers are deployed on the Costa Cruises ships with 6 printers per ships for personalize Costa cards, Emergency cards and employee badges, and issue more than 3.5 million cards per year. “We have noticed that the printers were highly reliable with no failures to report. This really helps us provide our Guests with a premium travelling experience ”, points out Franco Carraffi. The Dualys card personalization solution was selected for its capacity to speed up card personalization without compromising on quality. Dualys enables dual-sided printing, in monochrome and in color, and can be fitted with multiple encoding technologies: magnetic stripes, smart cards and contactless cards. |
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“Outstanding and critical reliability”
TESTIMONY of Franco Caraffi, IT Reservation and On Board System Director, Costa Crociere
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How did you learn about the Evolis printers? Why did you decide to go for decentralized printing? Can you tell us about the card personalization process on board? Are you satisfied with this printing process and the Evolis solutions? |
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