Intelligent Systems to Verify and Distribute Plastic Cards

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.

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.

View Animation To see a Card Mailing System in Action

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
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

View Animation To see a Mini-card System in Action

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.

• 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

• 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
• Activation labels affixed to cards

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

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