Office Equipment Blog from Office Zone

More businesses today are migrating their employee photo ID badges from older, traditional materials to newer easier-to-use substances such as PVC. A PVC ID card or badge is simply a slab of thin plastic that is roughly the same size as a credit card. Most come with rounded edges.

PVC photo ID badge cards are made of a 40 percent polyester core with a

PVC laminate, top to bottom. PVC cards feature a polished, scratch and debris-reduced, high-quality surface made to last for years.

Blank PVC cards can then be loaded into digital photo ID printers that can print, on four-color, a employee’s photograph and key information such as a clearance number.

Some cards are available with a magnetic stripe or mag stripe, on the back. This is similar to the dark magnetic stripe on the back of your debit or credit card. This area can be encoded with an employee’s information, or other key data. Be sure to take a look at Office Zone’s wide selection of PVC photo ID card badge materials today.

Most everyone hates speaking in public. That’s a fear that Office Zone can’t help you with, but we can make the experience a little easier, thanks to our new professional podiums by Executive Wood.

These new models are extremely functional and very attractive. Featuring a beautiful cherry hardwood and veneer finish, the new Ambassador and Collegiate collection podiums are extremely portable. Each model includes its own casters. That means you can pack up and move your presentation in hardly no time at all.

The new podiums by Executive Wood include their own self-contained sound systems, have no messy wires to hassle with, and the battery will hold a charge for up to three months when not in use. Be sure to take a closer look at our new podium selection today:

• Ambassador Podium
• Ambassador Evolution Podium
• Collegiate Presentation Podium
• Collegiate Evolution Podium

We just added seven new Akiles brand binding machines to our Web site. Here are the links to the new product pages:

Over the years, we have found that most Akiles binding machines live up to all of the manufacturer’s hype. They are made of durable, heavy-duty metal and require little service work. Feel free to take a look today!

Office security is always a big concern, especially for large corporations and government entities. Photo ID badges and ID cards are a critical security measure for these organizations. While some are still using old Polaroid-style cameras and accessories, many are taking advantage of relatively new photo ID technology, including ID card creation software such as Card 5 or Episuite. These user-friendly programs help you create ID cards quickly using digital printers.

For our customers’ convenience, we offer a large selection of digital photo ID equipment and systems. These include: photo ID cameras, digital photo ID printers, and ID card creation software. We also supply traditional,

Polaroid-style cameras and supplies, including photo paper trimmers, pouch laminators and lamination film, and slot punches.

Whatever system you prefer, we have the photo ID creation equipment and supplies for you. Office Zone also carries badge holders, badge clips, badge reels, lanyards, and other photo ID related accessories. For more photo ID tips and suggestions, be sure to visit our Photo ID Guide.

Military personnel and others can now easily and conveniently destroy top secret documents while deployed in the field, thanks to the new Dahle 20434DS ultra high security paper shredder. The model 20434DS is specifically designed to destroy high security documents and other sensitive papers while on the go. The machine falls under the NSA/CSS Specification 02-01. The shredder is approved for use by military, federal, and other government worker use.

The model 20434DS paper shredder is a security Level 6 machine, is compact, yet it packs a big punch. The shredder comes with a durable case that is both padded and waterproof. The shredder’s cutting cylinders (or blades) will shred a sheet of paper into 15,000 tiny particles, making document reassembly virtually impossible.

Are you looking for a coin counting/sorting machine that will count and sort a significant amount of coins, but price is a concern? Office Zone is pleased to announce the arrival of the new model ABC110 coin sorting and wrapping machine.

We’ve received feedback from our customers who run businesses where coins are processed on a daily basis, but they are worried that they cannot afford a coin cointing machine. Counting a fair amount of coins on a budget isn’t an easy task. There are several coin counters available that just won’t get the job done. The new ABC110 coin counter and sorter from Office Zone is relatively fast (counts up to 270 coins per minute), highly accurate, and best of all it’s affordable.

This new coin counting machine will count a mixed bundle of coins and sort them into separate bins or coin tubes, whatever your preference. The ABC110 handles all popular denominations including pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

Here’s a new useful office machine you’ve just got to see. It’s the model WiAir 200 air cushion packager from Sircle Corp. What this innovative little unit does is make pillow-shaped air bags, used for packaging material.

All you have to do is load it with a 300-foot roll of packaging film and then let the machine do the rest.

The WiAir Cushion Packaging Machine has a self-contained air compressor that lets you create eight-inch-wide air packaging pockets, ranging from 4.7 to 12 inches in length. This means the WiAir can meet most of your packaging requirements.

The machine produces 3.3 feet per minute of packaging material. The biggest benefits from the WiAir 200 are significant cost savings in packaging resources and reduced shipping weight fees. Be sure to take a closer look at the WiAir 200 Cushion Packaging Machine today.

Does your office have an archive room? Most businesses have some kind of room or closet where past receipts, invoices, and other important documents are stored. Office Zone has just the right item for your archive

Bankers Box

and filing needs: Bankers Boxes.

What are bankers boxes, you say? They simply help you keep important documents and files in your office stored and organized in an efficient way. We recently added a new bankers box line from Fellowes called the Bankers Box High-Stak Storage Drawer.

These storage drawers, or bankers boxes, can stack up to 10 units high. You can lock them together vertically and horizontally. The boxes, designed to withstand day-to-day usage, are constructed with corrugated cardboard and metal brackets. The box supportive frames make it easy for full drawers to open and close with ease. You can view our entire line of bankers boxes, and other related items, here.

Some of our customers are surprised to learn that we offer a wide variety of magazine racks and other various display racks. In fact, our selection of magazine racks may be the most deep and wide assortment available online. Magazine racks help you professionally present magazines, brochures, newsletters, pamphlets and other professionally printed publications.

Magazine and display racks are often found in doctors’ offices, hospitals, colleges, university lobbies, public libraries, professional businesses and much more. At Office Zone, we carry a wide variety of magazine rack styles, colors and formats, including acrylic plastic, wire and wood. Be sure to take a closer look at our magazine racks today.

Paper shredder manufacturer Martin Yale recently unveiled a new, very interesting machine: a prescription bottle shredder. It’ called the ScriptStroyer UC5500. This new shredder takes most prescription bottles, typically found at a pharmacy, measuring up to 3-1/2 inches in diameter, and completely shreds the label, bottle and cap. Pharmacists will find this especially useful when trying to destroy sensitive prescription labels stuck to the bottle.

In the past, pharmacists had to employ someone to peel these labels from the bottle before shredding. This was a time-consuming and costly process, but necessary to comply with federal privacy laws such as HIPPA. The machine also shreds paper, up to 10 sheets at a time of 20-pound bond. Be sure to take a look at the new Martin Yale ScriptStroyer UC500 shredder today.