Optics handling is one of the weakest links not only for Startek but for Taiwan as a whole. Fortunately, just at the right moment the Industrial Technology Research Institute founded its Optics Laboratory. Startek cooperated with ITRI to develop a very high grade optical camera, marking a major breakthrough in terms of fingerprint hardware.
光學處理也是星友及國內較弱的一環，幸而那時工研院成立了光電研究所，星友又和工研院合作，開發出性能相當優異的光學攝影機，在讀取指紋的硬體方面獲得很大的突破。