IDenticard Systems, Inc. Joins Fargo Technology Alliance

Will Promote Effective, Advanced Smart Card Solutions on a Global Basis

Lancaster, Penna. (May 15, 2001) – To promote effective, advanced smart card solutions on a global basis, IDenticard Systems today announced that it has become a founding member of the Fargo Technology Alliance. IDenticard of Lancaster, Penna., manufactures computer-based digital imaging systems, access control systems, and custom designed photo identification cards. Fargo Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRGO) of Eden Prairie, MN is the world’s leader in innovative technologies for desktop plastic card personalization systems.

IDenticard will become one of the inaugural members of the Fargo Technology Alliance. “We believe that joining this Alliance will allow us to introduce and present our products and services to a vital, important audience: more than 2,100 distribution partners of Fargo Electronics. These systems integrators and resellers, in turn, will gain access to sophisticated smart card application software, hardware and solutions,” said Gary P. Funck, Vice President, Marketing of IDenticard.

“We are pleased that IDenticard is a founding member of the Fargo Technology Alliance,” said Gary R. Holland, president and CEO of Fargo. “By teaming Fargo’s international network of Distribution Partners with the very best smart card application software developers and manufacturers, we can all become more effective smart card solution providers.”

“The use of advanced technology, such as smart cards and proximity cards, is creating new opportunities for distributed card personalization systems,” Holland noted. “In just a few short years, Fargo card personalization technology has expanded from relatively simple systems for providing door access to much more complex personalization systems in the education, loyalty, healthcare, e-commerce and mass transit markets, just to name a few. At the same time, card encoding has increased from relatively simple bar code and magnetic stripe cards to complex schemes with smart cards, proximity cards, and hybrid cards.”

The primary goal of the Fargo Technology Alliance is to increase the sale of smart card products, card personalization systems and services, according to Joseph Schuler, Fargo’s Electronic Card Program Manager. “The program is designed to pull together a wide range of expertise and products, provide information on technology and markets, and create a network of relationships to promote successful business-to-business partnering. Further, we believe this Alliance will quickly become a valuable resource that will help set Alliance member’s solutions apart from the competition.”

The Alliance is open to any smart card software developer or manufacturer whose products or services complement Fargo products. Fargo will facilitate a direct sales relationship between its Distribution Partners and Alliance Members, Schuler said.

Fargo Technology Alliance Members will be listed on www.fargo.com, as well as on a web site accessible only to Fargo’s resellers. In addition, they have agreed to:

1. Utilize their respective skills, abilities, research, products, expertise and marketing in developing leading edge, competitive offerings in the identification card market,

2. Integrate relevant products from Fargo into their offerings,

3. Cooperate in mutually agreed upon joint marketing efforts,

4. Provide Web site links to www.fargo.com, and

5. When appropriate, cooperate in developing new products.

Other founding members of the Alliance include: Bull CP8, CardLogix, CardSmart Technologies, ImageWare Technologies, Intraproc GmbH, NFive Software, Schlumberger, SuperCom Smartcards, Inc., and UbiQ Inc.

About Fargo
Fargo Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRGO) is the world’s leader in innovative technologies for desktop plastic card personalization systems. Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Fargo printing systems create personalized plastic identification cards complete with digital images and text, lamination, and electronically encoded information.

Personalized identification cards provide physical, information and transaction security for a wide variety of applications including retail stores, e-commerce, government installations, schools, sports and recreation facilities, clubs and associations, and correctional facilities. More than 50,000 Fargo systems are currently installed throughout the U.S. and in 76 other countries. For more information, visit Fargo’s website at www.fargo.com.