ID TECH is a Leader in Magnetic Stripe and Smart Card Technology

Building dependable, feature-rich products has made ID TECH is a leading manufacturer of magnetic stripe, smart card, and bar code products for OEMs, VARs, distributors, and major end users.

Founded in 1991, ID TECH now employs more than 100 people at locations in 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 19 full-time 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 technical support team.

We're the Fastest-Growing Company in the Industry.
Creating products of exceptional reliability and value has fueled ID TECH's remarkable growth, which has averaged 30% a year over the last three years. 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.

Major manufacturing activities remain based in Taiwan, while assembly, quality assurance, service, and support capabilities are maintained in California.

Card Readers are Our Principal Products--Not a Sideline.
ID TECH's focus has always been to produce dependable, high-performance card readers for leading-edge applications. The company places an emphasis on hybrid technologies (such as combined magnetic stripe-smart card readers). Combination bar code and magnetic stripe readers as well as CCD Scanners are also part of the ID TECH product family. Known for their quality and dependability, ID TECH products are sold with an unconditional one-year warranty, parts and labor.

Readers That Deliver Superior Read Rates and Outstanding Reliability.
More than 80 years of combined reader design experience have made ID TECH readers the industry standard for dependability and value.

The MiniMag^TM Compact Magnetic Stripe Reader is just 90mm long-about the length of a credit card-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.

Omni Series Bar Code and Magnetic Stripe Readers can read bar codes and/or magnetic stripes. In addition to rugged, sealed housing, the Omni has a metal base with tapped holes and rubber feet, and can be Velcro mounted.

The EasyMag^TM Magnetic Stripe Reader is functionally similar to the MiniMag, but with a larger housing to facilitate ease of swiping in high-usage environments.

Spectrum^TM Hybrid Insert Readers can read and decode up to three tracks of magnetic stripe data conforming to ISO7810 and 7811 standards, and read and write to Integrated Circuit Cards (ICC or smart cards) compatible with ISO 7816 and/or EMV standards through direct contacts to the ICC.

The MiniSmart^TM Smart Card Reader is a tiny insert-style Reader/Writer that can read and write to Integrated Circuit Cards and has been proven reliable to more than 1,000,000 cycles.