The MC10 is a newly developed and affordable desktop unit that allows users to simultaneously personalize up to 10 smart cards, thus offering similar productivity levels to that of many smart card modules of larger card issuance systems.

The reduced cycle time allows the MC10 to maintain a high throughput even when performing complex programming operations, such as EMV and multi-application smart cards.

The mechanism works as an “elevator” by which two 5-station smart card modules raise one station at the time until all 10 stations have been loaded, upon which each module descends to its initial position. At this point the first card, now fully personalized, is transferred to the vertical output hopper and replaced by a new card, and the process described above is repeated.

An ISO standard magnetic stripe encoding and reading module (HiCo/LoCo, tracks 1,2 and 3) makes it possible to perform both smart card and magnetic stripe encoding in a single step or, more importantly, to feed pre-personalized cards with magnetic stripe into the MC10, which then reads the information encoded, identifies, collects and encodes the “smart card data” onto the chip. This unique feature of the MC10, makes it ideal as a complementary unit to existing card issuance systems.

Cards issuers can complete all traditional elements of card personalization (magnetic stripe encoding, embossing/indent, thermal printing, topping, etc.) with their existing systems, and then feed these pre-personalized cards into the MC10 to complete the smart card personalization process.

Matica cooperates with some of the largest smart card industry solution providers to offer complete EMV card personalization solutions. The MatiCard® Windows-based card production software provides user-friendly interface between the operator and the MC10.