Making IDs is a tedious process

[afuna]

My brother has a couple of jobs, one of them being a (freelance?) photographer. One of his bigger recent jobs involved taking pictures for all the employees of a call center and making the IDs by hand. He's been up all night, poor bro, and it's due later so I thought I should help.

I'm no good at cutting in a straight line, so what I'm doing now is taking the pre-cut printouts (which are on this interestingly textured plasticky paper), and sticking them on the stiff plastic backing. The tedious part is peeling off the protective layer from both sides of the card. Then I hand it back to him for lamination. I think I'll need to peel off something after that, as well. I'm still on my first batch, though, so I don't know what comes next.

I don't know how most other companies do it, but I suspect they print it onto the card directly. However, that probably takes a special machine, which requires money, which... meh. I get no money for this. Maybe I can convince him to cook me an omelet tomorrow (once he's had some sleep) ;P

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[ivles.livejournal.com]

In my new work place *cough* they have a special printer. In the previous one they outsource the job. But, back in the library, I do all the part-time students ID card. Oh, boy, I cut myself several times, and jammed the laminating machine just before my Operating System class!

The new workplace has a holed plastic case, so there's no need to make a hole in the card itself.

Hugs for your brother.

[afuna]

Eep. That sound painful. My brother has to punch the hole in the card manually, but it's a very safe thing that sort of looks ilke a cross between a stapler and scissors, and there's little risk of injury.

Passed on the hugs!

*hugs ivles as well*