TMR - New high-speed laminator increases card output

Posted July 6, 2000

New Products

New high-speed laminator increases card output

A new full-color plastic card printer with built-in laminator, was released this week from Zebra Technologies Corporation (www.zebra.com), the worldwide leader in bar code and plastic card printers.
The Eltron P520 offers many new standard features including a USB interface, 32-bit processor, 4 Mbytes of image memory, and an advanced fourth generation laminating station that is performance-tuned for the P520 print engine. The unit's new all metal enclosure houses a high capacity, auto-synchronizing ribbon and laminate system that is simple to load and use. The printer can also be loaded with multiple options.
"Customers told us that they wanted a card printer that could inexpensively produce long-life cards. Frequent card use, such as swiping through a barcode or magnetic stripe reader, can wear off the printing on a card over time. Extensive testing proved that adding a laminate patch could increase a card's durability by one-to-three years, depending on the application," said Holly Sacks, vice president of marketing for Eltron Card Printer Products.
The housing includes a full-length viewing window and operator control panel with two-line LCD. An easy-access card reject hopper collects improperly encoded cards prior to the printing process, preventing any cards which fail encoding from becoming mixed with the final card output.
Capable of printing dual-sided, high-resolution, full-color cards, the Eltron P520 prints 300-dpi (dots per inch) resolution for sharp ID photos, graphics, text and machine-readable bar codes. The P520 incorporates a transparent card input hopper with a 100-card capacity. The unit can print and laminate cards at the rate of up to 125 cards per hour.

Lionheart Publishing, Inc.
2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA 30339 USA
Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969
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