The window is closing on HSPD-12/FIPS 201 compliant ID cards that federal agencies must begin issuing by October 27. Plenty has been written about the type of card, the biometrics that must be on the card, how big the chip should be … and there is an approved product list from the General Services Administration (GSA) for most aspects of the new federal ID card … but what's not on the list yet is a printer to produce the cards. What about actual card production?