Patent ID: 8087772

Claim:
A system to assemble identification documents, said system comprising: a first ink jet printer operable to print first information on a top surface of a substrate sheet, said first ink jet printer including a print tray or input to receive the substrate sheet; a conveyor to convey the once printed substrate sheet from the first ink jet printer; a feed tray operatively associated with a second ink jet printer to receive the once printed substrate sheet from the conveyor, the once printed substrate sheet being conveyed to the feed tray to invert the substrate sheet and to position a bottom surface of the substrate sheet to receive second information from the second ink jet printer, the second ink jet printer being operable to print the second information on the bottom surface of the substrate sheet; a second conveyor to convey a twice-printed substrate sheet from the second ink jet printer to a laminator; the laminator operable to receive the twice printed substrate sheet and to provide a top laminate in contact with the top surface of the twice printed substrate sheet and a bottom laminate in contact with the bottom surface of the twice printed substrate sheet, the laminator to laminate the top laminate to the top surface of the twice printed substrate sheet and to laminate the bottom laminate to the bottom surface of the twice printed substrate sheet, wherein at least one of the substrate, top laminate and bottom laminate includes a magnetic stripe; a cutter to cut excess material from the laminated, twice printed substrate sheet, the cut, laminated twice printed substrate sheet forming the identification document; a magnetic stripe encoder to encode data in the magnetic stripe; and at least one of a scrap material collector to collect residual scrap material, a shedder to shred residual scrap material, a stacker to stack residual stack material, and a rewinder to rewind residual scrap material.