METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERSONALIZING A MULTIPLICITY OF SECURITY DOCUMENTS

摘要

The invention relates to a method for personalizing a multiplicity of security documents (7), valuable documents or smart cards within a personalizing system (1) comprising a plurality of processing stations (3, 10, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 33) arranged one behind another along a longitudinal axis (2) of the personalizing system (1) and serving for carrying out individual personalizing steps, wherein the documents (7) or smart cards, for carrying out the personalizing steps, pass through one processing station (10, 18, 22, 26) in a first direction (6, 11; 17c, 19a; 21c, 23a; 25c, 27a; 30; 31b) running transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis (2) and pass to the further processing station (16, 20, 24, 28) in a second direction (4; 13, 17a; 19c, 21a; 23c, 25a; 27c, 29a), which is opposite to the first direction and likewise runs transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis (2), wherein all the processing stations (3, 10, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 33) are oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis (2) with regard to their transit directions (4; 6, 11; 13, 17a; 17c; 19a; 19c, 21a; 21c, 23a; 23c, 25a; 25c, 27a; 27c, 29a; 30; 20 31b).