Basis Of Presentation And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2009	Dec. 31, 2011 years	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2009
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of devices operated by entity		52,900
Number of devices that entity provided managed services to		4,800
Number of devices under contract with financial institutions		15,400
Number of ATMs participating in Allpoint network		43,000
Restricted cash in current assets		$ 4,512,000	$ 4,466,000
Restricted cash in non-current assets		38,000	331,000
Amount of vault cash		2,100,000,000	1,400,000,000
Net recoveries		84,000
Bad debt expense			136,000	140,000
Property and equipment, useful life, minimum (in years)		3
Property and equipment, useful life, maximum (in years)		8
Depreciation expense for property and equipment		45,700,000	40,100,000	37,400,000
Additional amortization expense related to impairments of previously acquired intangible assets		100,000	200,000	1,200,000
Goodwill	165,166,000	271,562,000	164,558,000	165,166,000
Indefinite lived intangible assets		3,300,000
Unrealized loss on interest rate swap agreements	1,400,000
Advertising expense		1,900,000	1,200,000	1,000,000
Working capital payment term		Company typically pays its vendors on 30 day terms and is not required to pay certain of its merchants until 20 days after the end of each calendar month.
U.S. [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of devices operated by entity		46,000
Number of U.S. states devices located		50
Number of multi-function financial services kiosks		2,200
Amount of vault cash		1,700,000,000
Additional amortization expense related to impairments of previously acquired intangible assets		100,000	200,000	1,200,000
Goodwill	150,461,000	255,465,000	150,461,000	150,461,000
U.K. [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of devices operated by entity		3,500
Goodwill	$ 13,991,000	$ 13,361,000	$ 13,390,000	$ 13,991,000
Mexico [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of devices operated by entity		2,800
Majority owned interest percentage		51.00%
Australia [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of ATMs participating in Allpoint network		5,000
Canada [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of devices operated by entity		600
Maximum [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Weighted-average discount rate used to estimate fair value of reporting units		14.40%
Minimum [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Weighted-average discount rate used to estimate fair value of reporting units		11.80%
Bank Of America [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Vault cash agreement expiration date		October 2013
Elan [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Vault cash agreement expiration date		December 2016
Wells Fargo [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Vault cash agreement expiration date		July 2013
Unnamed Vault Cash Provider [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Vault cash agreement expiration date		December 2014
Bansi [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Vault cash agreement expiration date		March 2012
Banorte [Member]
General And Basis Of Presentation [Line Items]
Vault cash agreement expiration date		January 2015
Automatically extended vault cash agreement period (in months)		12