One year on...

The Fargo DTC1000, 4000 and 4500 have been in the field now for over a year and have proven themselves to be class leaders in desktop card printing. This range will cover everything from basic single-side card printing through to dual-side printing and overlaminating on to smartchip cards.


The entry-level DTC1000 is ideal for low volume basic card printing with optional magnetic stripe encoding and produces a full colour ID card in under 30 seconds.

The DTC4000 is the mid-range card printer, and can be initially ordered as a single-side printer then field upgraded to dual side as your needs change, making it very versatile.  A very useful feature is the option to have 'same-side' card input and output, for use when desk space is very limited and you need to squeeze your card printer in to your precious work area!  With other features such as mag encoding, contact/contactless chip encoding, HID iClass encoding and HID proximity card reading, the Fargo DTC4000 is the all round card printing tool.

The DTC4500 is the professional level ID card printer from Fargo and will do nearly everything that you can think of when it comes to card printing. It will print single and dual-side cards, encode contact and contactless chip cards, magnetic stripe cards, HID iClass cards and proximity cards.  On top of this, there is an optional laminator to allow you to put an overlaminate the card. The overlaminate can be either  clear Polyguard or with a Fargo designed hologram for card security.  For extra security that eliminates card copying, you can use your own custom designed hologram overlaminate with the DTC4500.  It also has a 200 card input hopper, meaning you can carry two types of card stock or simply load up 200 cards of your regular card stock.

Both the Fargo DTC4000 and DTC4500 have dual USB and Ethernet ports as standard, perfect for networking, and to make life even easier when networking, the printers have DHCP for quick network set up.

The Fargo printer ribbons are now on a simple to load cartridge that includes a built-in cleaning roller.

The Fargo Neo range seems to have proven that with HID Global, Fargo printers are better than ever.