Datacard® PB8500™ Passport Issuance System
Secure global travel with a high-speed passport issuance system that offers security, personalization, and true field modularity.
The ultimate passport platform for scalable modularity
The PB8500 System is the industry’s most scalable and flexible passport personalization platform. This system provides a powerful suite of solutions to governments and integrators as they design and implement new passport issuance programs.
Key Features
Durable and Secure
Protect critical passport information with highly secure overlays and powerful adhesives.
Flexible Issuance
Use multiple input trays and selective picking software capabilities to run multiple booklet types.
Digital Ready
Issue e-passports. Encode a variety of manufacturer’s chips.
Visually Innovative
Engraves photos, logos, tilted images (CLI, MLI, 3D photos), text, and bar codes, as well as laser ablated images and a wide variety of security features.
Secure Issuance and Borders
Photo Optimization stops imposters at borders. Logical security protects proprietary information.
Issue Faster and Spend Less
Innovative, high-speed laser requires no external cooling. Inkjet module transport is ultra-smooth.
Tech Specs
The Datacard PB8500 Passport System includes a comprehensive range of technologies to choose from. Integrate a combination of these technologies to meet your program needs.
Key technologies include:
- Physical and logical security
- System controller hardware and software
- Booklet opening
- Page Turning
- Multi-book chip encoding
- Laser engraving
- Plasma Pretreat
- Drop on demand printing
- Secure overlay
- Quality assurance
- Buffer/closer