A printer fitted with a smartcard contact station works in exactly the same way as a basic card printer. The BadgePass smartcard contact station is used to program chips to ISO
7816-2 standards.
Contact station location
The contact station is a module installed either in the factory or on site by your BadgePass dealer. It is located over the path taken by the cards and after the print head. To contact
the smartcard, the contact station descends mechanically against the smartcard. The programming sequence for a chip is always carried out before the card is printed.
Use only smartcards compliant with the ISO 7816-2 standard. Never print over the chip.