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HID Global and prime contractor DLRS Group win Best ID<br />

Document Award for new Irish Passport card; credit-card<br />

sized card is first and only passport deployed in Europe for<br />

border crossing<br />

DUBLIN, Ireland and AUSTIN, Texas<br />

<strong>May</strong> 10, 2016 – DLRS Group,<br />

Ireland’s leading security printer and<br />

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in<br />

secure identity solutions, today announced<br />

that the new Irish Passport<br />

Card has won the Regional Best ID<br />

Document of the Year Award 2016<br />

by Reconnaissance International at<br />

this year’s High Security Printing<br />

Conference in Bucharest, Romania.<br />

The programme’s prime contractor<br />

DLRS Group joined forces with<br />

HID Global, Absolute Graphics, and<br />

Purple Pod to design and produce<br />

Europe’s first passport card, which<br />

has been in circulation since October,<br />

2015. The award was presented<br />

to Ireland’ Passport Service Department<br />

of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<br />

The credit-card sized card is the<br />

first and only passport card deployed<br />

in Europe for border crossing. It allows<br />

Irish citizens to travel across<br />

Europe without their traditional<br />

passports. The award recognizes<br />

the Passport Card for its innovative<br />

design, the combination of state-ofthe-art<br />

technologies and a unique<br />

mobile application process. Citizens<br />

can obtain the card by applying online<br />

or through a smartphone app<br />

that allows the applicant<br />

to submit a compliant<br />

photo from a mobile device.<br />

Payments are made<br />

through a secure payment<br />

gateway.<br />

Cardholders benefit<br />

from the card’s state-ofthe-art<br />

technologies and<br />

innovative security features. The card<br />

is the first to combine optical security<br />

media and an ICAO-compliant<br />

chip, which together provide ultrahigh<br />

levels of protection against attempts<br />

at fraud and counterfeiting.<br />

Other innovations optimizing the<br />

card’s reliability, durability and security<br />

include a highly secure personalized<br />

embedded hologram photo;<br />

a unique anti-crack technology that<br />

protects the card from daily wear<br />

and tear; and direct bonding, which<br />

minimizes the space required for<br />

the RFID chip, allowing the unique<br />

combination of security features.<br />

Other security features on the<br />

passport card include the holder’s<br />

signature, a Kinegram overlay featuring<br />

a 12 string harp, specific tactile<br />

features, optically variable and<br />

thermochromic inks plus a covert<br />

diffractive image.<br />

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The new Irish passport card fits<br />

thematically with the new Irish ePassport,<br />

using some of the same imagery,<br />

representing the culture, history<br />

and people of Ireland.<br />

The Irish security printer DLRS,<br />

was the lead company in the management<br />

and delivery of the card<br />

project, partnering with HID Global<br />

Ireland, Absolute Graphics and Purple<br />

Pod. It was also the producer of<br />

Ireland’s new ePassport, which was<br />

introduced in 2013.<br />

HID Global designed and manufactures<br />

the card and also supplies<br />

the personalization software and<br />

Fargo Laser Engraving equipment<br />

– the high security personalization<br />

systems used to print and issue the<br />

cards.<br />

Austin Gormley Director of Passport<br />

Services, Department of Foreign<br />

Affairs and Trade Ireland said,

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