Fingerprint biometric readers are generally lower cost and are often used for entry-level systems such as Comet's ATRx Secure PunchIn. They represent an easy and affordable way for businesses to get started using biometric-enabled time and attendance systems. Depending on the system, fingerprint-based biometric systems can have a false-acceptance rate that is lower than other technologies.

When an employee is first enrolled in a fingerprint-based biometric time and attendance system, the software records a template of the employee's fingerprint and associates that template with the employee's ID number. This template measures the relationship between various points in the fingerprint.

Each time the employee attempts to clock in or out, the time and attendance software verifies that the newly scanned fingerprint matches the template originally stored for that ID number. If there is a match, the punch is recorded.

Occasionally, employees will have privacy concerns about having their fingerprint scanned. The fingerprint templates used for biometric verification such as with ATRx Secure PunchIn are stored in encrypted format and cannot be used to re-create anyone's fingerprint. Additionally, because biometric verification uses relatively few points of comparison, the templates used in commercial time and attendance systems are useless without another fingerprint with which to compare them. They cannot be used for biometric identification.

You will often hear biometric system vendors touting their system's low false-acceptance or false-reject rate. These refer to how accurate and reliable the system is in correctly identifying people.

For time and attendance systems, a false acceptance occurs when the system registers a punch from an employee even when someone else's finger or hand (or an artificial finger or hand) is offered for validation. A false reject happens when the system refuses to accept the employee's own fingerprint or hand as valid.

Biometric systems all strive to have rates of false acceptances and false rejects as low as possible. False acceptances may allow instances of buddy punching to "slip through the cracks." False rejects can lead to employee frustration when they aren't able to clock in and out successfully using their own hands or fingerprints.

How much will you shred each day?

Personal Shredders	Up to 100 Sheets per day
Small Office Shredders	Between 100 and 400 sheets per day
Office Shredders	Between 400 and 2,000 sheets per day
Departmental Shredders	Between 2,000 and 12,000 sheets per day
High Capacity Shredders	Between 12,000 and 2 tons per day

Security Level FAQs For Paper Shredders

Security Level 1 (for shredding general internal documents):
Security Level 2 (for shredding sensitive internal documents): StripCut - 1/8''
Security Level 3 (for shredding confidential documents): Crosscut - 1/4'' x 1/8''
Security Level 4 (For shredding secret documents): Crosscut - 1/8" x 1 1/8"
High Security Level 5 (for shredding of extremely confidential documents):Crosscut - 1/16" x 5/8"
High Security Level VI (Approved by the DOD for top secret shredding):Crosscut - 1/32 x 7/16"