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Printer comparison table
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Printing Technology |
Dye sub. / thermal transfer |
Direct Thermal Rewritable / Erasable |
Dye sub. / thermal transfer | Dye sub. / thermal transfer | Dye sub. / thermal transfer | Dye sub. / thermal transfer |
| Color capability | Monochrome and Color | Monochrome | Monochrome and Color | Monochrome and Color | Monochrome and Color | Monochrome and Color |
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Single/Dual side printing |
Single-sided | Single-sided | Single-sided | Single-and dual-sided | Single-and dual-sided | Single-and dual-sided |
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Edge-to-edge printing |
No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Single-sided color printing speed |
40 s / card | 8 s / card | 24 / card | 24 s / card | 26 s / card | 30 to 38 s / card** |
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Dual-sided color printing speed |
- | - | - | 29 s / card | 33 s. / card | 34 to 43 s. / card** |
| Lamination | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
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Magnetic encoding |
Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* |
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Smart Contact encoding |
No | No | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* |
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Smart Contactless encoding |
No | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* |
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Card feeder capacity |
100 cards | 100 cards | 100 cards | 100 cards | 2x500 cards | 100 cards |
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Output hopper capacity |
15 cards | - | 50 cards | 100 cards | 2x500 cards | 100 cards |
| Connectivity |
USB & Ethernet* |
USB | USB & Ethernet* | USB & Ethernet* | USB | USB & Ethernet |
* optional
** Printing and Laminating speed
