PROCESS FOR VISUALLY VALIDATING IDENTIFICATION BADGES

A process for validating an identification badge or plastic card for a plurality of predetermined periods of time. The process includes generating, preferably randomly, an initial image for an initial predetermined period of time and then transmitting this initial image to a printing device. The printing device prints the image on the identification badge to thereby validate the badge for the initial predetermined period of time. Thereafter, a subsequent image is randomly generated for a subsequent predetermined period of time. This subsequent image is then transmitted to the printing device. The initial image is then removed from the identification badge and the subsequent image printed on the identification badge to validate the badge for the subsequent predetermined period of time.