Plastic card equipment

	Card Issuance
	PowerForward provides high speed plastic card equipment to meet the needs of card service bureaus, in-house card issuers and card manufacturers.

Plastic Card Equipment for Verification and Mailing

Billions of plastic cards are issued annually - ID cards, drivers' licenses, gift cards, etc. Many of these cards are personalized and mailed to the recipient. If your company issues more than 5 million flat cards annually, it is a potential customer for PowerForward plastic card equipment.

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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 flat plastic card types, sizes and shapes
Complete verification while maintaining production speed
Creation of personalized carriers, enveloping and integration with commercial machine
Speeds up to 15,000 cards per hour

The personalization and mailing features of the system can also be used - without cards - to mail notifications, statements or other documents to customers.

PowerForward will interface its card issuance equipment 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.

Plastic Card Equipment for Special Applications

PowerForward can adapt its 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.

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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.

More Detailed Specifications

Card Types

• Flat, encoded personalized card (financial, loyalty, ATM)
• Smart cards (RFID, CPU, GSM, contactless)
• Magnetic stripe or 2D bar codes
• Minicards and geometrically shaped cards
• 10 mil, Teslin, phone cards and others

Card Reading

• 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

• Optionally encode the card’s magnetic stripe or microprocessor chip

Verification

• 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

• Cards attached to specified location on the carrier
• One or two cards per carrier

Card Control Software

• 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