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Appendix C
P420 Plastic Card Printer
General
Color Printing
Bar Codes
Fonts
T
ECHNICAL
SPECIFICATI0NS
• High speed printing, over 102 cards/hour edge to edge in full color (YMCKOK) throughput
• Small footprint
• Windows Drivers for 98 and NT 4.0, Win 2000,XP,ME
• One year printer warranty
• One year print head warranty
• Color dye sublimation or monochrome thermal transfer printing
• 35 seconds per card 2 sides (YMCKOK) throughput
• 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) print resolution
• Edge to edge printing standar
• Code 39
• Code 128 B & C with & without check digit
• 2 of 5 & 2 of 5 industrial
• UPCA
• EAN8 &EAN13
• PDF 417 2D bar code and other symbologies available via WindCard Classic utility tool (option)
• True Type fonts available via Windows Driver
*Use only Zebra-approved card and ribbon media. Using non-approved card or ribbon media can void your warranty.
Refer to the accessories section for more information about Card and Ribbon Media available from Zebra
Technologies corp.
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P420 Plastic Card Printer
CARD DIMENSIONS
ISO STANDARD DIMENSIONS FOR PLAIN CARD
ISO STANDARD DIMENSIONS FOR MAGNETIC STRIPE CARD
CHIP POSITION FOR SMART CARD
0.01 in
(2.54 mm)
Min.gap
0.221 in (5.62mm) max.gap
0.210 in
(3.54mm)
0.631 in
(7.54mm)
0.395 in (8.25mm)
0.790 in 21.87mm
0.782 in (19.87mm) Min.
0.403 in (10.25mm) Max.
0.218 in
(5.54mm) Max.
0.623 in
(15.82mm) Min.
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P420 Plastic Card Printer
Cards*
Ribbons*
Overlay Varnish
Interfaces
Mechanical
Electrical
• Types PVC, Composite
• Card width/length: ISO CR-80 - ISO 7810, 2.125”
(54mm) by 3.375” (86mm)
• Option: Magnetic Stripe - ISO 7811
• Option: Smart Card - ISO 7816-2
• Card thickness: 0.25mm to 1.524m
• Card Feeder capacity: up to 300 cards (10mil), up to
100 cards (30mil)
• Card Output Hopper capacity: 300 cards (10mil), up to
100 cards (30mil)
• Monochrome: 1500 cards/roll
• Monochrome colors: back, red, blue, green, yellow, silver, gold, white.
• K-resin + O: 800 cards/roll
• K-dye + O: 800 cards/roll
• YMCKO: 330 cards/roll
• YMCKOK: 170 cards/roll
• Thermal transfer
• 4 microns thick
• Clear and holographic options:
- Clear
- Genuine/Secure Hologram
- Custom Hologram
• Centronics Parallel Standard
• RS-232C Serial (Optional)
• USB port (Optional)
• Width: 20.9” (523mm
†
)
• Depth: 10.17” (254.3mm
†
)
• Height: 10.76” (269mm
†
)
• Weight: 27.5 Ibs (12.5 kg)
• 110 ~ 230 Volts AC, 60 ~ 50 Hz
• FCC Class A, CE, UL, and CUL approved
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Cleaning
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P420 Plastic Card Printer
Environmental
• Operating Temperature: 60 to 86°F (15 to 30°C)
• Operating Humidity: 20 to 65% non condensing
• Storage Temperature: -23 to 158°F (-5 to 70°C)
• Storage Humidity: 20 to 70% non condensing
• Ventilation: Free air
* Thermal transfer (Resin) ribbons offer more durability than dye sublimation, with greater resistance to scratches and UV-induced fading.
Dye sublimation printing requires dye sublimation ribbons,with either black or cyan, magenta, and yellow (plus black resin) panels.
†
Measured without card output hopper.