Patent ID: 11938719
Assignee: ENTRUST CORPORATION
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 8:
9. A card processing system, comprising:
a card input that holds a plurality of cards to be printed, each card having an integrated circuit chip and/or a magnetic stripe;
a card output that holds a plurality of the cards that have been printed;
a drop-on-demand print station that includes at least one drop-on-demand print head, the drop-on-demand print station is configured to receive and print on one of the cards input from the card input;
a card transport that is configured to transport the one card to the drop-on-demand print station and to a printing position;
an integrated circuit chip programming system that is configured to program the integrated circuit chip of the one card and/or a magnetic stripe read/write system that is configured to read data from and/or write data to the magnetic stripe of the one card; and
a tray mounted on the card transport and configured so that the tray is positioned under the one card during printing on the one card by the at least one drop-on-demand print head, the tray projects beyond at least one edge of the one card; and
the one card is mounted on the card transport at a distance above the tray whereby the one card is not in direct physical contact with the tray.