Our Products

Passport Issuing System

More than ten countries including the USA, New Zealand the UAE and South Africa have adopted Toppan's fully ICAO compliant passport issuing system. A combination of patented processes, ease of use and robustness of the machines sets our passport issuing system apart from our competitors. All processes, including IC chip encoding, are carried out inside the one machine, adding to both speed and security. Adoption of this system for the issuance of U.S. passports and U.S. Department of Defense ID cards attests to the highly advanced level of our technological capabilities in this field. For moreinformation on these machines, please visit the website of our distributors, G.E.T.

Desktop Card Printers

Toppan offers 2 different types of desktop card printers –Direct Transfer and Indirect Transfer printers.

Dye-sublimation Direct Transfer Printers
CP1700, 1750

• In spite of it’s many functions, the machine takes up no more than the size of an A4 piece of paper
• Thanks to its light weight, the CP-1700 can be installed and moved easily.
• The cost of ribbons can be kept to a minimum
• Changing ribbons is simple
• Printing can take place as close as 0.2mm from the edge of the card
• Each colour is realised through CMY dot density.
• The wide realm of colour reproduction ensures vivid colours
• Light and neutral colours can also be easily reproduced

Indirect Pigment Transfer Printers

CP400

Toppan's experiences as the world's leading printing company are incorporated into the production of this desktop card printer. The CP400 adopts 600dpi high resolution for the highest quality text printing as well as CMYK resin thermal transfer (pigment ink) for durable and sharp facial images. The indirect transfer method used is ideal for printing contac and contacless chip cards. To be put in touch with our exclusive distributors please contact us.

Smart Cards

Toppan is proud to have made the very first Smart Card in Japan in 1983, and has been offering its customers tailor made IC solutions, from planning, to development to production, ever since. (SmarticS is the name given to the Toppan range of Smart Cards developed in Japan)

The Line-up

Smartics-Mu Series

A series of multi-application Multos standard contact Smart Cards with either 16KB or 32KB memories.

Smartics-JV

A Mulit-aplication contact card for use with a JAVA OS.  Memory size: 31 KB.

Mifare Card

Complying with ISO 14443, this is a type-A Mifare contactless Smart Card, with a 1KB memory and anti-collision capabilities (ie 2 cards of this type be placed on a reader at once and read as separate cards).

Smartics-Fe

The favoured format for contactless cards in Japan,  we currently produce Felica cards for transport and e-wallet applications.  Memory sizes range between 1.2KB and 2.4KB, and these cards are also equipped with anti-collision.

In addition to the range above, we are constantly developing new cards to meet our customers’ requirements.  Our hybrid cards are an example of this:

Contact and contactless 2-chip hybrid card		Contact and contactless, dual-interface single-chip hybrid card*

RFID Blocking Paper

Toppan has developed a 0.2mm thick anti-skimming protection paper for use with Smart Cards,  e-passports or other RFID products. Whether the paper is placed on top of or underneath the smartcard, communication between the antenna and a reader will be rendered impossible.

Holograms and Brand Protection

Toppan’s holograms have received high acclaim abroad as well as in Japan due to their sophisticated level of technology.  As a pioneer in cutting-edge technologies for holograms, Toppan is able to offer holograms for a diverse range of markets, from bank notes to event tickets, always with the goal of  staying one step ahead of the would-be counterfeiters.  Our holograms are available in a variety of forms, such as seals stickers or foils.

• Below is a selection of the types of holograms we produce, but if you have something specific in mind, please contact us directly with your requirements.  We are sure to be able to meet them.

Crystagrams®

• Technology that produces original OVD plates using electronic beams (EB) used in the manufacture of semiconductor components.
• Since electronic beams can write more than 1,000 fringe patterns per millimetre, it is possible to produce highly detailed, high resolution images.
• Crystagrams offer a wide range of design possibilities and excellent anti-counterfeiting effectiveness.
• 3-change patterns (ie 3 different images depending on the angle at which it is viewed)
• Micro-text
• Sine System design (Sine is a system that uses a computer to produce detailed patterns for negotiable certificates and relief and other high-precision patterns) 
• Very specialised, costly equipment is necessary to produce crystagrams, which means that they are highly effective in deterring forgery and counterfeiting.  All of our holograms are a form of the crystagram.
• Uses: Banknotes, passports, ID cards, product authentication etc.

Photocolour Holograms

• Holograms that glimmer with the natural colour and shimmering luminance of photographic data.
• By applying grating images and controlling the luminance and grating direction of pixels in response to the 3 primary colours, photocolour holograms reproduce natural colours by creating additive colour mixtures.
• Skin and other neutral colours an be reproduced with 256 gradations.
• Used in combination with conventional grating images, can be used to achieve impressive synergistic design effects.
• Holograms can be produced directly from photographic data .
• Actual uses: Packaging, stickers, ID cards, product authentication, gift certificates etc.

Platinumgrams

• The special hue setting of the pixels in response to colour and the special arrangement (patent pending) create an additive colour mixture, producing a silver-white luminance.
• Platinungrams are easy to distinguish at a glance from rainbow holograms, which are becoming more and more commonplace.
• Platinumgrams’ distinctive silver-white luminance is reproduced using proprietary Toppan technology that arranges the micro-gratings.  As a result, platinumgrams are a more effective anti-counterfeiting deterrent than conventional holograms.
• Actual uses: gift certificates, product authentication, ID cards using overlay processing.

Pearlgrams

• This is a new type of Crystagram technology and consists of a number of optical elements such as diffusion and absorption of light , in addition to light diffraction.
• Pearlgrams have matt white brightness, thus allowing fine details of graphics and rich colour tones.  This in turn allows greater freedom with design.
• By combining the existing Crystagram, and by making use of the difference in brightness ranges, any forgery can be detected easily.
• Actual uses: ID cards with an overlay, passports etc.

“Holoface” Cards

• The entire surface of one side of the card is a hologram
• The layers of the hologram are formed on top of overlay printing which hides the magnetic tape.  This means that both the hologram and the printing are visible.  The resulting effect is that the card appears to have lots of layers and depth.

Double Shift Sticker

• The double shift sticker is a low cost but high security alternative to a hologram.
• Depending on the angle at which you view the sticker, not only does the colour change, so does the image (in the case below, the colour changes from bronze to green, and the lower letter from T to P)
• Because no specialist equipment is required to authenticate the sticker, it is very inexpensive and quick to implement as a brand protection system.  In addition the authenticity of the product can be checked by the consumer themselves with the naked eye.