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Reviewing the Overlaminates

Important! Fargo Card Printers require highly specialized overlaminates to function properly. To maximize Printer life, reliability, printed card quality and durability, you must use only Fargo Certified Supplies. For this reason, the Fargo warranty is void, where not prohibited by law, if you use non-Fargo Certified Supplies. To order additional materials, please contact the authorized reseller.

Reviewing the Thermal Transfer Film and PolyGuard Overlaminates

Term

Description

Cross Reference

 

 

 

Thermal

The Card Lamination Module will accept

See the Loading the

Transfer Film

either a Thermal Transfer Film overlaminate

Overlaminate.

and

or a Polyester Patch Overlaminate called

 

PolyGuard

PolyGuard™.

 

Overlaminates

Thermal Transfer Film: The Thermal

 

 

 

Transfer Film overlaminate is a relatively

 

 

 

thin material which Covers a card Edge-

 

 

 

to-Edge and provides a medium level of

 

 

 

card durability and security.)

 

 

PolyGuard Overlaminate: PolyGuard

 

 

 

is a much thicker material which does

 

 

 

not Cover Edge-to-Edge, but provides

 

 

 

an extremely high level of card durability

 

 

 

and security. (Note: PolyGuard is

 

 

 

available in either a 1.0 or .6 mil

 

 

 

thickness and should always be used for

 

 

 

those applications requiring the highest

 

 

 

degree of card durability and security.)

 

 

 

 

 

HDP5000 High Definition Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 1.2)

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FARGO electronic HDP5000 Reviewing the Overlaminates, Term Description Cross Reference, Thermal Transfer Film The Thermal