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Pronto 100 ID Card Printer – User Guide
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Self Adhesive Cards
Rewriteable Cards
There are many types of self-adhesive cards. Thorough investigation and testing has shown that poor quality or
incorrect card types will cause:
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Poor image quality.
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Card feed failures.
• Dye film cutting or snapping.
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Cards jamming during printing.
Rewriteable cards are plastic cards that are reusable or erasable. In some cases, the cards can be reused up to
500 times (the actual number of times can vary between card type and manufacturer).
Rewriteable cards are identical to standard PVC cards in terms of physical size and thickness but differ in that
one side of the card will have a matt finish rather than the usual glossy finish.
The glossy side of the card can be printed on in the same way as a standard card using standard dye film. The
matt side has a special dye coating which is sensitive to temperature variations (generally, the hotter the
temperature applied to the matt surface, the darker the dye colour at that point). Standard dye film is not used
with rewriteable cards.
Using the heat from the printhead, it is possible to produce an image as with standard cards but these images
will usually be monochrome (the colour being determined by the actual heat-sensitive dye used in the
manufacture of the cards) and usually slightly lower resolution to a similar image printed using standard dye
film.
Rewriteable cards offer an economical alternative to printing standard colour images using colour dye film.