Plastic Card Issuance Equipment
 

ID Cards, Drivers' licenses, Social Security  . . .


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 system issues millions of flat cards a year.
  • Card Verification System checks cards and (optionally) encodes them. This system enhances the security of valuable cards.

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ICAM Card System for Verification, Personalization & Mailing

Integrated multi-function module 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 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 notifications, 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 prepare them for mailing (or shipping) in a second high 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 if needed.

  • Feeds and reads mag stripe 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
  • Encodes magnetic stripe (optional)
  • Tracks all cards for 100% reconciliation


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