Plastic cards have become a part of everyone's life, from credit cards
to driver's licenses, membership cards to employee identification
badges. Their convenient size, portability and durability have made them
the vehicle of choice for many applications. Plastic card printers print
any image, text or barcode to a blank plastic card. Options on printers
include magnetic stripe and chip encoders.
Some of the important features of a Plastic card printing machine
are:
- Robust and durable
- Ensure high quality output of rich text, dense colors and pin
sharp resolution
- Print Heads guaranteed for a fixed number of plastic cards
- Dye ribbons with technology, which cleans the Print Head as it
prints, thus maximizing the life of the unit
- Closely integrated with image capture systems (digital cameras,
etc.) and computer database systems
- Ability to create custom cards ideally tailored to the
application or to customize and personalize cards on demand, right
at the point of issuance
- The printing process must be fast (just a few seconds per
card)and cards generated should be duly personalized
Digitally printed plastic cards provide numerous technological
features. Starting with a blank plastic card that can be printed with
any combination of artwork, graphics, text, digital photograph, bar
codes, logos, etc., the range is limited only by the issuers imagination.
There are numerous card printing machines or “card printers”
as popularly called, available in the market, depending on the degree of
customization required, the quality of printing, speed of printing,
colors etc. A few of them are:
- Monochrome card printers
- Dual Sided card printers
- Stand alone printer units
- Digital printers
Plastic Card Printing Machine
