A job control system for manufacturing laminated printed plastic cards includes a cutting apparatus (40) for cutting job number encoded sheets of plastic card stock (12a). Associated with the cutting apparatus (40) is a scanning device (200) for scanning sheets of the plastic card stock (12a) that have been loaded in the cutting apparatus (40) and for producing a scanner output containing the job number encodation (22). A control system (120) is responsive to the scanner output and to an input job control signal for disabling the cutting apparatus (40) from cutting the sheets of plastic card stock (12a) loaded therein unless the sheets of plastic card stock (12a) conform to a predetermined job specification.
展开▼
