Printrack International Inc, the Anaheim, California-based identification systems house, has won the largest contract in its history from the Argentine government. The contract is worth over $45m, and involves supplying an automated fingerprint identification system as part of Argentina’s national ID system. Along with Siemens Nixdorf GmbH, the prime contractor, Printrack will install workstations that can scan fingerprint cards, perform quality control, and enable ID verification. fingerprint matchers, transaction processors and an image storage subsystem. The contract was won against competition from two other consortiums, Itron/TRW Inc and IVISA/Sagem Morpho. Processing up to 35,000 searches a day, the system will be the largest of its type in the world, the company said, but it expects other countries to consider adding fingerprint biometric data to their national ID programs, in order to prevent voter, immigration and welfare fraud. Those installations will lead to mass market, commercial applications, it believes.
