Credit card reader products from ID TECH are completely housed computer peripherals that simply plug into a PC or laptop. Our credit card reader units can sit on a countertop, be attached to a vertical surface with Velcro, or mounted with screws. You can also find credit card reader units here that are sealed for the riggers of outdoor use. These versatile units decode up to three tracks of information in single swipe. A long stainless steel card guide ensures better information registration and minimizes alignment problems. These units offer magnetic stripe data that is output to a standard RS-232 serial interface. The verification status is signaled by a series of three LED indicators on the credit card reader.
Around the world, ID TECH credit card readers can be found in a wide range of environments; from traditional POS to cutting-edge kiosk and gaming applications. Our easy mag intelligent credit card readers are designed for busy retail environments where speed and dependability are equally important. Its standard length slot makes it easier for anyone to swipe and get a good read on their very first try. Yet its unique flat-edge case design makes these credit card readers easy to flush mount along a keyboard or monitor. They’re found everywhere that you need to identify, verify, give access to, or even store value; ID TECH credit card readers are part of the solution.
ID TECH’s a leader in smart card reader and magnetic swipe technology. Building dependable, feature-rich products has made ID TECH is a leading manufacturer of magnetic stripe, smart card reader and bar code products for OEMs, VARs, distributors, and major end users. Founded in 1991, ID TECH now employs people in many locations such as California, Ohio, Taiwan, and China. The company has built a reputation for technical excellence through its development of an outstanding research and design engineering staff. Currently, there are numerous smart card reader and R&D engineers available for software, firmware, hardware, and mechanical engineering design. In addition, customers are actively supported by experienced sales representatives and a knowledgeable smart card reader technical support team.
The minimag magstripe reader can view up to three tracks of information with a single swipe in either direction. It has a standard length slot that makes it easy to use. Both beeper and LED indicators signal a successful transaction. This magstripe reader delivers exceptional functionality and value in the smallest possible package. It can be used as a free-standing unit, or permanently mounted using the threaded inserts in the bottom of the reader. The cable can exit through the bottom of the magstripe reader for ease of placement. The entire unit is 90mm long giving it the smallest footprint of any magstripe reader unit with comparable features.
ID TECH magstripe card reader delivers superior read rates and outstanding reliability. With more than 80 years of combined magstripe card reader design experience has made ID TECH products the industry standard for dependability and value. The MiniMag compact magstripe card reader is just 90mm long, yet it reads up to three tracks with a single swipe. It also has the same data editing and formatting features usually found only on larger units. In addition to rugged, sealed housing, they have a metal base with tapped holes and rubber feet, and can be Velcro mounted. In more than 1,000,000 cycles our magstripe card reader has been proven reliable.
ID TECH swipe card reader products are sold worldwide through direct sales, distributors, product representatives, and agents. ID TECH provides both standard and custom swipe card reader solutions to support customer requirements. Recently, the company moved to a new 40,000 sq. ft. building located 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles in Orange County, California. This has effectively quadrupled capacity for design, engineering, marketing, administration, and warehousing of our swipe card reader units. Major manufacturing activities remain based in Taiwan, while assembly, quality assurance, service, and support capabilities are maintained in California. We’re one of the fastest growing manufacturers in the swipe card reader industry.
A leading manufacturer of insert reader and un-housed magnetic stripes called rails and decode chips designed to be integrated into equipment designed and built by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). These and other OEM insert reader products are available directly from ID TECH. ID TECH's focus has always been to produce dependable, high-performance products for leading-edge applications. The company places an emphasis on hybrid technologies (such as combined magnetic stripe-smart card units) and can accommodate orders for large quantities of insert reader units direct to the customer.
A contactless reader is ideal for access control, time keeping, banking, ID, recognition and credit verification and related applications. Our contactless reader is designed to offer friendly solutions of high and low coercively cards that will attractively complement an existing system. These contactless reader products have been tested and found to comply with the limits designed to provide protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. It also complies with agency requirements of specification for CE mark Class B. We have selected the most useful features and function and incorporated them into our contactless reader.
ID TECH is creating pin pad products of exceptional quality and product reliability and those values has help fuel ID TECH's remarkable growth and as a leading manufacturer of automatic identification products, it was a natural step for ID TECH to develop a pin pad product, which can utilize our expertise in MagStripe and Smart Card technologies. Our pin pad technology shines in our SecurePIN products that are always PCI certified, which guarantees the highest security protection from fraud and attack. This technology incorporates tamper-detection sensors to oppose any unauthorized intrusion, as well as a fixed firmware command set that prevents any illegal operation of your pin pad unit.
Our magstripe readers have two magnetic heads to enable them to write and verify data with a single pass. These magstripe readers are capable of en-coding any of three tracks at either 75 or 210 BPI densities. Many of the magstripe readers have a stainless steel wear surface to ensure long life, accurate data registration, and minimized alignment problems. The unit verifies the written stripe data in ISO/ANSI or user defined formats and it configures with Windows based operating software, and is compatible with ISO/ANSI, AAMVA, and California DMV formats. Data is output to a standard RS-232 serial interface on these magstripe readers.
Our USB smart card reader is tiny but rugged. Our USB smart card reader is designed to read and write to Integrated Circuits (ICC), memory or microprocessor, conforming to ISO 7816 standards. But because it's just about an inch deep, it fits in the smallest possible space. This USB smart card reader is the smallest unit proven to deliver reliable performance to more than 1,000,000 transaction cycles. The reader's chassis is molded from a glass and lubricant-filled engineering plastic that supports a landing-style connector and seated switch. The seated switch provides dependable confirmation of full chip-to-connector contact for trouble-free USB smart card reader transactions.
