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Visitor Management Best Practices
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 by Paul Kazlauskas
Instances of workplace violence in healthcare facilities, businesses, and schools are at all-time highs. Regardless of the type of environment you work in or the size of the organization, there is a good chance that workplace security has crossed your mind. How productive can you be at your job if the security of your facility is on your mind? To protect employees and the facilities themselves, organizations of all sizes have incorporated visitor management systems into their security ...
Pro's and Con's of a Manual Visitor Sign-In System
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Paul Kazlauskas
A manual visitor sign-in system is a handwritten way of identifying and tracking the visitors that come into any school, healthcare facility, or business. This system usually consists of a visitor filling out a visitor’s badge to be worn while on the premises. Occasionally, there is a log book to fill out that provides a record of the visitor’s stay, logging such items as their name, the date, time in, time out, and person visiting/destination. Many manual visitor badges are ...
Pro's and Con's of an Electronic Visitor Management System
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 by Paul Kazlauskas
Before you choose a visitor management system, think about what you want your system to do — such as identify visitors, track visitors, access background information, and/or issue reports. Electronic visitor management systems (VMS) are used to sign-in and track visitors who come to visit a facility. They are the electronic version of the traditional visitor sign-in book. There are numerous Pro's and Con's to having an electronic visitor management system and each list should be ...
The most affordable way to have "time-expiring" visitor badges
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Paul Kazlauskas
Schools, healthcare facilities, and businesses across America have a responsibility to maintain a secure environment. They are accountable for protecting their students, patients, staff, employees, and visitors. The need for security is becoming greater and more expensive at a time when security budgets are getting tighter and tighter. Every facility across our country is looking for their respective security budgets to be stretched as far as they could go. Requiring your visitors to sign ...
What is direct thermal printing and how do I choose a printer?
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Paul Kazlauskas
Direct thermal printing uses a thermal print head that applies heat to the surface being printed. This type of printing uses chemically treated, heat-sensitive labels or paper that blacken when they pass under the thermal print head. Unlike with thermal transfer printing, no ribbon is used in direct thermal printing. Direct thermal printers also don’t use ink or toner. Because of this, direct thermal printers can’t print in color.Direct thermal images may fade over time, ...
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