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Printer Components: Ribbons and Cards (continued)
Term | Description |
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Clear Overlay | The Ribbons which have a clear overlay panel will print an ID card and |
Panel | place a clear, protective overlay over the card’s printable area. All color or |
| monochrome |
| them. |
| If it is not applied, the card’s |
| wear or fade. |
| Be sure the Overlay option within the Printer Driver setup window is |
| selected when printing with Ribbons which have a clear overlay panel. |
| Note: The only time you should not utilize a Ribbon’s clear overlay panel |
| is if you intend to apply a separate, custom overlaminate to a card |
| immediately after printing. |
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Resin Black | The Ribbons which utilize a resin black, are intended for printing bar codes |
| onto cards which can be read by both |
| scanners. |
| • Bar codes printed with a |
| visible light bar code scanner. Cards printed solely with monochrome |
| resin text, bar codes or images do not require any type of protective |
| overlay. |
| • The black monochrome resin Ribbons are available in both a premium |
| and standard quality. The premium resin black Ribbon provides |
| maximum durability and is ideal for applications (e.g., access control |
| where cards are repeatedly swiped through a magnetic stripe reader). |
| • The standard resin black Ribbon provides high durability ideal for most |
| general purpose ID card applications. In addition to a standard black |
| resin Ribbon, several other standard resin Ribbons are available in a |
| variety of spot colors including blue, green, red and metallic gold. |
| • All monochrome resin Ribbons provide 1,000 prints. The blue, green |
| and metallic Ribbons are capable of printing bar codes which can be |
| read by visible light bar code scanners only. Bar codes printed with the |
| red and |
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