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Fargo DTC1250e ID Card Printer

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  • Single Sided, Dual Sided Optional message
  • 300 dpi Direct-to-Card Printing message
  • $0.36 per YMCKO card in 16 seconds
  • 100 Card Input Hopper & 30 Card Output message
  • Lamination : Not available message
  • Security features: AES-256 encryption and resin scramble data protection
  • Warranty : 3 years
What's Included
  • Easy Badges Beginner ID Software message
  • Supply packs include everything needed to print cards
  • 30 Day Return Policy
  • Free sample cards prior to purchase
  • Free lifetime phone & email support
  • Free unlimited remote trainings
  • Free, fast shipping
  • Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 20212 R
  • Linux RPM & DEB
  • CR80 sized plastic cards (Driver's License Size) 3.375'' x 2.125''
  • CR79 sized plastic cards (Adhesive-backed cards for clamshell cards) message
  • Free lifetime phone & email support
  • Free unlimited remote trainings
  • Free software demos & training
  • Price match guarantee
  • 30 Day returns on most printers
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Fargo DTC1250e is the ideal printer for compact, fast, high quality printing. This ID badge maker is the perfect solution for small businesses, schools, and local governments making employee badges, access control badges, membership cards, loyalty cards, gift cards, transit passes, school or university cards, and much more. The perfect choice for organizations looking to print quickly without compromising on quality. With Easy Badges easy to use software, clear printing in monochrome or color is at your fingertips.

The fastest in its class, the Fargo DTC1250e printer can print and encode 50% more high quality, visually stunning, full-color ID cards in the same time it would take other printers. Its compact size, single or dual sided printing capabilities, and unparalleled printing speed make it the clear choice for organizations such as schools, small businesses, and more. Upgrade it with an embedded iClass SE® encoder to seamlessly create secure and personalized membership or loyalty cards in one easy step.

Additional Software Capabilities

To help maintain your investment over time the FARGO Workbench™ diagnostic utility and SmartScreen™ user-focuses graphical display, give users easy access to setup, operation, and troubleshooting.

Drivers & Software

Easy Badges ID badge software makes it easy to design ID badges yourself. Without having to learn Photoshop or hire expensive graphic designers, choose a template among the hundreds available and tweak it to include your logo and colors. Our software is as easy to use as it sounds. Work on PC and MAC, no need to worry about your operating system. Easy Badges software allows you to create professional quality, branded identity cards, visitor passes, access control cards, and more.

Fargo DTC1250e comes with the Fargo printer driver for Windows and Mac OS platforms. The driver makes interaction between the printer and the computer more intuitive.

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Easy Badges signature lifetime email and phone support is unique in the industry. While most ID badge printing companies offer some limited ongoing support, Easy Badges goes above and beyond the industry standard. When you buy from us you are a customer for life- we will always be there on the line.

Backed by a global three-year* warranty, each of our seventh generation HID FARGO card printers can be seamlessly integrated to work with other HID products, ensuring that you receive and retain the maximum value from the most trusted name in secure identity solutions.

*Three-year warranty available with completion of online printer registration. (Two-year warranty standard without online printer registration.)

