DTC400e Card Printer/Encoders

The DTC400e is designed to give your organization exactly what it needs: a professional, modular card printing system that's versatile and easy to use.

• Dual- or single-sided Direct-to-Card printing of photos, bar codes and digital signatures.
• An all-in-one ribbon cartridge combines the printer ribbon and card cleaning roller into one cartridge, eliminating the hassle of hard-to-load ribbons, separate card cleaning mechanisms and confusing indicator lights.
• Optional DTC400e modules encode data onto contact and contactless smart cards, proximity access control cards and magnetic stripe cards.
• Share your DTC400e in a network setting using the optional Ethernet or internal print server.
• Ideal for small- to mid-sized businesses, K-12 schools, regional and local government agencies, membership and loyalty clubs, events and more.

Purchase Considerations

After you’ve read through all of the features and options, checked the specs, and have seen how the DTC400e fits into a Card Identity System, you ultimately have to ask:

Is this the right card printer/encoder for my ID card applications?

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Asure ID®

Asure ID photo ID software is perfect complement to the DTC400e for creating cards and managing your issuance process. The DTC400e also works with most photo ID software.

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Upgrading for Smart Cards

Optional encoding modules give you the flexibility to work with a variety of card technologies like HID MIFARE® and proximity cards.

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verything about the DTC400e printer/encoder is designed to make ID card issuance simple, secure and virtually maintenance free. The printer ribbon and card cleaning roller load in one easy step. The LCD control panel tells you what’s going on, and what you need to do about it. And a wide range of options let you adapt the DTC400e to your changing security needs.

A. Dual-sided printing lets you make ID cards more informative by printing larger photos on the front and more text on the back.

B. Make your ID cards more versatile by adding smart card and access control capabilities. Optional DTC400e modules encode data on to contact and contactless smart cards (such as HID iCLASS® technology), proximity access control cards and magnetic stripe cards.

C. Simplify operator training and eliminate the expense and downtime of torn ribbons with the SmartLoad ribbon cartridge.

D. Reduce maintenance and maintain print quality with the integrated self-cleaning SmartClean roller.

E. Reduce downtime, operator errors and training costs by constantly knowing printer status through the SmartScreen LCD control panel.

F. The versatile DTC400e prints standard thickness cards plus thin (9 mil) cards for mailing, attaching to a medical chart or slipping into a billfold. It also prints rewritable cards that help reduce the waste of use-then-trash cards such as visitor badges.

Optional dual-sided printing

Dual-sided printing doubles the printable area of your ID cards. That means you can put larger photos on the front, and additional information, bar codes and digitized signatures on the back. Dual-sided printing can also make cards harder to counterfeit.

Optional smart card encoding

Comprehensive security applications frequently combine photo IDs with some type of technology or "smart" cards. With optional modules, Professional Series printer/encoders can encode up to three smart card technologies in one pass: contact and contactless smart card, magnetic stripe, and proximity card

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This is a summary of selected DTC400e specifications.

Printing technology:

• Dye-sublimation / resin thermal transfer

Resolution:

• 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) continuous tone

Colors:

• Up to 16.7 million / 256 shades/pixel

Print speed: