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To: David who wrote (5803)	12/17/1997 5:59:00 PM
From: jean	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Interesting article on Sandia. The INS must be working overtime...Jean Wednesday December 17, 12:49 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Lasertechnics, Inc. Lasertechnics Unit Receives Acceptance of Third U.S. Immigration Installation for Fraud-Resistant Cards CARROLLTON, Texas, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Lasertechnics, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: LASX - news) Sandia Imaging Systems, Inc., a majority owned subsidiary, said the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) formally accepted the third site for the decentralized issuance of Employment Authorization Documents, Alien Resident Cards (Green Card), and Border Crossing Cards (BCC). Located in St. Albans, VT, the site is the first in the INS to issue Green and Border Crossing cards utilizing optical card technology. The optical cards are printed by Sandia printers that produce multiple security features encoded within each card that make it virtually fraud- resistant. The two previously installed sites, Laguna, Calif. and Lincoln, Neb., will be retrofitted to add the optical Green and Border Crossing card capability in the first quarter of 1998. Sandia was granted the contract in 1995 and over its three year life expects to produce more than 10 million ID cards as additional sites and applications are implemented with the INS. Sandia's high quality printers utilize a dye-sublimation process to imprint both sides of a durable, wallet-sized plastic card with photo-quality, full color, digitized images; photographs; fingerprints; magnetic stripe encoding; holograms; and a variety of other security features to prevent counterfeiting and fraud. Harry Budow, president and chief operating officer of Sandia said, ''We are pleased to be part of the continuing success and performance of the INS project and look forward to additional installations in 1998. We congratulate the prime contractor Information Spectrum Inc. (ISI) and the other sub- contractors on the INS team.'' Sandia Imaging Systems is based in Carrollton, Texas USA and produces fraud-resistant wallet-sized ID cards; assembles and sells dye-sublimation card printers; and designs and markets turnkey corporate security systems. IDCard Services(TM) provides a Turnkey service bureau for the production of high volume, quality, durable, secure and personalized color ID cards with current state-of-the-art technology for visually attractive cards.