Not all cover materials are created the same. There is a high level of quality and craftsmanship that goes into curating and developing the perfect product. Our team invests a significant amount of time to ensure the materials we choose will stand the test of time and offer something unique for you to present to your clients.
While high quality school portraits capture the hearts of parents, it’s your service items like ID cards, delivered accurately and on time, that will grab the attention of your school’s contract decision maker and keep them coming back year after year.
The vast majority of H&H customers use H&H press printed or PVC ID cards. Packaged and sequenced however you want, ready to deliver to the school, H&H ID cards continue to be the core solution for delivering ID cards to schools. H&H also supports studio printed and on-site ID card printing.
Three ways to put your portraits on a school ID. All are printed by H&H, sequenced and ready to deliver. Pick a card type to see its materials and details.
Printed on digital presses and available on durable Poly or laminated Teslin substrates, these economical ID cards can be produced single- or double-sided. For larger orders, cards may be organized in 3-ring binders for professional presentation and easy delivery.
Printed on a high-strength polyester substrate that delivers excellent durability and everyday performance. Choose Poly if you want a thinner, maintenance-friendly card that’s highly durable straight off press without lamination.
Teslin® synthetic paper laminated on both sides for a durable, card-like product with a standard thickness. Choose Laminated Teslin if you need a thicker, more traditional card feel with rich print quality and strong encapsulation for protected data or branding.
Our PVC ID cards are printed individually to your specifications, available in both single and double-sided options. These durable, credit card style cards serve as efficient and secure identification for students, faculty and staff. With precise printing and customization, each card accurately represents its holder.
RFID and Prox-type cards are growing in popularity. If you have a school that requires this type of card, H&H can help by printing on the school-specific cards you provide.
* plus cost of blanks. RFID cards use the PVC studio background templates.
Stocks vary, so use one of the HID card options that work with our printers. You are responsible for getting the cards. We always do our very best not to waste anything, but because of vast variances in card stock we see higher defects on these jobs than on our normal PVC ID card stock. H&H does not incur the cost of wasted card stock, and H&H does not program the cards.
Consider ordering our PVC ID card with an adhesive back instead. We print and ship these IDs to you or the school to adhere to the RFID card the school is using. You do not need to provide the stock.
Everything each card type includes, side by side. Scroll sideways on small screens.
* plus cost of blanks. Temporary IDs are printed at your studio from hhschools; see how.
We offer three ways to design your ID cards. Choose the option that best fits your studio and the schools you work with.
Our studio background ID card templates are a hybrid of the studio and H&H doing the design work together. Pre-made templates take care of the image and text styling and placement, and you design your own backgrounds to complement each template. This eliminates the setup time needed for custom ID cards but still lets you personalize the style and color scheme, and even add mascots or other graphics schools may request.
Each design features multiple lines of text that can be customized to display a variety of dynamic text fields.
Click any template to enlarge it. The code under each one is the template name.
ID_2_StudioBkgd_H_PVC
ID_2B_StudioBkgd_H_PVC
ID_3_StudioBkgd_V_PVC
ID_3B_StudioBkgd_V_PVC
ID_H_1_StudioBkgd_PVC
ID_HB_1_StudioBkgd_PVC
ID_V_1_StudioBkgd_PVC
ID_VB_1_StudioBkgd_PVC
ID_V_2_StudioBkgd_PVC
ID_VB_2_StudioBkgd_PVC
ID_4B_StudioBkgd_H_PVC
ID_4W_StudioBkgd_H_PVC
ID_2_StudioBkgd_H_DP
ID_2B_StudioBkgd_H_DP
ID_3_StudioBkgd_V_DP
ID_3B_StudioBkgd_V_DP
ID001H_StudioBkgd_DP_T
ID001HB_StudioBkgd_DP_T
ID001V_StudioBkgd_DP_T
ID001VB_StudioBkgd_DP_T
ID002V_StudioBkgd_DP_T
ID002VB_StudioBkgd_DP_T
ID003HB_StudioBkgd_PNG_DP_T
ID003VB_StudioBkgd_PNG_DP_T
ID_1_StudioBkgd_H (front / back)
ID_1B_StudioBkgd_H (front / back)
ID_1_StudioBkgd_V (front / back)
ID_1B_StudioBkgd_V (front / back)
ID_2_StudioBkgd_H (front / back)
ID_2B_StudioBkgd_H (front / back)
ID_2_StudioBkgd_V (front / back)
ID_2B_StudioBkgd_V (front / back)
ID_3_StudioBkgd_V (front / back)
ID_3B_StudioBkgd_V (front / back)
ID_4B_StudioBkgd_H (front / back)
ID_4W_StudioBkgd_H (front / back)
Stock graphics to use as the studio background on your studio background cards, in a wide range of colors and in horizontal and vertical orientations. Pair them with the templates above to skip designing from scratch and avoid custom setup by our Design Center.
Stock designs for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, to use as the entire back side of studio background 2-sided ID cards. Provided in English and English + Spanish versions. Check your state and local regulations for their specific logo requirements.
Whether you prefer full creative control, or need to give the school a more dynamic design, you can have your own ID card design. Let our Design Center custom design it for you, or design it yourself.
If you design your own ID cards, they must be set up by our Design Center before they can be ordered through hhschools. Submit your designs using our ID Card Design Form. Limit your design to fonts from our font list; any other font is replaced with Arial.
You have already rendered the card, you just need it printed. Whether it’s 1-sided or 2-sided, simply import and order your cards from hhstudio in minutes. 2-sided cards feature a unique image you provide on the front, and all share the same image on the back.
Download the design guide for your card type so you know the exact size to design.
The vast majority of H&H customers use H&H press printed or PVC ID cards. For everything else, H&H offers solutions for all your ID card printing needs.
Some studios prefer to print their own ID cards, using their own ID card printers and software (like HotID or FlowID). With the hhschools general purpose export license, studios can use hhschools to match data, cull, crop and organize images, and export the data and images, appropriately sized, for studio printing.
Need an ID card with a pleasing background, and want to offer parents a choice of background on their package orders? Consider H&H Blue screen or Masters Extraction knockout services.
A camera card built for tethered ID card printing at a school. Import the school roster into hhschools and print one camera card with two barcodes:
Sometimes schools need ID cards fast for the lunchroom or other admin purposes, and may push for on-site printing. An alternative is the hhschools temporary ID card feature.
Two ways to handle the students who lose their cards.
Tag the images that need replacement ID cards, filter to those tagged images, then place your ID card service item order.
Pro tip: Check the “Reorder” box to get the lower $7 minimum-order charge (reorders from a project of $200 or more submitted within 275 days).
Insider hint: Mark replacement orders as a rush for faster service. Small replacement orders will likely fall within the $7 minimum anyway.
Some studios have H&H produce the initial big run, then print replacements at the studio. Use hhschools as your school database: look up students, tag them and export them to your favorite ID card printer software with the general purpose export.
ID cards can be ordered in three H&H programs, but not every card is available in each one. Tell us what you’re ordering to see where to order it and what to do first.
RFID & Prox cards are single-sided. Minimum order charges apply to every program.
Per-card prices with quantity discounts.