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Digimarc Awards Team NiSCA Contract To Supply ID Card Printers Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Digimarc ID Systems has awarded TEAMNiSCA, a subsidiary of Kanematsu USA, a contract to provide more than 100 high-speed ID Cards printers that will be used by the Department of Motor Vehicles in Virginia to produce a new generation of secure digital driver's licenses and state identification cards.
Under the terms of the contract, TEAM NiSCA will provide Digimarc with 122 NiSCA PR5100 ID card printers and supplies at an eventual cost of $2 million. Digimarc, the prime contractor responsible for the design and integration of the new card system, plans to install the printers by April 1999. The printers are expected to generate more than 10 million driver's licenses during the next five years.
The new card system will produce a driver's license within a few minutes, while providing security features that make forgery of the license extremely difficult, according to Richard D. Holcomb, the commissioner of Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicle's.
High throughput and dual-side lamination capabilities were two key features that influenced Digimarc's decision to select the PR5100, said Kent Sharp, program manager of Digimarc ID Systems. "The ability to laminate one side of a card while the reverse side is printing is a critically important feature that met Virginia's performance requirements," he said.
Speed and the ability to imbed various security features into ID cards are the mainstays of TEAM NiSCA printers.
NiSCA's PR5100 card printer offers holographic over-lamination and other security features that make it ideal for the production of driver's licenses and other cards and badges requiring a tamper-proof design. In addition, the system's fast throughput and simplicity of operation make it ideal for on-demand, over-the-counter applications.
The NiSCA PR5100 printer is a high-volume, dual-side plastic-card printer incorporating the ID-card industry's most advanced card-printer features, including holographic security over-lamination and magnetic stripe and IC chip encoding.
Featuring a high-speed SCSI interface, the PR5100 can download data much faster than printers equipped with conventional serial and parallel interfaces. For example, a 1.6 megabyte image can be downloaded to the PR5100 in three to four seconds versus 15 to 30 seconds using a parallel interface.
For more information, contact: Rob Miskelly, TEAMNiSCA's Business Manager, at 732/271-7367 (rmiskelly@teamnisca.com); or Roy Nilson, communications manager, Digimarc ID Systems, at 781/386-5772 (nilsonr@digimarc.com).
