Gemplus Card International

Gemplus

Impika

Boxal France Sas

Gemalto Sa

Paul Morgavi

Michel Berthozat

Jean-Jacques Oubrayrie

Jean-Paul Marietti

Andre Samat

Christian Gustave Leriche

Isabelle Corniglion

Philippe Sarra-Bournet

Luc Vanon

Robert Guguelmetti

Armand Gellis

The invention relates to a device for printing by transfer onto a print support () comprising at least one blanket () driven in a sequential relative movement past a magazine () conveying the print supports (), in which device the blanket () has a surface area greater than that of the print support (), the device further comprising digital printing means () which print by spraying ink onto this blanket () over a variable area equal to that of the print support ().

Device and method for printing by transfer onto a cylindrical printing medium

A graphic printing machine and method for a card-type storage medium employs a jet printing head and a controller to perform ink jet printing on the medium. The invention is useful for printing plastic or cardboard or paper cards.

Graphic printing machine for card-type storage medium, method for printing said storage media and storage media

The personalisation of intelligent portable objects such as smart cards is performed on a device having a support with, on one of its faces, locations intended to receive the objects ( ) to be personalised. Remote from this face, equipment for electrical personalisation ( ) of the objects is disposed. A graphical printing station is provided to operate upon objects located on the support, which is moved with respect to the graphical printing station ( ). The electrical personalisation and the graphical printing take place at lest in part simultaneously.

Concurrent electrical customization and graphic printing of a smart card

A method for producing blocks on a support that are designed to be removed by scratching. An ink jet printing technique is used to produce the blocks. The ink used is of the type with phase change. The method can be used to form a support containing an information or a graphic design on its surface and a scratchable block masking the information or graphic design. The scratchable block consists of juxtaposed and/or superposed dots of material. The method is particularly applicable to smart cards.

Method for making scratchable blocks and support comprising same

The invention concerns a method for cross-linking photosensitive inks in particular polymersible inks ( ) by ultraviolet radiation consisting in a step ( ) inking dots ( ) on a base ( ) and a subsequent step consisting in applying a concentrated ultraviolet beam ( ) on the inked dots ( ), except for the base non-inked surfaces ( ). The beam is in particular an ultraviolet laser beam. The invention is applicable to jet dot-matrix printing and polychromy.

Ink cross-linking by UV radiation

Method for printing on a portable data medium, particularly a smart

Thermal dye transfer printing method with electrical loss compensation

In a machine for the color printing of cards, the different primary colors borne by the ribbon are deposited on the card by successive operations in which this card passes beneath the same thermal printer head by a series of back-and-forth motions. To this end, the primary colors of a sequence are separated by separators which are different from the indicators between each sequence, and these separators and indicators are detected by a detection device.

Color printing machine

The invention concerns automatic systems for printing both sides of cards in black and white and in color. It comprises a black-and-white printing machine next to a color printing machine, each machine incorporating a thermal printing head, in front of which travel simultaneously a ribbon holding colorants to be deposited and the card to be printed, and at least one card-reversing device placed before or after a machine. The invention can be used for bank card printers.

Automatic system for front-and-back printing of cards in black and white

A system controls the winding of a ribbon on a receiver reel rotationally driven by a stepping motor. The ribbon has successive indicators at regularly spaced intervals on the ribbon. A detection device, having two spaced optical cells at a predetermined distance between them, detects the passage of an indicator between the cells. A microprocessor counts the number of steps of the stepping motor that have been necessary to achieve movement of an indicator between the optical cells. The microprocessor also computes the number of pulses to be applied to the stepping motor per unit time to achieve a constant speed of the ribbon as it passes between cells.

System and method for controlling the winding of a ribbon on a receiver

The machine is a card printer that carries out simultaneous black-and-white or color printing on both faces of a card. This machine uses two identical printers of the type using thermal printing heads and ribbons placed on either side of a device to guide and convey the card to be printed on. A device for the simultaneous positioning of the thermal printing heads enables each ink-bearing ribbon to be applied against one of the faces of the card when it comes under the heads. The invention can be applied to bank cards, entry cards, telephone cards.

Simultaneous two-face printing machine

Programming process for integrated memory, particularly for a smart card

A cleaning card for a card-printing machine associated with a station for the electrical customization of the cards. The cleaning card has dimensions substantially identical to those of the cards to be printed, and is coated with two cleaning flat pads. The first cleaning flat pad, on both sides of the card, collects and retains various types of dust and dirt. The second cleaning flat pad, on the face designed to receive the electrical customization at the locations defined by the standards, is adapted to the cleaning of the landing contacts.

Cleaning card for printing machine and for a work station for the

A device for improving a system for controlling the winding of a ribbon on a take-up reel. This device is particularly designed to obviate the phenomenon of clinging between a ribbon and the face of a card to be printed on, during an operation of printing by the thermal transfer of inks carried by the ribbon. For that purpose, the vertical shift of the ribbon is detected by a sensor associated with an optical detection device. The detection of this shift prompts the modification, in a circuit, of the number of steps per time unit of the step motor.

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La Ciotat, France

Paul Morgavi