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Customized Plastic Card Systems
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Intelligent Systems to Verify
and Distribute Plastic Cards
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PowerForward provides integrated plastic card systems,
smart card solutions and customized plastic card equipment
to meet the needs of card service bureaus, in-house card
issuers and card manufacturers.
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Plastic Card Mailing Systems |
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From
financial cards to smart cards, billions of plastic cards
are issued annually. Many of these cards are personalized
and mailed to the recipient. If your company issues more
than 5 million cards annually, it is a potential customer
for a PowerForward plastic card mailing system.
Whether
you are developing a new project or replacing out-dated
equipment, PowerForward can provide the end-to-end solution
for distributing your plastic cards:
- Integrated
multi-function system from feeding and reading cards
(in any order) through sealing and metering
the envelopes
- Full
range of plastic card types, sizes and shapes
- Complete
verification while maintaining production speed
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Creation of personalized carriers, enveloping and mailing
- Speeds
up to 15,000 cards per hour
The
mailing features of the system can also be used - without
cards - to mail notifications, statements or other personalized
documents to customers.
PowerForward
will interface its card mailing system to your existing
software so you do not need to modify your databases
or your software. This saves you time and money and avoids the risks associated with software
changes.
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PowerForward
can supply systems to process any type of smart card – whatever chip, amount of memory,
size, shape or material you require. These systems are
customized for your business requirements – from special-purpose
modules to fully integrated systems for mailing your
smart cards.
One example is PowerForward's Smart Card Engine - a
high-speed verification module for IC (integrated circuit)
smart cards
designed to run standalone or be integrated
with other PowerForward or customer equipment.
This new patent-pending technology
reads and verifies
chips and initializes cards as well as counts and sorts
cards at up to 10,000 per hour. It can also write smart
cards using customer-specified algorithms or databases.
The Smart Card Engine can be operated
to do multiple passes through the smart cards according to customer needs.
For example, a first pass could sort cards and divert defective or unreadable
cards.
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Customized Plastic
Card Equipment |
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PowerForward can build card modules to meet your special
needs for enhanced card verification or card packaging.
For example, we can selectively personalize and attach
a second premium card along with your primary card. See
our mini-card press release
for more information.
Just because you haven’t seen it on the market,
don’t assume that it can’t be done. Innovation
is our specialty. Call us to discuss how we help you
create successful card campaign by increasing efficiency
and eliminating errors.
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More Detailed Specifications |
Card Types
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Encoded personalized card (financial, loyalty, ATM)
• Smart cards (RFID, CPU, GSM, contactless)
• Embossed plastic (CR80, debit, retail)
• Magnetic stripe or 2D bar codes
• Minicards and geometrically shaped cards
• 10 mil, Teslin, phone cards and others
Card
Reading
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Memory and CPU cards
• Track 2 encoding or all three Hi-Co or Lo-Co
tracks
• 2D bar codes and most industry standard formats
• AAMVA standard encoding
Card
Writing/Initializing
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Optionally encode the card’s magnetic stripe or
microprocessor chip
Verification
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Card information checked versus customer data base
• Card and document inspected by vision system
• Bad cards eliminated before they become a problem
(typically 1.5%
to 4% of all cards)
Precision
Attachment
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Cards attached to specified location on the carrier
• One or two cards per carrier
• Activation labels affixed to cards
Card
Control Software
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Reads and verifies every operation in an integrated
system
• Notifies operator and diverts defective items
without interrupting
production
• Tracks and reports all cards for full reconciliation
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