We offer the most resilient PVC card printers in the world today: The DATACARD range of instant issuance thermal printers where:

One driver serves all the printers!

SP30 Plus Brochure	SD Series Brochure	SP75 Plus Brochure
SP30	SD260(simplex) & SD360 (duplex)	SP75 PLUS
Entry-level solution	Midrange solution	High security solution
Printing volume: 20,000 Colour prints prints/an and 40,000 Monochrome prints/an	Printing volume: 45,000 Colour prints/an and 120,000 Monochrome prints/an	Printing volume: For high security application. Not rated.
12 month warrantee	30 month warrantee	24 month warrantee
Auto ribbon sensing and management	Auto ribbon sensing and management	Auto ribbon sensing and management
500 colour ribbon yield 1,500 mono ribbon yield (black only)	500 colour ribbon yield 1,500 mono ribbon yield (variety)	500 colour ribbon yield 1,500 mono ribbon yield Special security ribbon and holographic lamination
USB connectivity	USB connectivity and Network connectivity	USB connectivity and optional Network connectivity
n/a	Lockable hopper option	Lockable hoppers and high Printer to PC security options
100 card input hopper, 20 card output hopper	100 card input hopper, 40 or 100 card output hopper	100 or 200 card input hopper, 40 or 200 card output hopper
Simplex only	Simplex or Duplex	Duplex only
Barcode through software	Barcode through software	Barcode through software
Magnetic encoding (mag-stripe) and smart-card options	Magnetic encoding (mag-stripe) and smart-card options	Magnetic encoding (mag-stripe) and smart-card options
Allow printer pooling	Allow printer pooling in development	Allow printer pooling

The table shows some of the features of the DATACARD SP and SD range of printers. Detail specification sheets are available on request in PDF format or visit Datacard. We specialise in the Datacard brand name of printers and are the largest distributor in Southern Africa. These desktop printers, serves the card industry with pride and can accommodate just about every card application. They allow for advanced features like printer pooling and load balancing for additional versatility in your personalisation-printing-bank at close to ZERO downtime. They all do bar-code printing as standard features and by fitting these printers with optional magnetic encoding and/or smart- card functionality you can create powerful applications like payment systems, access control, data storage and retrieval and many more.

• Datacard intelligent ribbon management allows for: 
• Greater ribbon yield 
• Ribbon saving capability - giving you more prints per ribbon 
• Cleaning cards and rollers included in the ribbon kit 
• Larger variety of monochrome coloured ribbons 
• Special scratch-off and even fluorescent ribbon 
• Automatic ribbon detection feature - no more manual settings

The SP range uses AIT (Advanced Imaging Technology) to give you the perfect print every time.

See our Start-Up Kit as the beginning of your successful card program.

A printer that uses heat to transfer an impression onto paper. There are two kinds of thermal printers:

• Thermal wax transfer: a printer that adheres a wax-based ink onto paper. A thermal printhead melts wax-based ink from the transfer ribbon onto the paper. When cool, the wax is permanent. This type of thermal printer uses an equivalent panel of ink for each page to be printed, no matter if a full page or only one line of print is transferred. Monochrome printers have a black page for each page to be printed, while color printers have either three (CMY) or four (CMYK) colored panels for each page. Unlike thermal dye transfer printers , also called dye sublimation printers, these printers print images as dots, which means that images must be dithered first. As a result, images are not quite photo-realistic, although they are very good. The big advantages of these printers over thermal dye transfer printers are that they don't require special paper and they are faster.
• Direct thermal: a printer that prints the image by burning dots onto coated paper when the paper passes over a line of heating elements. Early fax machines used direct thermal printing.