Graph-Tech USA to Exhibit EMVRunner Card Personalization System
Graph-Tech USA (GTUS) is set to exhibit its EMVRunner card personalization system at TRUSTECH 2025, the world’s leading event dedicated to secure payments, identification, and trust-based technologies. TRUSTECH takes place from December 2–4, 2025, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, where visitors can find GTUS at Booth 5.2 G 055.
As the industry’s first non-contact EMV card system, the EMVRunner offers a fully scalable, high-throughput line for personalizing payment, ID, and gift cards. Designed to simplify EMV and NFC card production, the EMVRunner delivers a fast, affordable, and efficient single-pass solution for magnetic encoding, high-resolution inkjet printing, and RFID encoding.
Graph-Tech USA's EMVRunner
At the heart of EMVRunner is Graph-Tech USA’s eZ-ID patented open contactless EMV/NFC encoding technology, capable of programming 5 to 20 cards in parallel using multiple antennas. Each card is automatically verified, ensuring 100% tested output and unmatched production efficiency.
The EMVRunner will also feature Graph-Tech USA’s latest eZ-Inkjet 66 industrial DOD inkjet printer equipped with a dedicated white print head—a key capability as white is increasingly required on the majority of EMV cards in production today. In addition to white, Graph-Tech offers inkjet systems that can also print black and full-color variable data at 600 dpi, supporting a wide range of design and material requirements. Built for speed, precision, and reliability, the eZ-Inkjet 66 enhances the EMVRunner’s ability to print, encode, and verify cards in a single pass, delivering a compact, fully digital solution for EMV, NFC, and RFID card manufacturing.
The EMVRunner was a finalist in the TRUSTECH Innovation Awards 2024, demonstrating its impact and innovation in the secure card manufacturing industry.
“Traditional EMV systems rely on physical contact and frequent maintenance,” said Markus Portmann, President of Graph-Tech USA. “With EMVRunner, we’ve leveraged contactless technology to make card personalization faster, more reliable, and simpler. Its open architecture integrates easily with partner solutions for central, distributed, or instant issuance—all on one platform.”
The GTUS Super Tracker acts as the “central nervous system” of EMVRunner, executing over one million commands per minute while synchronizing data, card position, and print verification in real time. Together with the next-generation GTUS Controller, it ensures seamless coordination between the NFC/RFID modules, magnetic encoder, inkjet printer, and tracker.
Connecting via 1 GB Ethernet, EMVRunner’s customizable software architecture provides a future-ready solution that easily scales from five to twenty antennas, depending on production requirements.
“The financial card industry is undergoing a major shift toward radio-enabled transactions,” added Portmann. “Our EMVRunner and eZ-ID technologies deliver a future-proof, scalable, and cost-effective solution that empowers manufacturers to meet growing demand for contactless cards without investing in complex or high-maintenance systems.”
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