Gift Cards, ID Cards, Drivers' licenses, Smart Cards . . .
PowerForward provides high speed plastic card equipment to meet the needs of card service bureaus, in-house card issuers and card manufacturers.
Intelligent Card Affixing Module (ICAM) integrates with your mailing line. This mass issuance system processes millions of flat cards a year. All types (except embossed financial cards) including: gift cards, loyalty cards, membership cards, ID cards, drivers licenses, social security cards or health cards. These may be smart cards, however, ICAM does not read the chip.
Card Verification System checks flat cards and (optionally) encodes magnetic stripes. This system enhances the security of valuable cards.
Latest New Feature: PowerForward's plastic card equipment now supports
enhanced card authentication by capturing the reference MagnePrint.
ICAM Card System for Verification, Personalization & Mailing
Running Government Cards at 10,000 per hour
Integrated multi-function card system for processing flat plastic cards . . . from feeding and reading cards (in any order) through sealing and metering envelopes.
Full range of flat plastic card types, sizes and shapes
Complete verification (using card ID in mag-stripe or printed on card face) while maintaining production speed
Creation of personalized carriers, affixing 1 or 2 cards, enveloping and integration with commercial mail inserter
Integrated with your existing software and databases
Speeds up to 15,000 cards per hour
The personalization and mailing features of the system can also be used (without cards) to mail correspondence, statements or other documents to customers.
ICAM Integration with your Mailing Machine
The ICAM is designed for card issuers who have decided to manufacture their cards as a separate initial step. And then prepare them for mailing (or shipping) in a second higher speed operation.
The PowerForward ICAM System is built around your mailing machine – either your existing equipment or a new machine that you have selected. We can integrate most conventional mailing machines into our systems – Kern, Pitney Bowes, Böwe Bell + Howell, Mail Crafters, and others. (Left and right-hand models are available.)
The throughput of the system is controlled by the mailing machine with the goal of keeping the whole integrated system running at full speed without stoppages or gaps, even when problems occur in assembling the input for mailing.
Card Verification System
This stand-alone system includes the verification components of a full card issuing system, plus an encoding function for magnetic stripes if needed.
Feeds and reads cards, rejecting those that are not readable
Checks database to verify card number and diverts cards that are: duplicates, not found, or specified to be pulled
Verifies card face using vision system and rejects defective cards
