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Or use barcodes - you could then print them yourself for tags to attach to the clothing. Even cheaper than swipe cards!
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"Rumour has it that if you play Microsoft CDs backwards you will hear Satanic messages.Worse still, is that if you play them forwards they will install Windows"
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Exactly.
In my last job, I built POS for Dry-cleaning. Per the (software Company's) owner's request, everything was done via bar-codes. Tickets. "VIP" Cards. Drop-off bags. You name it.
Cost to print was not even a consideration. If you cared to put them into plastic laminate, it was still trivial.
Worried about forgery? Use 2D bar-codes and encrypt the data. You could link each key to a specific account and further increase security.
Why even bother with the magnetic strip?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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They are the foremost card maker I know of, but I recommend against the mag stripe cards as almost everyone has cracked those. http://www.hidglobal.com/[^]
Narf.
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When I worked at Smart Club Solutions[^], I used Universal Smart Cards[^]. They supply the full range and are hard to beat on price. Also, they are very approachable and happy to advise, pre sale.
Tired of over zealous spam filters and block lists, claiming your good mail is spam? Try Email Saviour[ ^].
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I've been down this road of searching for suppliers in the past and ultimately dealt with a company in the Chicago area called Perfect Plastic, www.perfectplastic.com . My company is based in Ireland, we had no hassle dealing remotely with this supplier and they were very helpful.
My one suggestion to you is to have your homework done, be very specific in your requirements. Mag stripe is still the cheapest solution and you will get good pricing for volume orders, e.g. $0.08 per card. If possible, check to see if your solution fits into a known ISO or other standard, your app becomes more adaptable for reuse if you can unearth a standard.
Adding bar coding is not expensive. Smartcard tech is still relatively expensive whether chip n pin or rfid, proximity etc
Hope that helps
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We've done work with Smart Cards in the past. We worked with a company called Debitek that was, at the time, owned by Ingenico. Ingenico is pretty big in Europe I believe so you can check them out.
Smart Cards are more expensive than magstripe, but can also hold a lot more data and are more secure. However, it doesn't sound like you'd need that for your solution. As other replies have suggested, MagTek is one of the most well known leaders in this area and we've implemented their magstripe hardware products in the past.
I would be interested in talking with you about your solution as we have done a lot of work in this area. Please contact me privately if you'd like to discuss further.
Cheers,
Chris
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Hi,
There is a company called MagTek that produces them, they have a website and if you emailed them they can probably provide you the details of a local reseller in your area... either that, or you might be able to buy on line.
I think the 'Cherry' range of keyboards also has some models that have card readers built in.
Unfortunately I don't know where you get the cards themselves from, but again one of those manufacturers may be able to help with that.
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www.evolis.com We used the Dualys for while, but most of our customers tend to prefer to use barcodes on the card rather than mag-swipe as its slightly cheaper per card, and they already have barcode scanners. All fairly simple to drive, blank cards ribbons etc reasonably priced.
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Bridge building game. Xmas themed.[^]
Ah, to hear Santa's little helpers scream as they break through my bridge and fall to their doom.
Hmmm. Maybe an Xmas theme wasn't the best idea for that. 
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I'm still stuck on the Easter canasta.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How's its usability? The first such game I played a decade ago had a feature I've not seen in any since (stress levels on components were indicted by color coding so you didn't have to guess at where it was overloaded). And I've yet to see a bridge builder that let you drag-reposition components. Instead the trend has been to remove functionality while using a higher quality of gif in the flash. 
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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I posted a rant and a question (in the same post - "Flippin' problems") last week, and I've had NO answers. Did I do something to offend anybody, or have I been guilty of some poor etiquette I'm not aware of?
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i'd hazard a guess that no one was interested enough to answer your question
i didnt see the post - its probably nothing personal
bryce
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No idea, but speaking of etiquette, it's probably a good idea to provide a link to the post you are talking about (that way we can easily review it without having to root through your message history).
If I remember correctly, I saw your post and my impression was that it was too long and that the title wasn't interesting enough for me to read the whole post (still not interested enough to read it).
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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Can't say I saw it either... maybe you could post it again as a reply to your post now and we'll take a look at it... 
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I saw it, but it wasn't stimulating.
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I saw it but didn't really have anything to say. No, not poor etiquette or offensiveness, perhaps it wasn't "stimulating" enough .
"Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it." -- Lore Sjöberg
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I saw it, but (to me, at least) it's the kind of question that you have to be sitting at the machine in question to be able to have an idea what is going on.
My first thought was that the antivirus had changed the setting of some service or other, but to check that, I'd need to take a record of what was running (and in what mode) in services.msc, then roll back to see what had changed -- but it was probably already too late to do that, so I was out of solutions.
We tend to assume, here, that if we can't answer a specific question, then someone else will be able to, so we either don't respond, or we make a joke of it. I'm sure no offence was intended.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you tried out your prizes? Find any of it useful?
If not (or if you have extra copies), I'll be happy to take what you don't want off your hands. 
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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Oi! You've gotta earn them! 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: OiOui!
FTFY. You do have some leftovers you want to give me? Sweet!
Chris Maunder wrote: You've gotta earn them!
Bah! You French-Canadians are so fickle. Make up your mind! 
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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aspdotnetdev wrote: You French-Canadians are so fickle.
Now you've made Chris mad! Remember, Chris loves the French people in France (not those in Canada).
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I figure if I insult him enough he'll eventually send me something to shut me up. Sure, it may be a horse's head, but that's still something.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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aspdotnetdev wrote: CodeProject Competition Winners
Winners? Isn't that "winner" these days? I mean Sacha is a heck of a cool guy but there's no reason to refer to him in the plural.
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