Creativity and Business Sense: How to Turn an ID Card Printer into a Money-Maker

The school year is nearing and it’s time to keep an eye out for those plastic ID cards to strap on to children’s backpacks, lunch sacks, drinking jugs, and other personal items. These more modern ID tags are now quite conveniently churned out in stalls and stores with plastic card printers hooked up to computers loaded with different designs to choose from. Looking around at these stalls’ clientele, you would notice that parents are not the only customers they have. The owners of these stalls have turned their ID card printer into their own small enterprise targeting a spectrum of customers from parents of school kids to older students and from young teens looking for cute ways to label their things to adults looking for luggage tags that stand out on the airport carousel.

The more enterprising mom would be able to buy her own ID card printer and turn it into a money-maker. There are various ways through which you can use these plastic card printers to earn extra income. Aside from getting in touch with your co-parents at school and sending out online catalogues of your available designs, you can also contact school organizations that may be interested in having ID cards made for their members. Another great business idea using your plastic card printer is to work the party scene for a more “utilitarian” alternative to the usual photo collage giveaways.

These plastic card printers are now available in different models to serve varying printing quantities. The basic ID card printer comes in a model that prints on one side of a PVC card. Other more complex models include capabilities for double-side printing, magnetic stripe or smart contact encoding, and other security features. If this sounds like a good idea to you, make a plan and do some pencil-pushing to find out how this business idea can give you the profits you expect.