Oberthur Technologies Expands Single Source Card Solution to Include DoD Printing

LAS VEGAS, February 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oberthur Technologies, a global leader of manufacturing and personalization services, now offers Drop-on-Demand (DoD) printing to provide more options for customers looking for a single vendor to provide card design, manufacturing, personalization, fulfillment and inventory management.

The new high speed, UV-curable ink jet printer for card personalization allows Oberthur Technologies to target prepaid and non-secure customers. The increased printing capabilities provide additional printing and design options, allowing the company to meet new demands as they arise.

"Oberthur Technologies' experience in the rapidly growing prepaid segment indicated that DoD printing would fulfill a key customer need," said Martin Ferenczi, Managing Director, Americas, Card Systems Division at Oberthur Technologies. "Our new DoD printing option further strengthens our ability to offer non-secure customers a single source solution, from card design to fulfillment."

Oberthur Technologies' single source solution include Smart Design, which provides skilled card designers to create a full range of creative design ideas for your cards while utilizing Smart Plastics, Oberthur's comprehensive range of innovative card bodies, finishes and inks. Additionally, Oberthur Technologies provides a state-of-the-art, ISO 9001 and 14001-certified manufacturing facility in Exton, PA., and a service center for card personalization in Chantilly, VA that produces eye-catching and ultra-secure j-hook packaging, including Oberthur's patent-pending Smart Seal.

Oberthur Technologies will be exhibiting its single source solution at this year's Prepaid Card Expo, (booth #426), which opens today at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas with a keynote address from former President Bill Clinton.

About Oberthur Technologies

With sales of 882 million Euros in 2008, Oberthur Technologies is a world leader in the field of secure technologies. Innovation and high quality services ensure Oberthur Technologies' strong positioning in its main target markets:

    - Card Systems: The world's second largest provider of security
      and identification based on smart card technology and associated
      services for mobile, payment, transport, digital TV and convergence
      markets.
    - Identity: Leading international supplier for the manufacture and
      personalization of secure identity documents such as passport, identity
      card, driving license or health care card - traditional and electronic
      - and associated services for both governmental and corporate markets.
    - Security printing: World's third largest private security printer
      specialized in high security for the production of banknotes, checks
      and other fiduciary documents in more than fifty countries.
    - Cash protection: World leader in the emerging market of
      intelligent systems to secure cash-in-transit and ATM.

Close to its customers, Oberthur Technologies benefits from an industrial and commercial presence across all five continents.

Oberthur Technologies S.A. is a limited liability company (societe anonyme) registered in France with its registered office at 50 quai Michelet 92 532 Levallois Perret, France. Oberthur Technologies S.A.'s corporate registration number is 340 709 534 R.C.S. Nanterre.

Website: http://www.oberthur.com

SOURCE Oberthur Technologies