HID FARGO® DTCii Plus Financial Card Printer/Encoder
Integrated Financial Instant Issuance (Fii) Solutions
Product Overview
The HID FARGO® DTCii Plus Financial Card Printer/Encoder is designed for integrated financial instant issuance (Fii) solutions, enabling financial institutions to produce high-quality, secure cards on demand.
[Image Description: A HID FARGO DTCii Plus financial card printer/encoder is shown. It is a desktop unit with a dark grey and silver finish, featuring a card output slot and a SmartScreen™ display. The unit is positioned at an angle, showcasing its modern design.]
[Image Description: A close-up image displays several financial cards, some with visible chip contacts, suggesting their use with the printer/encoder. The cards appear to be high-quality and ready for issuance.]
Key Features & Security
Security Features:
- Hardware locks for input hoppers, card reject bin, and consumable doors.
- Kensington® Combination Lock and Security Cable slot for physically securing the printer to a countertop.
- TLS 1.2 encryption.
- Output hopper card concealment.
Key Features:
- Driverless printer for increased security.
- SmartScreen™ graphical status display with easy-to-follow prompts.
- Convenient exception feed for manual introduction of a single card for unique print jobs.
Direct-to-Card Financial Printer/Encoder Benefits
- Instantly issue cards and boost activation and customer loyalty, shifting first transactions to mere days after issuance.
- Safeguard from cyber attacks: No dedicated PC required, enhancing security against common networked PC vulnerabilities.
- Enhance productivity with multiple input hoppers and built-in exception feed for streamlined production and manual card introduction.
- Enjoy ease of use with all-in-one, pre-loaded print ribbon and card cleaning cartridges, and a SmartScreen™ graphical display.
The HID® FARGO® DTCii Plus Financial Card Printer/Encoder makes instant issuance practical and affordable for a wide range of financial cards, delivering an outstanding customer experience with speed, convenience, and security.
Branch personnel can hand a new financial card to a customer in minutes, eliminating concerns about cards lost or stolen in the mail. Instant issuance means customers can start using their cards immediately.
Creating high-quality, visually rich, and durable financial cards on demand is easier and more affordable. The DTCii Plus prints on both sides and writes card data with standard magnetic, contact, and contactless smart card encoders, producing next-generation financial cards with optional smart chip integration.
As a driverless printer, the DTCii Plus does not require a dedicated PC, making it highly secure against PC-based hacker attacks and security breaches. It supports the secure global Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) standard, ensuring interoperability and greater protection from fraud.
Financial institutions embrace the DTCii Plus for cost-effectively producing secure and durable cards. It places financial card issuance where the customer is, instantly, raising customer service and loyalty. HID Global continues to make instant financial card issuance practical, affordable, and profitable.
Encoding Options
(Supported smart card and magnetic stripe technologies):
- Contactless 13.56 MHz 14443 A/B, ISO 15693 read/write encoder.
- 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.
- ISO format magnetic stripe encoding, dual high- and low-coercivity, tracks 1, 2, and 3.
- Supported magnetic encoding modes: ISO format mag encoding, custom encoding, raw binary encoding.
Specifications
| Print Method | Dye Sublimation / Resin thermal transfer |
| Resolution | 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) continuous tone |
| Colors | Up to 16.7 million / 256 shades per pixel |
| Print Ribbon Options | Easy-to-use pre-loaded ribbons within disposable ribbon cartridges: EZ YMCKOK* (200 images), EZ KO* (500 images), EZ SOK* (250 images) |
| Print Speed** | 8 seconds per card (KO*); 24 seconds per card (YMCKOK*) |
| Accepted Standard Card Sizes | CR-80 (3.375" L x 2.125" W / 85.6 mm L x 54 mm W) |
| Print Area | CR-80 edge-to-edge (3.36" L x 2.11" W / 85.3 mm L x 53.7 mm W) |
| Accepted Card Thickness | .027" (30 mil) - .043" (40 mil) |
| Accepted Card Types | Press polished PVC, Composite (PET/PVC with PVC as an outer layer), Laminated PVC (credit card construction) |
| Input Hopper Card Capacity | Dual-input card hopper (200 cards total, 100/ea) |
| Output Hopper Card Capacity | Up to 20 cards (.030" / .762 mm) |
| Reject Hopper Card Capacity | Up to 100 cards (.030" / .762mm) |
| Card Cleaning | Card cleaning roller integrated into ribbon cartridge; automatically replaced with each ribbon change. |
| Memory | 32 MB RAM |
| Software Drivers | Driverless printer, SDK development required |
| Interface | Ethernet with internal print server |
| Operating Temperature | 65° to 80°F / 18° to 27° C |
| Humidity | 20% to 80% non-condensing |
| Dimensions | 10.05" H x 22.94" W x 10.27" D / 255.3 mm H x 582.7 mm W x 260.9 mm D |
| Weight | 11 lbs / 5 Kg |
| Agency Listings | Safety: UL 60950-2, CSA C22.2 (60950-07), and CE; EMC: FCC Class A, CE (EN 55022 Class A, EN 55024) |
| Supply Voltage | 120-240Vac, 50-60Hz, 1.6 Amps max. |
| Supply Frequency | 50 Hz / 60 Hz |
| Warranty | Printer: three years; Printhead: three years |
| Connectivity and Encoding | Single wire Ethernet for inline printing and encoding. Supported smart card and magnetic stripe technologies: Contact smart card encoding ISO7816 1/2/3/4 memory and microprocessor smart cards (T=0, T=1) as well as synchronous cards, Contactless 13.56 MHz ISO 14443 A/B, ISO 15693 read/write encoder, ISO format magnetic stripe encoding, dual high- and low-coercivity, tracks 1, 2, and 3. Supported magnetic encoding modes: ISO format mag encoding, custom encoding, raw binary encoding. |
| Display | User friendly, SmartScreen™ graphical display |
| Printer Security | Hardware locks for input hoppers, card reject bin and consumable doors, Kensington® Combination Lock and Security Cable slot, TLS 1.2 encryption, Concealed output hopper. |
* Indicates the ribbon type and the number of ribbon panels printed where Y=yellow, M=magenta, C=cyan, K= resin black, O=overlay, S= resin silver.
** Print speed indicates an approximate print speed and is measured from the time a card drops into the output hopper to the time the next card drops into the output hopper. Print speeds do not include encoding time.
