Dye sublimation printing: Personalizing contactless cards at the point of issuance
There was a time when field-printing digitized images on plastic cards was not for the faint of heart. In the early 1990s, $100,000 could buy 4 non-networked photo-capture and print stations, churning-out black and white images and text onto plastic cards. In-line magstripe encoding? No. Duplex printing? Think again. Crystal-clear color photo’s and high resolution artwork? Not yet.
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