The Zebra ZXP Series8^TM, a revolutionary retransfer printer that offers a host of options for smart card encoding and networking making it ideal for such applications as high security ID cards, driver’s licenses, gift cards and financial cards.

The Zebra ZXP Series 8 produces photo-quality cards at nearly twice the speed of other retransfer printers currently on the market

Unlike its counterparts, the ZXP Series 8 printer delivers photo quality, over-the-edge, high speed printing on many different types of cards, including those with uneven surfaces such as smart cards, polycarbonate cards for security applications, and biopolymer cards. The printer is available in single- and dual-sided printing configurations with a full portfolio of magnetic encoding, smart card encoding, single- and dual-sided lamination, and connectivity options.

Industry adoption of retransfer printing has been slow, in part, because of slow print speeds and high costs. Zebra has developed the ZXP Series 8 printer to respond to the industry’s need for an on-demand retransfer printer capable of delivering higher print speeds at lower costs without sacrificing the image quality. Zebra also developed the ZMotif^TM software platform, to make application integration easier than ever.

Designed to significantly improve enterprise scalability and reliability, a XML-based software development kit is available to support a broad array of features and technologies, making it easier and faster to integrate the ZXP Series 8 retransfer printer with host of enterprise applications.

Some of the ZXP Series 8 retransfer printer features include:

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  • - Photo print quality
  • - Best in class throughput for printing, encoding, and laminating
  • - True over-the-edge printing
  • - Ability to print on smart cards or cards with uneven card surfaces
  • - Ability to print on non PVC cards such as polycarbonate and biopolymer cards
  • - More durable and abrasion resistant cards
  • - Some fraud protection since the film is inherently tamper evident
  • - XML-based SDK for easier application integration

Standard and optional features of the ZXP Series 8 retransfer printer include: magnetic stripe encoder; combination smart card contact and contactless encoders; contact station; USB or Ethernet connectivity; and security mechanical locks.

Planned future options include support for UHF Gen 2 RFID encoder, single- and dual-sided laminator, and 802.11g wireless connectivity.

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER FROM 17th NOVEMBER 2009 - For more information and samples please contact us on 01298 83131 or email us.

Following a policy of continuous support and improvement NFive has released a new update of it’s flagship product, CardFive Vision.

This update addresses many contactless new aditions; a new Zebra Card printer model suport; adds new Canon camera models on imager; improves many functionalities in speed and reliability.

Worth of a special note, the support for “point-to-image” fields have been greatly improved. The photo acquisition capabilities of CardFive have been extended to manage bitmap linked files on disk with the usual ease of use of embebed database images.

CardFive Vision 8.3 brief Release Summary

New stuff

- Mifare DESFire Cards Support. Ability to read and write DESFire serial number into a database field.
- 125Khz Q5 Cards Support. Ability to read and write Q5 serial number into a database field.
- Implemented Q5 Cards password management.
- New Contactless Encoder Supported: Pro-Active Crazy Write
- Added ability to Omnikey 5121 to encode also on iClass cards.
- Added Chinetek encoder to the lists of encoder that supports now Mifare 4k Cards.
- New printer Model - Zebra P330m.
- Transparency for PNG Images now supported
- Point to image file (even from a text file) is treated as an real image field, allowing photo acquisition to linked files.
- New Canon SDK Implemented; new models supported: PowerShot G9 / G10 / SX100 IS / SX110 IS
- SCOS 5 Added, more reliability on our licensing subsystem

Improvements

- Overall screnn handling speed greatly improved
- Added Color options on HDP 5000 LC Dual sided printer.
- Improved contactless encoding speed
- Force re-fetch data for Contact encoding, allowing full pre-processing operations
- Improved FaceSnap operations flow
- Bar Code (1 and 2D) properties fine tuned; color editable on Text slider