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Datacard® MX6000™ Card Issuance System

Overview

The Datacard® MX6000™ card issuance system brings together the broadest range of card personalization technologies in the industry. Use this innovative, truly modular system to bring highly differentiated custom cards to market faster and issue sophisticated secure ID cards that help fight fraud. Unique modules for verification and retransfer color printing improve customer productivity and production flexibility.

- Integrate a powerful combination of flexibility, security and plastic card printing technology.
- Personalize up to 1,500 cards per hour.
- Choose up to 26 modules per system that can be easily reconfigured to meet changing needs.

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Features

Extensive card personalization
As the flagship card personalization system in the Datacard Group portfolio, the MX6000 offers an unprecedented selection of innovative card personalization capabilities. Choose from high-resolution retransfer color card printing, direct-to-card color and monochrome card printing, laser engraving, embossing and indent printing, smart card personalization and inline application of advanced security laminates.

Artista® VHD retransfer color printing
Print brilliant, highly personalized custom cards with true edge-to-edge coverage. Start with blank white plastic card stock and produce a variety of unique custom or short run stock cards on demand.

Powerful security
Because security is paramount, the MX6000 system provides multiple ways to safeguard cardholder data, production data and access to the system itself.

Data Integrity/Quality Assurance
Internal software automatically cross checks data as it is personalized on cards to ensure data integrity. Advanced capabilities include inline card stock verification and quality assurance of personalized cards.

Inline card delivery
Use the Datacard® MXD™ or MXD™ Lite card delivery system to print forms and affix cards you can also add the MXi™ envelope insertion system to create powerful, highly personalized mail packages. All three of these systems are inline to achieve a single step operation providing superior efficiency.

Modules

System controller
The system controller features an easy-to-use graphical interface plus the hardware and software required to control the activities of each card personalization module, data and the system as a whole.

Card input module
Feeds cards into the system with high reliability. Multiple card input modules allow issuers to use different plastic card stocks to increase efficiency or add capacity for large, complex jobs.

Card cleaning module
Removes damaging dirt, dust and contaminants from both sides of each plastic card in a single pass prior to graphics or color card printing.

Magnetic stripe encoding module
Writes one to three tracks of data in parallel with read/write heads that support all ISO, AAMVA and JIS encoding formats and common coercivity requirements.

OCR-B / Bar code scanner module
Reads pre-printed serial numbers, document control numbers and bar codes on cards to secure card blanks and sends data to the controller.

Contact smart card personalization module
Programs smart card chips using state-of-the-art couplers. Supports up to 11 programming stations enabling innovative smart card applications.

Contactless smart card personalization module
Using up to six contactless programming stations, reads and writes to cards handling complex card personalization requirements efficiently.

Graphics printing module
Prints monochrome custom graphics — including text, logos, bar codes, signatures and fingerprints — on PVC cards using thermal transfer technology.

Color printing module
Prints directly on the card with dye diffusion thermal transfer technology that allows near-edge 300 dpi color printing of photos and images on custom cards, secure ID cards and other payment cards.

Artista® VHD retransfer color printing module
Creates brilliant, custom cards with true edge-to-edge, 600 dpi color images using pigment ink retransfer technology to improve quality, operational efficiency and help reduce lead times, inventory and preprinting costs.

Laser engraving module
Engraves variable-sized photos, alphanumeric text, bar codes, black-and-white logos and other graphical elements for increased card security using state-of-the-art, grayscale laser card technology.

Multi-card buffer module
Increases efficiency by holding or passing cards to maintain card order when rejects occur, or system configuration includes modules with different throughputs.

Basic topcoat module
Applies clear or holographic topcoats with full edge-to-edge coverage to protect graphics and color printed images.

CardGard™ UV-curing topcoat module
Applies full-card, state-of-the art card protective topcoat to embossed, indented or flat cards using a patented method and material to extend card life.

DuraGard™ laminate module
Improves card durability and security by applying Datacard® DuraGard® laminates that incorporate some of the most advanced card security and durability features available.

Embossing module
Ensures high-quality, ISO-compliant card embossing and indent printing with tightly aligned character-to-character spacing, consistent text height and location.

Topping module
Applies colored topping foil material to embossed characters, making them attractive and easier to read.

Vision verification module
Provides inline plastic card stock verification and quality assurance of personalized cards, which improves data integrity and helps reduce the risk of errors.

Label affixing module
Applies a wide variety of removable adhesive labels to plastic cards with accurate placement and consistent alignment.

Card flipper module
Rotates cards for back-side personalization using a front-side personalization module.

Card output module
Stacks good cards and rejected cards in separate trays. Multiple card output modules allow issuers to expand output capacity, or to allow plastic cards to be grouped for downstream processing/handling or for varying delivery methods.