Datacard, a leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions has announced that the Slovakian government has installed the MX6000 card issuance systems and software for its highly secure national eIDs, driver’s licenses, border crossing cards, vehicle registration cards and resident permits. The Slovakian government issues approximately 520,000 cards annually. Working with Hewlett Packard in Slovakia – who is the primary contract holder on this project – Datacard was able to propose a product configuration that meets the Slovakian government specifications for enhanced security features, as well as the criteria for speed and improved quality, according to the company. Benefits include accountability in the issuance process, more secure and higher-quality laser engraving, efficient smart card personalization and vision verification, which, they say, has greatly expedited the recording of expired or confiscated identity documents. While the systems are now used for the primary issuance of national eID cards, they also offer optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities that are used to automate the process of recording when expired or invalid documents are returned for destruction.
