Card Readers / Writers

Trident's range of card readers and writers for magnetic cards consists of products in 3 groups:

Motorised card readers are designed for applications where it is necessary for the card to be completely drawn into the system, i.e. when a card may need to be retained due to fraudulent or unauthorised use or where needs to be written to as well as read.

Swipe readers are the most cost effective way to read data from the magnetic strip on a card. Ideal for a variety of applications including card payment systems, access control and OEM POS and EPOS units.

Manual insertion card readers offer certain advantages over the more cost effective swipe readers. They are ideal for any situation where chip card compatibility is required, a higher level of data needs to be read from the card or greater read consistency is required.