A professional, modular card printer and encoder that's also versatile and easy to use.

* Dual- or single-sided Direct-to-Card printing of photos, bar codes and digitized signatures.
* Simple to operate, virtually maintenance free, and field-upgradeable with smart card, proximity and magnetic stripe encoding options.
* Eliminates hassles of loading ribbons and cleaning rollers with exclusive SmartLoad™ ribbon cartridge.
* Ideal for small to mid-sized businesses, K–12 schools, public safety departments, and local and state government facilities.

Holographic Foil Cards

These cards feature a tamper-resistant, instantly verifiable foil that’s permanently embedded into the card surface. The foil alone helps make non-laminated ID cards more secure, or it can add another security layer to laminated cards.

Fargo Asure ID®

Fargo Asure ID photo ID software is perfect complement to the DTC400 for creating cards and managing your issuance process. The DTC400 also works with most photo ID software.

Upgrading for smart cards

Optional encoding modules give you the flexibility to work with a variety of card technologies like HID MIFARE® and proximity cards.

Fargo DTC400 Print Method

Dye sublimation / resin thermal transfer

Resolution

300dpi (11.8 dots/mm)

Colors

Up to 16.7 million / 256 shades/pixel

Print Speed

7 - 35 seconds per card, depending on ribbon type

Accepted Standard Card Sizes

CR-80, CR-79 adhesive back

Print Area

Edge-to-edge on CR-80 cards

Input Hopper Card 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
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)

Options

Dual-sided printing module: field-upgradable
Smart card encoding modules; field-upgradeable
Mag stripe encoding module; field-upgradeable
Ethernet networking with internal print server (replaces USB connection)
100-card output hopper with or without reject tray
Printer cleaning kit