ABOUT HIGH DEFINITION PRINTING TECHNOLOGY
High Definition Printing™ uses dye-sublimation technology to print crisp, 300-dpi images on the underside of HDP® Film developed by Fargo.

By sandwiching images between the HDP Film and the card, High Definition Printing makes cards virtually tamper-proof and highly resistant to wear and abrasion. You’ll benefit from the best card security and durability measures available anywhere.

Designed to encode smart cards and other technology cards
This versatile print technology also performs exceptionally when encoding smart cards and other cards with uneven surfaces and unique card features.

High Definition Printing encoding capabilities support such popular emerging technologies as HID® clamshell proximity cards, MIFARE®, ISO 7816 smart chips and more.

Ideal for any high-security, high-profile application
Fargo HDP printer/encoders are ideal for any organization requiring highly secure authentication and/or card-based access control, time-and-attendance and other applications that depend on technology cards.

High Definition Printing™ sets the standard for secure, high-quality personalization of smart cards and other ID cards that employ the latest e-card and secure image technologies.
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FARGO's HDP800 Series Card Printers, featuring our High Definition Printing™ (HDP®) technology, combined with FARGO's advanced encoding and lamination technology, offers the ultimate solution for high-end and critical card security applications.
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ABOUT DIRECT-TO-CARD PRINTING TECHNOLOGY
Direct-to-Card (DTC®) printing is the most common technology used by desktop card printer/encoders to transfer images directly onto a plastic ID card.

DTC technology prints images by heating a print ribbon beneath a thermal printhead, resulting in the transfer of color from the ribbon to a blank card.

Sharp edges, deep blacks and the full spectrum of colors
DTC technology uses two printing methods to achieve its incredible image quality:

Dye-sublimation prints smooth, continuous-tone images that look truly photographic. A dye-based ribbon is partitioned by multiple color panels, which are grouped in a repeating series of colors along the ribbon’s length.

A printhead containing hundreds of thermal elements heats the dyes, which vaporize and diffuse into the card surface.  By combining colors and varying the heat used to transfer them, dye-sublimation is capable of producing up to 16.7 million colors.

Resin thermal transfer uses a single-color ribbon to print sharp black text and crisp bar codes, which can be read by both infrared and visible-light scanners. 

While this process uses the same thermal printhead as dye-sublimation, solid dots of color are transferred rather than a combination of colors.

The incredibly easy way to produce secure, high-quality plastic ID cards. Just insert an easy-to-load ribbon cartridge with built-in card cleaning roller, load some blank cards, and start printing.
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ABOUT CARDJET PRINTING™ TECHNOLOGY
CardJet Printing Technology is a quiet and highly dependable method of ID card personalization.  Using a specialized HP inkjet-based print engine, Fargo CardJet Printers transfer color and monochrome inks to specially formulated CR-80 CardJet Cards. A thermal inkjet printing process heats the ink, generating vapor bubbles ejected in small drops through nozzles in the CardJet Ink Cartridge.

Drops are precisely placed on specially coated CardJet Cards to form text and images. CardJet Ink bonds and dries instantly, producing full-color, 600 dpi images that run over the edge of cards.

The technology of choice for HID prox cards
CardJet Series printers are the printers of choice for HID proximity cards.  CardJet printers don’t have a print head. Instead, they use an innovative print jet that never touches the card. The result is maximum image quality across the card’s entire uneven surface.

CardJet offers a hassle-free and affordable way to print
professional-looking, full-color ID cards. It is also specially engineered to print on HID proximity cards with embedded electronics.
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Introducing the Persona CardJet C7 inkjet card printer. The CardJet C7 makes it easy to print personalized ID badges and customer loyalty cards for corporate, retail, loyalty, education and membership applications.
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