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Factors to Consider Before Purchasing a Card Printer
Identity cards have become common place in daily life. We use them for gym membership, library cards, driving licences and employee id badges, to name a few. Most have been produced using a card printer. The old labour intensive method of cutting, pasting and laminating an identity card is fast becoming a thing of the past. Using a digital card printer is a one step process. The information including text, graphics and pictures are all stored on a computer, enabling a replacement card to be easily re-printed.
There are several factors to consider before purchasing a card printer, and this article will deals with some of them.
Card printers will generally print a card of the standard and accepted dimensions. The standard is the CR-80 Card, which is 30 microns thick, or .75 millimetres, by 85.5 millimetres long and 54 millimetres wide with rounded corners. We have come to expect a plastic card to be this size, though different sizes can be accommodated for special purposes.
Card printers range from those suitable for high volume needs to the simpler card printers suitable for the occasional use. It is likely, however, that most people will be more interested in the latter. As with paper document printers, card printers are capable of printing at different speeds. It will be especially useful to have fast speed capabilities if you need to print both sides of a card. Printers offering this are likely to be more expensive.
Card printers come in a variety of sizes. If you lack office space, then a printer with a small footprint that takes up minimum space will serve you best. Larger printers may also be noisier, and in a small enclosed office space this will be a factor to consider, especially if you will be doing regular printing.
Not everyone is an instant expert with modern technology. For this reason card printers that have a difficult operating learning curve should be avoided. The best card printers are those that anyone with minimal technical experience can get to grips with, in the minimum amount of time. Remember that while an employee may be comfortable with operating a standard printer used for A4 documents, card printer can prove an unfamiliar challenge. Choose a printer that is simple to set up and is easy to use.
Card printers use a thermal digital printing process. There are two distinct types of thermal printing, depending on what you wish to achieve.
Mass transfer printing is most suitable for printing bar codes and machine-readable text. The print is usually only black and the quality can be somewhat variable. This method works well when precision is not a requirement.
The other thermal printing method is dye sublimation. This method is used in card printers to render photo-realistic images on cards in full colour. It can print very accurately and is increasingly the printing method of choice.
Other considerations when choosing card printers include using good quality stock plastic cards to achieve the best results. A specialist card printer retailer or manufacturer will be to advise you on this and help choose the best type of card printer for your particular requirements.
About the Author
Zebra Card Printers are used every day in over 90 countries to produce more than 1.5 million identification cards. Learn more about Zebra's full range of card printers and accessories at Zebracard.com.
98 windows and finding printer drives.(unusual probem)?
this is a long story but basically i have a floppy disk software i bought in 1995 for my small business and i need to use older computers, like 98 windows, to make it work. (this software runs on dos)
there is a whole issue of dates involve that doesn't allow me to upgrade to newer computors. the software company (jobboss) wants me to upgrade into windows to solve all my problems at a cost of 10 to 15 thousand dollars.
all i need to keep going at this point is to get one of my old ltp type printers to work. (the newer usb type printers don't communicate with this software)
my old printers that i have lying around are hp 812c, 842c and 672c. (but i don't have the drives)
when i go to the hp site, they tell me that for 98 win. those drives are no longer available. and everytime i do a serch and find them elsewhere, they say they will send it to me thru the e-mail. (but it never happens}
help please, thanks.
Try turning off the printer then go to add/remove programs in the control panel. Unistall the software and restart...then shut down and turn on the printer then re-boot. The PC will reconize new hardware and ask if you wish to install it. Go through the process with your disc then re-boot and go to windows update. Select Custom not Express and it will scan your hardware and offer updated drivers for all hardware a newer driver is available for.
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