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What is Securitized Identification Card

Identification Card Personalization: A highly secure card management system is needed for the production management and personalization of important citizens document such as an ID card. Every stage of the card personalization process and every single card must be accounted for. PSSIC will have one of the most advance card management system to control the life cycle of the card personalization process.

The processs are:

– Data Preparation – Data gets formatted to the correct format standards.
– Digital Signing – Digital signing to protect the integrity and authenticity of the data.
– Electronic Personalization – Encoding of data (e.g. Applicant’s details and fingerprints) into the chip of the eID card.
– Graphical Personalization – Data will be printed onto the eID card according to the layout configured in the personalization printers.

Keys will be generated through a HSM (Hardware Security Module) via a KMS (Key Management Systems) and all encrypted digital data that flows through the systems will be encrypted through advance cryptography technologies.

This ensures the correct citizen data goes to the correct card. The chip of the ID card gets correctly encoded, and the front and back of the ID card get correctly personalized with the Citizen’s demographic data. All quality rejects and every single card throughout the entirely process is strictly accounted for.

What is Advanced Identification Card Features?

Using Toppan T-code—a high density 2D barcode systems, any law enforcer has the ability to verify the authenticity of any citizen’s ID card through a mobile phone in online/offline situations, without incurring huge cost and major infrastructure changes to the current system. This can easily be deployed and is easy to use.

What is Passports Capability?

Full Color UV Printing Enablement: A full color photographic printing in UV (Ultraviolet) colors for Passport VISA Pages. This is a very specialized and unique process developed by Toppan. The effect is particularly hard to achieve and Toppan is the only one in the industry who is able to print a photographic UV quality picture. Toppan will enable PSSIC with the necessary Prepresses and the necessary knowledge transfer and know-how to print the VISA Pages.

Wide Variety of Security Printing Features Enablement

PSSIC will have the capability to print a wide variety of covert and overt security features in-house such as, normal one color UV printing, Guilloche Printing, Microtext, Raster Printing, Artscreen Printing, Aura Printing, Rosette Printing, Line screen modulation, Relief Printing, edge registration and UV edge registration.

PSSIC will also be able to print the more advance security features such as Full color UV printing and Hidden Images which requires special devices to decode the images. PSSIC will have the expertise to handle the various security papers, security inks and Foils and special security materials needed to produce the complete ePassport.

The complete Passport Binding Process will be done entirely in PSSIC’s premises with a complete line of Passport Bookbinding machines.

Bookbinding

Book Binding is a series of processes to combine the raw materials such as VISA pages, endpaper, datapages and book covers to form a complete unpersonalized blank ePassport booklet.

PSSIC will have the know-how of Sorting, Collation, Stitching, Folding, Cutting, Laser Perforation and Impact Numbering and Quality Inspections to produce a high quality complete unpersonalized ePassport Booklet.

What is ePassport Personalization?

PSSIC will house the most advanced ePassport Personalization machine needed to personalized the ePassport with Citizen’s Data. 600 DPI full color printing on the ePassport Datapage and highly secured holographic laminated will be offered.

Additional convert and overt security features will also be introduced during this stage passport personalization which includes chip and graphical encoding.

What is Scheme and Non-Scheme Cards?

Card Personalization: Also referred as “Card Issuance” is the sequence of steps that make every smart card unique. During this process individual card holder data are loaded into the chip memory, encoded into the magnetic stripe and variable data printed, engraved and embossed on the surface of the card. Magnetic Stripe Personalization: This production process encodes data on the magnetic stripe. The location, flexibility, magnetic characteristic, size, data format of the magnetic stripe are mainly defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Chip Contact Personalization: This step allows the download into the smart card chip with customer-specific information including.

• Card number
• Cardholder name
• Cardholder family name
• Cardholder birth date
• Cardholder secret key
• Card expiry date

During the chip card personalization is also possible to load application and further parameters of the Card Operating Systems and its application.

Chip Contactless Personalization: When the card to personalize have only a contactless chip (no contacts pads) the card personalization is executed by means of one or multiple contactless card readers. The most common communication protocols between the card reader and the contactless card is defined by the ISO/IEC 14443 series.

Direct-To-Card Printing: This the most common type of printing technology and it’s chosen for its good quality photographic results. The printing process uses thermal transfer to transport varying amounts of colored dye pigments from a carrier ribbon, or film, to the PVC printing surface to which the dyes bond chemically.

Retransfer Printing: Also known as Reverse Transfer Printing, is a higher-end technology that produces crisp, vibrantly colored, high-definition cards. Like dye sublimation, the retransfer printing method uses a heated printhead and ribbon. But unlike dye sublimation, retransfer printer adds an additional step with a clear film.

Laser Engraving: A technology that burns data into a card. It enables standard text and images to be added as well as special security features such as microtext, tactile data, perforated images, and variable images that change with different viewing angles. Laser engraving can be conducted on various materials, but it works best with documents made of polycarbonate. When a laser beam is applied to the polycarbonate substrate, the heat causes a chemical reaction that essentially burns, or carbonizes, a minute area changing it from white to black. Repeated and controlled application of the laser creates the text and images within the card.

Overlay Film Application: When the card under production is intended to be used as ID Card or when is necessary to increase the life time of the card, an additional layer of transparent protective material can be added on a single or both sides. The overlay application can be done within the direct-to-card printing process – in this case the overlay film is included with the color panels – or as separate step.

Embossing / Indent: This process creates a three-dimensional effect to letters and numbers on the card surface. The embossing is very popular for credit card, debit cards, loyalty and membership, rarely for ID Cards and Driving License Cards.

Tipping: This is the application of color on top of the embossed text applying – by means of a hot stamping pad – a colored film. The film for tipping are offered in limited colors such as black, white, gold, silver, red, blue

Scratch Panel Application: This is a heat-process foil stamp that can be eliminated with the edge of a coin to expose the preprinted number or text underneath it. A basic or custom shaped die presses the foil onto the surface area of the scratch card, which leaves the foil in the particular shapes. Concealed details are readily available after getting rid of the top layer on the scratch panel. Scratch plastic card data can be pin numbers, codes, sequential numbering, barcodes, names, winning numbers, and names.

Label Application: This process applies an adhesive label on the card. This is a popular card personalization step for cards that needs an activation process, thus the popular name of “Activation Labels”. The labels can be with or without a text message. The preprinted labels can carry messages such as “To activate this card please call 111-222-333-444”.

What is Augmented Reality Markers?

Augmented Reality Markers provide a single consistent method for all citizens to receive the latest update and news from the Government. The Government will be able to use the AR markers to do direct marketing to the citizens.