Passport Technologies Inc. needed a single member identification piece that could be read by bar code, magnetic stripe and RFID readers. They also needed to imprint variable data and/or a picture on the card.
Vanguard ID Systems provided the solution: the award-winning hybrid MagTag®Card. This card earned recognition for technical achievement at 2007 International Card Manufactures Association (ICMA) Expo. The ICMA Élan Awards for Card Manufacturing Excellence are the pinnacle of design innovation in the plastic card industry. Vanguard ID Systems was a finalist in two categories: Technical Achievement and People’s Choice.
The MagTag®Card is our patented MagTag® within the card matrix. It has a bar code, magnetic stripe and an RFID chip. This MagTag®Card has a Texas Instruments high-frequency (HF) 13.56 MHz ISO/IEC 15693 inlay embedded in layers of the Teslin® core. The card is finished with dye diffusion thermal transfer printable lamination on the front and HICO lamination on the back. The MagTag®Card can be run through a dye diffusion thermal transfer printer to imprint variable data and/or graphics.
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