Abstract: A card feeder including a frame, a reservoir receiving a stack of cards, a separation system including a separation roll, a ballast movable on the frame between a support position on the top of the stack and a stowed position on one side of the stack, a door movable on the frame between an open position and a closed position, a transmission system for moving the ballast from the support position into the stowed position when the door passes from the closed position into the open position, and a return system arranged so as to return the ballast back to the support position when it is in the stowed position.

Abstract: A lamination module for a plastic card processing machine which includes a heating roll, an anvil roll against the heating roll, a transfer film, and a peeling system downstream of the heating roll and including a peeling roll and a wedge extending along said peeling roll, where the wedge is between the heating roll and the peeling roll, where the peeling roll is movable between a constraint position in which the wedge pinches the transfer film against the plastic card and a release position in which the wedge does not pinch the transfer film against the plastic card.