Thinking back to my school days,
I remember being introduced to an erasable ballpoint pen. It was easier to use, erased better than a pencil, and I loved the look of it versus a pencil. At the time, it was groundbreaking, and it was a must-have among my schoolmates and friends.
Today's rewritable card printer technology is even more exciting and clever, but is actually very simple!
Although we use paper with ballpoint pens and PVC with plastic card printers, the principles are similar.
in that friction with specific temperatures is used to write and erase.
On a plastic card, printing and erasing data or images is possible because of a unique thermally sensitive chromatic layer that is added to the cards during manufacture.
This layer reacts by writing/printing data to the card surface at 170°C and erasing data at 120°C.
Once erased that card can be reprinted and erased up to 500 times.
Two key benefits of thermal rewritable cards are that you will reduce your consumption of plastic cards and the printer does not use ink ribbons.
The best way to use rewritable cards
Rewritable plastic card printers offer a truly unique solution where you can print, erase, and reprint up to 500 times on a single card without using an ink ribbon.
This convenient rewritable technology is best used wherever high-value cards retain a common background which is either printed with the rewritable printer or pre-printed.
The changeable data such as card balance, expiration dates, certifications, or similar would be printed using the rewrite technology.
IDP has manufactured rewritable card printers for years so this is a reliable and proven solution ideal for many customers using high-value plastic cards.
The SMART-31R (rewritable printer) offers many advantages such as high-speed printing (up to 750 cards/hour), automatic card feeding, and printing and erasing up to 500 times on a single card.
Those advantages are being critically acclaimed by many customers.
SMART-31R Benefits ✔ Professional printing, at a lower cost
✔ Eco-friendly, useable up to 500 times
✔ Long-lasting durability
SMART-31R suggested applications ✔ Temporary Parking cards
✔ Visitor & Guest cards
✔ Residency cards
✔ Membership cards
The SMART-31 Rewritable card printer is a perfect solution for customers who wish to reuse high-value cards or frequently update cardholder data.
It’s also very useful for companies that process and accept visitors in high volume and on a regular basis.
Using rewritable technology reduces your budget and encourages efficient performance.
*Stay tuned, we’ll back to you soon with the follow-on topic “SMART-31R User Flow Tutorial”
- #Rewritable
- #Reducebudget
- #SMART-31R
- #IDPGLOBAL
