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ND4030 print, encode and issue thermal coated paper and plastic contactless smart tickets.
Developers Kit Now Available including: printer, SDK software and Mifare Ultralight smart tickets
ND4030 Contactless Smart Ticket support (optional ITSO library)
- Supported cards include - Mifare Classic, Mifare Ultralight, Mifare 4K, MIfare 1K, Mifare Pro and Pro X, JCOP 30, JCOP 31, DESFire, Sharp SJCard, SR176, ST19WR66 and many more
Plastic is not the only smart card or smart media solution.
Newbury Data, manufacturer of the ND4020 UK rail ticket printer, has recently launched the ND4030, the company’s first entry into contactless smart ticket printing market.
Newbury Data believe they are ideally placed to support system integrators develop low cost paper based contactless smart ticket printing applications to support any current or future requirements.
The ND4030 supports various integrated cards (IC’s) including Philips MiFARE Ultralight and 1K. The ND4030 is targeting mass transit and event management, offering the opportunity to have one ticket that combines transport and access to an event, such as travel and entry by Rail or Bus to Football matches or the Olympics etc.
Newbury Data has developed a paper smart card ticketing solution, which enables the ticket to be personalised with user details, including the journey details, to be printed on to the ticket. Currently, the general public’s exposure to smart card technology has been in the form of plastic cards, such as the Oyster Card, which has rapidly become popular with London’s residents.
However, while the plastic solutions are reasonably expensive to produce and requires deposit for the card, the ND4030 is able to bring all the benefits of a contactless system using plastic smart card, but in the form of a paper ticket. And using paper results in a much lower unit cost.
Printed tickets benefit the passengers and customers because the journey details are on the ticket, this is essential when the journey travels through part of a transport network that is not supported by an integrated transport system, or to simply advise the passenger or guard of the travel details when a reader is not present to validate the ticket.
We believe the “single” ticket paper printing and encoding technology is unique to us and in the summer we will be releasing a mobile version. The printer at present is a desktop device for use at POS Tills and in self service kiosks.
Therefore, as the market for contactless smart card technology gathers pace, paper based systems will offer significantly lower costs to authorities and perceived downsides, such as lower ‘durability’, will prove to be unfounded. We expect the smart transport authorities to make increasing use of the paper solutions for their smart card ticketing requirements. |
