Q-Card Laboratories
Third Party, Independent Magstripe and Smartcard Test Lab

Magstripe/Magnetic Stripe and Smartcard Testing Laboratory

Q-Card Laboratories is a comprehensive resource to help you achieve total card quality. Our expertise includes all forms of smartcard, optical bar coding and magstripe technologies.

Q-Card Laboratories clients can purchase our line of quality test equipment, send equipment, components and materials to be tested in our card testing lab or contract for consulting work. Our experienced card testing lab staff is also available to travel to your location for onsite testing and consulting.

Our experts are available to help you solve existing quality issues, improve existing transaction systems and develop entirely new card products.

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What We Do

Magstripe Testing

Magnetic Stripe Card Characteristics

Including:
  • Raw magnetic tape
  • All ISO standards
  • Encoding and media quality
  • Encoding equipment

New Card Materials

Third Party Verification for New Card Materials

  • "Green" and "Sustainable" materials
  • BioPVC
  • Biodegradable and Compostable
  • Paper
  • Corn and other PLAs (Polylactide Acids)
  • Recycled content

Bar Code Testing


Optical Bar Coding

  • Optical Bar Codes (ISO 15415, 15416, 15426
  • Many symbologies and applications

Smart Card Testing


Chip Card Characteristics

Including:
  • Contact
  • Contactless
  • Terminals
  • RFID
  • ISO 14443 and 7816

Reader Testing

Card Reader and Component Testing

Including:
  • Reader Reliability
  • Terminals
  • Magnetic Heads
  • Chips and Antennas

Card Testing

Physical Card Characteristics

  • Impact (ANSI NCTCS 322 5.7)
  • Abrasion (ANSI NCTCS 322)
  • Color, ink and print integrity
  • Much more - contact us for details

Expert Consulting


Expert Consulting

Our engineers can provide consulting services to help you improve your quality control, troubleshoot problems, or help development new products and processes. Examples include analyisis of card manufacturing problems, new card designs, improved reliabity for readers and terminals, or better magnetic head design.

Customized Programs to Your Specific Needs

Q-Card Laboratories has helped many companies with their card production, reader or magnetic head designs, or troubleshooting issues with products or processes. Contact us to talk about what our experts can do for you.

Email us at info@q-card.com or call 570-286-7447.

Since 1988, Q-Card has designed, manufactured, and supported the most accurate transaction test equipment in the world. We have supplied test equipment to hundreds of companies all over the world.

Q-Card is the official guardian of the world's magnetic stripe standard.

Our popular Mag3x line of magstripe analyzers are used by card manufacturers, transit authorities, banks, personalizers, desktop printer manufacturers, and labs.

Our strategic partnership with Micropross allows us to offer the most advanced smart card test equipment in the world.

Learn more about Q-Card products for your facility.