The Little League World Series baseball event was recently held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA during August 2004. Curacao defeated Thousand Oaks in the final. The event, for players up to 12 years of age, is the culmination of months of very intensive competition between teams from all over the world. Its importance is confirmed by the fact that it is featured on ABC Sports and ESPN.
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The Magicard Avalon is the new entry level ID badge printer from Ultra Electronics Card Systems.

Magicard printers are the only brand that automatically prints an anti card-copying watermark onto the card during the print cycle. It costs nothing to print the Holokote™ watermark – standard dye film ribbons are used to print on standard CR80-sized PVC cards.
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The Magicard Opera color ID card printer comes complete with Magicard ID badging software and Windows drivers, all for US$1399. (EUR1330). Users simply add their own PC and web-cam to have a complete badging system.

The drop-in dye-sublimation ribbon cassette and card dispenser means that the Magicard Opera is easy to setup. Hand-feeding of cards one at a time means no card feeding jams and the dye-sublimation technology embeds the image into the plastic card surface for high-quality, scratch and fade resistant images.
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems and CS Technologies announce a strategic distribution and support partnership, to extend the reach of Ultra’s Magicard ID card printers into Australia and South-East Asia.

As a leading access control provider to many of Australia’s top corporations since 1987, CS Technologies is well positioned to sell the Magicard ID card printers alongside its existing security products.
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Ultra Electronics chose the ASIS show in New Orleans to launch its all-new range of low-cost dye sub color ID card printers.

The new models download and print a full color single sided CR80 edge to edge card in less than 30 seconds using a USB interface, and are available with optional Hi Co magstripe encoding.
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