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Fargo 1250e ID card printers provide a fast, reliable, and user-friendly direct-to-card printing solution, making them ideal for businesses and organizations of all sizes. These printers offer optional Ethernet connectivity and wireless printing capabilities, allowing for seamless and flexible printing from any location. The DTC1250e printers also come with magnetic stripe and smart card encoding options, enabling the creation of both contact and contactless credentials effortlessly.

One of the standout features of Fargo 1250e printers is their eco-friendly design. You can choose to go green with refillable EZ ribbons, reducing waste and promoting sustainability. Alternatively, for those who prioritize convenience, Fargo offers all-in-one, disposable ribbons. With these versatile printing options, Fargo 1250e ID card printers cater to a variety of needs while ensuring top-notch performance and ease of use.

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Have Questions about Fargo DTC1250e Printers? We Have Answers!

What are the Main Features and Benefits of the Fargo DTC1250e?

HID Fargo 1250e direct-to-card printers are compactly designed to fit to any desktop and are highly intuitive, making it easy for anyone, even beginners, to produce professional-quality credentials. Optimal for small-to-medium size businesses and low-volume card printing applications, DTC1250e printers are ideal for printing employee badges, membership cards, loyalty cards, student ID cards, and more. The series is backed by a three-year manufacturer warranty, and all Fargo DTC1250 printers come with one no-questions-asked printhead replacement plus 365 days of printer loaner coverage.

DTC1250e ID card printers offer a number of user-friendly features, including:

  • Choice of single-sided or dual-sided printing capabilities
  • Choice of economical, all-in-one EZ print ribbons with disposable cleaning cartridges or earth-friendly, ECO print ribbons with reusable ribbon cartridges
  • Color-changing status buttons for visually tracking printer status in real-time
  • Dye-sublimation printing for vivid imagery and thermal resin printing for sharp barcodes and text
  • Eco-friendly erase and rewrite capabilities for reusing temporary ID cards and visitor badges
  • Standard USB connection and an Ethernet option for printing across a network
  • Encoding options (which can be added at any time) for writing electronic data to your cards
Should I Choose the Single-Sided DTC1250e or the Dual-Sided DTC1250e?

Single-Sided DTC1250e vs Dual-Sided DTC1250e

Consider the type and quantity of information that you will be printing on your cards. If you will be printing minimal information such as a company name, cardholder name and a photo on your cards, a single-sided DTC1250e should suffice. If you will be printing more robust information to your cards, especially if you’ll be encoding them with magnetic stripes or barcodes, you’ll be more satisfied with a dual-sided DTC1250e. Dual-sided printers allow you to print to both sides of the card in a single pass and keep your cards legible and uncluttered by printing essential information that needs to be seen to the card front, with secondary or additional information printed to the back.

Customers often ask whether they can use their single-sided DTC1250e printer to print dual-sided cards with the assumption that this will reduce overall cost. Technically, it’s possible to use a single-sided printer for dual-sided printing by manually re-loading printed cards for a second pass, however, this is not recommended for several, very important reasons. Not only is this method time-consuming and inefficient, taking three to four times as long as a dual-sided printer, it also exposes your printer's printhead to oil from your fingertips, dust and other debris that can cause printhead damage. Printhead damage to single-sided printers caused by attempted dual-side printing usually voids your printer warranty, leaving you to absorb the cost of expensive printer part replacement.

I Need to be Able to Store and/or Access Data on my Cards. What are my Encoding Options with the DTC1250e?

Encoding Options with the DTC1250e

With barcodes, the cardholder data is not stored within the physical barcode, but rather electronically in a computer. To print barcodes to your cards, you do not need an encoding Fargo DTC1250e printer or special software with encoding capabilities. Simply make sure that your printer ribbon has a black resin panel to create crisp, easy-to-scan barcodes.

Requirements: All Fargo DTC1250e printers are capable of adding a 1-D or 2-D barcode to a plastic card. However, reading the barcode requires a barcode scanner connected to the computer that contains the barcode's data.

Magnetic Stripe Encoding

While barcode information is stored to a computer, magnetic stripe information is stored within the magnetic stripe of the physical card. When used for access control, for example, each individual card contains the data required to unlock preprogrammed doors. Simply swiping the encoded card will activate the door to give validated users access.

There are two types of magnetic stripe cards:

High Coercivity (HiCo) magnetic stripe cards are resistant to damage from magnets and magnetic fields, are harder to erase, and are therefore recommended for frequent use and extended duration applications. HiCo stripes are most often used for access control, time and attendance, and gift cards.

Low Coercivity (LoCo) magnetic stripe cards require a lower amount of energy to record than HiCo stripe cards, making them easier to erase. LoCo stripes can be damaged by brief contact with a magnetic field, and so LoCo stripe cards are typically reserved for limited use and temporary card applications, such as hotel room keys.

Requirements: In order to use magnetic stripe cards, you will need a magnetic stripe encoding Fargo DTC1250e printer and mid-level or fully-featured ID software.

Smart Card and Proximity Card Encoding

Like magnetic stripe cards, smart card data is stored within the physical smart card components. Unlike magnetic stripe cards, however, smart cards can be reconfigured to add, erase, or edit hosted data. They are also capable of holding up to 100 times more data than a magnetic stripe. There are two kinds of smart card: contact and contactless.

Contact smart cards have integrated chips and must come into direct contact with the card reader in order to be read.

Contactless smart cards have chips and antennae that allow them to be read as soon as they are within a specified distance to the card reader, eliminating the need for direct card-to-reader contact.

Note: Proximity cards are similar to contactless smart cards, but there are important differences. Proximity cards come pre-programmed and do not need to be encoded. While some printers can read/verify proximity card data, data on most* proximity cards cannot be added, altered, or erased.

Requirements: In order to use a contact or contactless smart card, you'll need a smart card encoding Fargo DTC1250e printer and fully-featured ID software. When ordering your printer, be prepared to specify whether you require contact or contactless encoding.

*Some cards, such as iClass cards, include non-editable, pre-programmed proximity data and a smart chip for encoding your own data.

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