Datacard Corporation

Jeffrey J Rust

Henry V Holec

Alan Meilach

Gary Paul Mattila

Brian Beech

Rodney J LeVasseur

Cory Dean Wooldridge

Eric J Freudenheim

Richard M Wetzel

An improved card feeding apparatus and associated method for feeding plastic cards to a printer. The apparatus can be used in any system where plastic cards are fed into a printer, but has particular use in a self-service, automated card issuance kiosk. The apparatus includes a support structure, and a card cassette is mounted on the support structure for holding a plurality of cards. The card cassette is moveable relative to the support structure, with the card cassette defining a discrete position for each card. A card picker is mounted on the support structure, with the card picker being capable of picking any one of the plurality of cards from the card cassette. Since each card has a discrete position within the card cassette, the card cassette can be moved past the card picker and any one of the cards within the card cassette can be picked by the card picker, and subsequently fed to a printer to personalize the card.

Virtual multihopper card feeder

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for parallel initialization of integrated circuit cards along a card transfer path.

Method and apparatus for parallel integrated circuit card initialization

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Brooklyn Park, MN, United States of America

Jeffrey J Rust