Specifications

Fargo DTC1250e

Print Method Dye-sublimation / resin thermal transfer
Resolution 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) continuous tone
Colors Up to 16.7 million / 256 shades per pixel
Print Ribbon Options Options include easy-to-use ribbon with disposable ribbon cartridge (EZ) and more economical and ecofriendly refill ribbon for cartridge (ECO).
Both EZ and ECO:
  - Full-color with resin black and overlay panel, YMCKO*, 250 prints
  - Resin black (standard), 1000 prints
ECO only:
  - Full-color half-panel with resin black and overlay panel, YMCKO*, 350 prints
EZ only:
  - Full-color with two resin black panels and overlay panel, YMCKOK*, 200 prints
  - Resin black and overlay panel, KO*, 500 prints
  - Resin black (premium), 1000 prints   - Dye-sublimation black and overlay panel, BO*, 500 prints
  - Resin green, blue, red, white, silver, gold, 1000 prints
  - Silver and gold metallic, 500 prints
Rewrite technology - no ribbon is required
Print Speed** 6 seconds per card (K*); 8 seconds per card (KO*); 16 seconds per card (YMCKO*); 24 seconds per card (YMCKOK*)
Print Security Resin Scramble Option: The system can hide any information printed with a resin panel - rendering the panel unreadable.
Accepted Standard Card Sizes CR-80 (3.375˝L x 2.125˝W / 85.6 mm L x 54 mm W); CR-79 adhesive back (3.313˝L x 2.063˝W / 84.1 mm L x 52.4 mm W)
Print Area CR-80 edge-to-edge (3.36˝L x 2.11˝W / 85.3 mm L x 53.7 mm W); CR-79 (3.3˝L x 2.04˝W / 83.8 mm L x 51.8 mm W)
Accepted Card Thickness .009˝ - .040˝ / 9 mil - 40 mil / .229 mm - 1.016 mm
Accepted Card Types PVC or polyester cards with polished PVC finish; monochrome resin required for100% polyester cards; optical memory cards with PVC finish; rewrite
Input Hopper Card Capacity 100 cards (.030˝ / .762 mm)
Output Hopper Card Capacity Single Sided: Up to 30 cards. Dual Sided: Up to 100 cards. (.030" / .762 mm)
Card Cleaning Card cleaning roller integrated into ribbon cartridge; cleaning roller is automatically replaced with each ribbon change
Memory 32 MB RAM
Software Drivers Windows® XP / Vista™ (32 bit & 64 bit) / Server 2003, 2008, 2012 / Windows® 7, 8 & 10 (32 & 64 bit), MAC OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9/10.10 Linux***
Interface USB 2.0, optional Ethernet with internal print server
Operating Temperature 65° to 80° F / 18° to 27° C
Humidity 20–80% non-condensing
Dimensions Single-sided printer: 8.8˝H x 13.7˝W x 7.9˝D / 224 mm H x 348 mm W x 201 mm D
Dual-sided printer: 9.8˝H x 18.7˝W x 9.2˝D / 249 mm H x 475 mm W x 234 mm D
Weight Single-sided: 7.5 lbs / 3.4 Kg; dual-sided: 10 lbs / 4.54 Kg
Agency Listings Safety: UL 60950-2, CSA C22.2 (60950-07), and CE; EMC: FCC Class A, CE (EN 55022 Class A, EN 55024), CCC, BSMI, KC
Enviornmental Features GreenCircle Certified card printer (base models only without encoders) and refillable supply cartridges (ECO)
Supply Voltage 100-240Vac, 50-60Hz, 1.6 Amps max
Supply Frequency 50 Hz / 60 Hz
Warranty Printer – three years; printhead – three years, unlimited pass with UltraCard®
Encoding Options (HID Encoders) Supported smart card and magnetic stripe technologies: 125 kHz (HID Prox) reader; 13.56 MHz (iCLASS® Standard / SE / SR / Seos, MIFARE Classic®, MIFARE Plus®, MIFARE DESFire®, MIFARE DESFire® EV1, ISO 14443 A/B, ISO 15693) read/write encoder; contact smart card encoder reads from and writes to all ISO7816 1/2/3/4 memory and microprocessor smart cards (T=0, T=1) as well as synchronous cards; ISO magnetic stripe encoding, dual high- and low-coercivity, tracks 1, 2 and 3
Supported Access Control Credential Programming iCLASS® Standard/SE/SR/Seos, MIFARE Classic™, MIFARE DESFire® EV1, HID Prox
Options Single wire Ethernet and USB 2.0 interface for inline printing and encoding (note: single wire Ethernet encoding is only available for iCLASS® , MIFARE®, and contact smart card encoding) - Ethernet-enabled printer supports wireless accessory; dual-sided printing module; smart card encoding modules (contact/contactless); magnetic stripe encoding module; printer cleaning kit; ethernet with internal print server; secure proprietary consumables system; Third-party encoder installation kit for FeliCa™, Calypso, LEGIC®
Software Swift ID™ embedded badging application, FARGO Workbench™ diagnostic utility with Color Assist™ spot-color matching
Display Color changing status buttons
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