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Independent Card Test Laboratory,
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Independent Card Test Laboratory
Q-Card Laboratories is a comprehensive independent card test lab, created to help you achieve total card quality. Our expertise includes all forms of smartcard, optical bar coding and magstripe technologies.
Q-Card Laboratories Independent Card Test Lab clients can purchase our line of quality test equipment, send equipment, components and materials to be tested in our Independent Card Test Lab or contract for consulting work. Our experienced Independent Card Test 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.
Magnetic Stripe Testing
- 300, 650 Oersted and high coercivity (hico) stripes
- Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, (ATB) and central track
- Custom track location testing
- Certified testing for ISO/IEC 7811-2, 7811-6, and 10373
- Custom testing to your specifications
- Hico and Loco
- ID1 (CR80)
- TFC
- ATB
- Custom sizes and materials
- PTB reference testing
- AAMVADL / ID2000
- Jitter, start sentinel
SmartCard Contact and Contactless Testing
- Type A, Type B, MIFARE™, FeliCa™ and Vicinity cards
- ISO/IEC 7816-3 compliance
- ISO/IEC 10373-6 compliance
- Programming
- Parametric testing
- Terminal emulation
- Electrical testing
- Timing modifications
- Protocol analysis
- ePassport card validation
- Testing in marginal conditions
- ePassport card simulation
Optical Bar Code Testing
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Standards
- ISO/IEC 15415:2000(E)
- ISO/IEC 15416:2000(E)
- ISO/IEC 15426-1:2000(E)
- ISO/IEC 15426-2:2004(E)
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Typical Applications
- Retail cards (loyalty, etc)
- Secure facility access control cards
- Drivers licenses
- Government and military ID cards
- Law enforcement and correctional facility ID cards
- Transit passes
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Symbologies
- Code 39, Code 93, Code 128
- ITF (I 2 of 5)
- UCC/EAN-128
- Codabar
- UPC-A, UPC-E
- EAN-8 and EAN-13
- GS1 DataBar (all forms)
- PDF 417
- MSI Plessey
- MicroPDF 417
- Laetus Pharmacode
- Composite Code (all forms)
- DataMatrix (ECC-200)
- QR and Micro QR Code







