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Color printing on ID cards and passport, based on 100% polycarbonate Muehlbauer presents new, market-ready personalization technology for highest fraud resistance

Wednesday 14. May 2008 - Muehlbauer Technology Group is an international and independent consultant and manufacturer of innovative security solutions for the TECURITY market. The company announces the market launch of a ground-breaking color printing technology for personalizing Smart Cards and passport holder pages, which base on 100% polycarbonate.

This technology sets a new milestone in the area of card and passport personalization! Besides various well-known security features, it’s now possible to enhance security-relevant documents even more by personalizing e.g. a colored photo onto polycarbonate material.

Smart Cards and passports based on polycarbonate guarantee a maximum of durability for fulfilling the recommondations of the ICAO concerning a long lifetime. After the color print is attached, the remaining data can be personalized for example by a highly secure laser engraving process. In addition a secure overlay can be applied. By using contacted or contactless chip technology in combination with this new process, the result is an absolutely high quality ID document. Due to the highest resolution of color printing and laser engraving as well as the longtime durability of the polycarbonate material it is impossible to counterfeit these documents.

This innovative process is integrable into Muehlbauer personalization solutions for Smart Card and ePassport, meeting the future requirements on high quality ID document production.

Again, Muehlbauer confirms its role of being the optimal equipment, software and know-how supplier and a pioneer in developing state-of-the-art and innovative technologies. This is proven in more than 100 ID projects, where the company was highly involved in.

Muehlbauer offers an exclusive manufacturer service. With production and service locations on five continents a reaction time of down to 2 hours is achieved. Worldwide spare parts repositories and individual service and financing concepts round-off the unique portfolio for all services around the main product.

See & believe! At our show rooms and applications centers all over the world, such as in Germany, Malaysia, South Africa and the US, the company shows its competence in the complete Smart Card & ePassport production and personalization process. Customers can experience live on more than 20,000 square meters, what Muehlbauer is able to do. Almost any system is available, ready to show its performance. Additionally, the company drives its know-how directly to the customers with the TECURITY EXPRESS show truck – a mobile high security production center, unrivaled worldwide.

Investing in Muehlbauer equipment maximizes your Return-On-Investment. Muehlbauer has years of experience in technological innovative solutions in all sectors of Smart Card and passport. Muehlbauer is in the position to deliver any customized solution from one source within shortest reaction times. Thousands of companies and governments all over the globe trust in the know-how of Muehlbauer, as we are the main supplier for the worldwide banking and telco industry as well as for the complete Government ID market.

http://www.muehlbauer.de
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