Precision-engineered DTC ribbons and overlaminates maximize the performance of your HID FARGO DTC printers for secure, durable, and sharp-looking cards and IDs.

• DTC Ribbons: Custom dye-sublimation and resin ribbons work seamlessly with HID FARGO DTC printers to produce secure and durable cards with colorful images, crisp text and precise bar codes.
• Thermal Transfer and PolyGuard™ Overlaminates: Applying an overlaminate to your printed cards not only improves card durability and longevity; with an optional holographic design, overlaminates can also significantly increase card security. Overlaminates with standard or custom holograms create an ID card that is difficult to forge, yet easy to verify.
• PolyGuard LMX Overlaminates: Utilizing HID Global’s new wasteless PolyGuard LMX overlaminates designed exclusively for the DTC5500LMX and the HDP6600, you can lower consumables costs by up to 40% while still getting the highest level of card coverage protection in the industry. From creating photo IDs and government credentials, to gift and loyalty cards, the DTC5500LMX’s patch placement consistency, and rounded laminate corners ensure sharp, professional-looking cards every time.

UltraCard PC is the ideal card for use with reverse transfer, laser engraving printers. Made of a 100% polycarbonate construction, UltraCard PC cards are fully compatible with laser engraving, which can be used to add a secure, counterfeit resistant, and tamper-evident layer of security to your card personalization. UltraCard PC cards are highly durable and offer a longer expected card life than other common card types like PVC or PVC/PET composite.

Key Features

• Clean, glossy surface
• Compatible with fluorescent printing applications
• Compatible with laser engraving
• Durable, delamination resistant card construction

Thermal Inkjet Consumables

Precision-engineered thermal inkjet cartridges maximize the performance of your HID FARGO inkjet printers for durable and sharp looking cards and IDs.

Key features:

• Designed specifically for the HID FARGO INK1000 inkjet printer, a single ink cartridge contains YMC (Yellow, Magenta, Cyan) solvent-based inks for printing full-color card designs and barcode-readable composite black
• The composite black created by the HID FARGO INK1000 can accurately reproduce even complex characters, such as Kanji, Arabic and Cyrillic
• The easy-to-install, snap-in ink cartridge contains specially formulated inks that naturally adhere
  to standard, off-the-shelf PVC and composite cards — and because inks are inherently UV-stable,
  images and text exhibit improved fade resistance
• Depending on your card design, a single ink cartridge may yield significantly more cards at a fraction of the cost of ribbon-based printing (250-1300 cards per cartridge). The HID FARGO INK1000 is equipped with a convenient ink estimator tool that will calculate approximate card yield per cartridge, based on specific card design/image.
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Precision-engineered HDP ribbons, HDP film, and overlaminates maximize the performance of your HID FARGO HDP printers for secure, durable, and sharp-looking cards and IDs.

• HDP Ribbons and HDP Film: High Definition Printing® (HDP) ribbons and HDP Film combine to produce durable and tamper-resistant cards with crisp 600 dpi or 300 dpi images – even on the surface of technology cards. High Durable HDP Film option offers enhanced abrasion resistance for longer life cards.
• Thermal Transfer and PolyGuard™ Overlaminates: Applying an overlaminate to your cards not only improves card durability and longevity; with an optional holographic design, overlaminates can also significantly increase card security. Overlaminates with standard or custom holograms create an ID card that is difficult to forge, yet easy to verify.
• PolyGuard LMX Overlaminates: Utilizing HID Global’s new wasteless PolyGuard LMX overlaminates designed exclusively for the HDP6600 and DTC5500LMX, you can lower consumables costs by up to 40% while still getting the highest level of card coverage protection in the industry. From creating photo IDs and government credentials, to gift and loyalty cards, the HDP6600’s patch placement consistency, and rounded laminate corners ensure sharp, professional-looking cards every time.

UltraCard Premium is the preferred card for High Definition Printing (HDP®) applications. The affordable and extremely durable UltraCard Premium is the non-technology card of choice for the Fargo HDP5000 and other Direct-to-Card (DTC®) applications that require a higher quality card.

Key Features

• Clean, glossy dye receptive surface
• Polyester composite construction
• Ideal with fluorescent printing applications
• Innovative delamination resistant construction

As the threat of fraud, theft and terrorism looms large, today’s counterfeiters are more advanced than ever. The proliferation of digital printing technology has made forging legitimate-looking ID cards all too easy.

That’s why you need HID Global. Visual Security Solutions® are available including:

• Holographic Foil Cards
• Holographic Overlaminates
• Holographic HDP® Film

Each lets you combine a range of standard and custom Visual Security Elements (VSEs) that make cards easy to authenticate, but nearly impossible to forge or alter.