KEY SP75 PLUS PRINTER IMPROVEMENTS
The following are the improvements from the current SP75 card printer to the new SP75 Plus card printer.
Look / Feature / Functionality | SP75 Plus Printer |
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Product name | SP75 Plus Printer |
Product nameplate on printer | New - More polished look and feel |
Printer colors | SP Plus series printers have new darker gray enclosures, |
| unique blue translucent hoppers and cover will remain |
Throughput Speed: |
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Card picking | Improved first card picking by 25% |
Color Simplex Single Lamination | YMCK: |
| o Old: Up to 170 cph |
| o New: Up to 175 cph |
Color Duplex Single Lamination | |
| o Old: Up to 150 cph |
| o New: Up to 165 cph |
Color Duplex Dual Lamination | |
| o Old: Up to 90 cph |
| o New: Up to 105 cph |
Printer Operation Improvements |
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Card scratching | o Input gate improvements |
| o Transport improvements |
| o Duplex improvements |
Improved card picking | New |
Improved high speed precision drive | Higher speed printing and quieter operation |
mechanism |
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Silent cooling system | Virtually silent, long life cooling fan system |
Laminator cartridge | More robust laminator gate allowing for easier supplies loading |
Enhanced color tables | New color tables for more realistic colors |
Thermal compensation | Improved card to card density for longer card programs |
New Supplies |
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New print ribbons | ymcKT short panel 650 yield |
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Improved cleaning system | Larger cleaning sleeve for improved cleaning performance |
New Options |
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Input hopper empty notification option | New option – requires application development |
Ethernet | New 10/100 mbps data transmission |
Printer Driver Improvements / Changes |
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Microsoft® Windows® operating system | Windows XP & 2000 operating systems only – no support for |
support and new Datacard® Open Platform | older operating systems. We are working on Vista™ operating |
printer driver that supports | system – available summer 2007 |
operating systems i.e. Linux |
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Microsoft® Windows operating system | Windows XP & 2000 only – no support for older operating |
Support | systems. We are working on Vista™ – available summer 2007 |
Interface | With 2.0 driver – have moved more functionality to tool box for |
| easier access including card counters |
Supplies reordering message | Added |
| their URL to direct customers to order supplies |
Supply “gas gauge” | New Tool Box page to view how much supplies are still available |
| – both ribbons and laminates |
Monochrome dithering | Enhanced functionality to improve dithered images |
Printer ICON on the desktop | New and improved Icon for better usability and branding |
Datacard Group Confidential | Page 4 of 25 |
| April 2007 |
