Fargo Persona® C30E+ ISO Dual Magnetic Stripe Encoder

Fargo Persona® C30E, Single Side + ISO Dual Magnetic Stripe Encoder

The simple way to personalize photo ID cards.

The Fargo Persona C30 is designed for simple, reliable and affordable ID card printing. The Persona C30 delivers sharp, colorful, durable plastic ID cards for hundreds of applications, such as company and school IDs, access cards, and membership and customer loyalty cards. The Persona C30 features an easy front-loading, all-in-one ribbon cartridge that saves time and eliminates the mess and expense of torn, wasted ribbons. No feeding is required, plus the integrated card cleaning roller keeps card stock clean and is changed every time you change the ribbon. The Persona C30 features dye-sublimation / resin thermal transfer 300 dpi printing, a 7-second per card speed for basic black text (27 seconds for full YMCKO printing), plus a user-upgradeable magnetic stripe encoder and a convenient USB interface. The Fargo Persona C30 also features both single- and dual-sided printing models - print both front and back in full color.

The Fargo Persona C30 is all about simple, reliable and affordable ID card printing. It's designed for everyone who wants to make great-looking plastic ID cards - even technology cards - on a budget. For hundreds of applications including company and school IDs, access cards, membership and customer loyalty cards, the Persona C30e delivers durable plastic ID cards with printing that's more colorful than ever.

The incredibly easy way to personalize high-quality plastic ID cards.

• Clear, colorful printing of text, graphics, photos, bar codes and digitized signatures on one or both sides of the card.
• Optional modules encode data for contact and contactless smart cards plus proximity and magnetic stripe cards for access control and other applications.
• Eliminates hassles of loading ribbons and cleaning rollers with an easy-to-load integrated ribbon cartridge.
• Print on card as thin as 9 mil and as thick as 40 mil. This includes the new thin plastic cards all the way up to clamshell proximity and smart cards with embedded electronics.
• Ideal for small to mid-sized businesses, K-12 schools, local government, and membership and customer loyalty programs.
• The Persona M30e is designed to personalize plastic cards with monochrome text, photos, bar codes or magnetic stripes, quickly and economically. It's ideal for on-the-spot issuance applications such as membership, library and customer loyalty cards, and visitor badges, where personalized data is added to pre-printed color cards.

This is a summary of selected Persona Single- and Dual-Sided ID Card Printer specifications.

Printing technology:

• Dye-sublimation / resin thermal transfer

Resolution:

• 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) continuous tone

Colors:

• C30e: Up to 16.7 million / 256 shades per pixel
• M30e: Monochrome; seven ribbon colors available

Print speed:

• 7 - 35 seconds per card, depending on ribbon type

Accepted standard card sizes:

• CR-80 (3.375"L x 2.125"W / 85.6mmL x 54mmW)
• CR-79 Adhesive Back (3.313"L x 2.063"W / 84.1mmL x 52.4mmW)

Print area:

• CR-80 edge-to-edge (3.36"L x 2.11"W / 85.3mmL x 53.7mmW)
• CR-79 (3.3"L x 2.04W / 83.8mmL x 51.8mmW)

Input card cartridge capacity:

• 100 cards (.030" / .762mm thick)

Output hopper card capacity:

• Up to 30 cards (.030" / .762mm thick)

Encoding Options:

• ISO Magnetic Stripe Encoding, dual high- and low-coercivity, Tracks 1, 2, and 3
• Raw (user configurable) encoding of ISO magnetic stripe
• JIS II Magnetic Stripe Encoding
• Contact Smart Card Docking Station
• Contactless Smart Card Encoder (HID® iCLASS®, MIFARE® and MIFARE DESFire)
• Contact Smart Card Encoder reads from and writes to all ISO7816-1/2/3/4 memory and microprocessor smart cards (T = 0, T = 1) as well as synchronous cards
• Prox card reader (HID read-only)