For high volume applications there is no replacement for speed as the #1 factor for helping professionals meet their goals for production. Regardless of whether you are a Fortune 500 corporation, a national membership organization, a regional hospital healthcare center or events management team handling huge sporting events, when everything else in your ID issuance solution has been configured, the output of your ID card printer can be the single factor that ensures your success for full color credentials.
With speed being a top factor in ID badge issuance, each manufacturer has an ID card printer that is designed to deliver fast throughput and rapid warm-up times. Choosing the fastest ID card printer that meets your specific application requirements can be a challenge as your operating system, card technology, and durability requirements will all determine the type of printer suited to your organization.
Here is a summary of the fastest ID card printers from the main manufacturers in the security industry:
Evolis Primacy2 Single Sided Printer
Evolis Primacy 2 is the fastest ID card printer compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems. Primacy’s full-color direct-to-card printer can issue 225 single-sided cards per hour and 140 dual-sided cards per hour. Its compact, modern design makes it a perfect office card printer for print jobs ranging from the simplest to the most secure. Additionally, Primacy’s eco-design reduces energy consumption, making it a more environmentally-friendly option for businesses looking to go green.
HID FARGO HDP6600 Dual Sided Printer
If you are looking for the fastest ID card printer technology without sacrificing superior quality, look no further than FARGO. We voted HID FARGO HDP6600 our favorite printer for its ability to print high-definition, full-color ID cards faster than any other in its class. As a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and reliable solution to retransfer technology, FARGO’s most feature-rich ID credential printer can issue 230 full-color YMCK hi-resolutions cards per hour.
Magicard 300 Dual Sided Card Printer
The Magicard 300 offers a wide colour spectrum and prints at 300 x 300 dpi – great for photographs on ID cards and more accurate depiction of corporate logos and other images. Each full color, single-sided card can be printed in under 23 seconds while a resin-only version takes fewer than 6 seconds. A HoloKote® security watermark can also be printed across the card surface. The Magicard 300 comes with 4 standard designs and allows you to add up to 4 custom designs such as your company logo, or some other unique security design.
Nisca PRC-151 Dual-Sided Printer
The PRC-151 offers a small foot-print, 24-bit color, 256-Grayscale, security lamination, encoding options and prints at the astounding speed of over 144* cards/hour! The PR-C151 has the same NiSCA quality, manufactured in their ISO certified production facility. The printer offers brilliant 24-bit images printed on CR80 cards with thicknesses ranging from 20 mil – 50 mil (.25mm-1.27mm) (10 mil Special Order). The PR-C151 is available with options for smart card encoding and security lamination with the addition of the PR-L151 laminator.
The ZXP Series 7 card printer improves productivity with exceptionally fast print speeds. Thanks to its rapid throughput, up to three jobs can be processed simultaneously: encoding, printing, and laminating. This enables some of the fastest throughputs for direct-to-card printers on the market—up to 300 photo-quality color cards per hour.
Canon CX-G6400 Single Sided Ink Jet Printer
Bigger credentials do not mean slower throughput with Canon’s Digital Inkjet technology. The CX-G6400 Oversized Credential Printer is blazing fast, issuing a 3.5” x 5.5” full-color card in 2 seconds! The single-pass inkjet print-head technology prints in beautiful large-format cards in 1200 dpi. Great for full color badges that are issued to VIP and attendees at sporting games, concerts, corporate events, and more.
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