subject: New Card Printer Delivers Security - P630i [print this page] The Card Printer P630i is extremely feature-rich, meeting the needs of a wide variety of mission-critical applications in government agencies, corporations and educational institutions. The Card Printer P630i prints sharp full-color or monochrome cards and then applies a 1.0-mil laminate to one side of the card, creating tamper-resistant credentials that can last five years or more. Patented liner-less lamination significantly reduces the cost of laminate material, is waste free and environmentally friendly.
The Card Printer P630i has a unique range of security options, allowing institutions to build the appropriate level of security for their application. These security features include customizable holograms and other covert features within the laminate as well as a variety of encoding options. Magnetic encoding and contact smart card encoding are available as factory-installed options. With these options, users can encode magnetic stripes and encode/read ISO 7816 contact smart chips (the most common contact smart card standard) - Card Tipper .
With the introduction of the Card Printer P630i printer, two new options are being introduced for the Card Printer P630i and the P640i: an integrated linear bar code scanner and a smartcard contact station. The linear bar code scanner can be used to read unique bar codes that are pre-printed on blank card stock, allowing for the closed-loop tracking of individual cards. The contact station offers the flexibility of using proprietary external smartcard contact encoders or readers through a 9-pin connector at the back of the printer. Both of these options allow for higher levels of security features in issued cards - PVC Card Embosser .
In addition to the USB interface included in all configurations of the Card Printer P630i, Zebra also offers built-in Ethernet connectivity as a factory-installed option, allowing remote printing and remote encoding. Based on a 10Base-T/100Base-TX design, the printer can be administered remotely from any location within a network, shared among different users and configured with other Card Printer P630i printers to form pools of printers for high-volume printing.
The new Card Printer P630i printer meets the European Unions Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) standards, which took effect July 1, 2006. RoHS restricts the maximum concentrations of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment.
