Every HID FARGO card printers we sell, with specifications, consumables and the service bench that repairs them. Prices on request — tell us your volume and we will quote the machine that fits it.
FARGO is HID's card printer line, and HID is the company whose proximity and iCLASS credentials are already on the door in a great many Indian offices. That matters practically rather than as a brand story: if your access control is HID, a FARGO printer encodes those credentials natively instead of through a bolted-on module. The DTC range is direct-to-card; the HDP range is retransfer, and prints over a smart card chip without the dimple a direct-to-card machine leaves.
HID FARGO DTC1250e
DTC1250e
The FARGO to buy for a few hundred to a few thousand cards a year. Unusually for an entry machine it will print both sides, and the 100-card input hopper means a batch can be left to run. If your door readers are HID — and in a great many Indian offices they are — this is the printer that encodes those credentials without an adapter.
HID FARGO DTC1250e — sales, installation and in-house service from Mindware, New Delhi.
| Print method | Dye sublimation and resin thermal transfer, direct-to-card |
|---|---|
| Resolution | Up to 300 dpi |
| Sides | Single or dual-sided |
| Colour speed | Up to 225 full-colour cards per hour, single or dual-sided |
| Mono speed | 6 seconds per card monochrome; 24 seconds per card in full colour with two black resin panels |
| Hoppers | 100-card input, 30-card output |
| Card sizes | CR-80 and CR-79 adhesive-back; edge-to-edge printing |
| Connectivity | USB 2.0 |
| Display | SmartScreen graphical display |
HID FARGO DTC4250e
DTC4250e
The volume machine of the DTC range, and modular rather than fixed — smart card encoders, locking card hoppers and other modules are added to the same base printer. The dual-input hopper is the practical difference from the DTC1250e: 200 cards in, and two card types loaded at once so an issuing desk is not swapping stock between jobs.
HID FARGO DTC4250e — sales, installation and in-house service from Mindware, New Delhi.
| Print method | Dye sublimation and resin thermal transfer, direct-to-card |
|---|---|
| Sides | Single or dual-sided |
| Colour speed | More than 200 single-sided or 100 dual-sided full-colour cards per hour |
| Hoppers | Dual-input hopper, 200-card capacity; 100-card output |
| Modules | Optional smart card encoder, locking card hoppers and further add-on modules |
HID FARGO DTC4500e
DTC4500e
The DTC4250e with the two things a continuous issuing desk needs: high-capacity ribbons, so it prints roughly twice as many colour cards between reloads, and optional dual-sided lamination for cards that have to survive years of handling. The 100-card reject hopper is the detail that matters in a controlled process — a spoiled card is separated automatically instead of ending up back in the good stack.
HID FARGO DTC4500e — sales, installation and in-house service from Mindware, New Delhi.
| Print method | Dye sublimation and resin thermal transfer, direct-to-card |
|---|---|
| Sides | Dual-sided |
| Print speed | 16 seconds per card in YMCKO; 6 seconds per card monochrome |
| Hoppers | Dual-input 200-card hopper, 100-card output, 100-card reject hopper |
| Lamination | Optional dual-sided lamination |
| Consumables | High-capacity ribbons — roughly twice the colour cards per reload |
HID FARGO HDP5000e
HDP5000e
Retransfer, which is the technology to specify the moment the card has a contact chip in it. The image is printed onto a film and the film is fused to the card, so it goes over the raised chip and to the true edge — where a direct-to-card printer leaves a visible dimple and a white border. This is the FARGO for an access-control estate printing onto technology cards.
HID FARGO HDP5000e — sales, installation and in-house service from Mindware, New Delhi.
| Print method | HDP retransfer — dye sublimation and resin thermal transfer onto film, then fused to the card |
|---|---|
| Resolution | 300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm) |
| Print speed | Up to 24 seconds per card — up to 150 cards per hour (YMC with transfer) |
| Sides | Single-sided, with an optional dual-sided module |
| Card material | CR-80 PVC, composite PVC, composite, PET, PETG or polycarbonate |
HID FARGO HDP6600
HDP6600
The fastest retransfer printer HID makes, at 600 dpi. The figure worth knowing is not the throughput but the warm-up: iON technology brings it to operating temperature in under a minute, where a retransfer machine has traditionally meant waiting several. For an issuing desk that prints in bursts through the day rather than in one long run, that is the difference between a printer somebody uses and one they leave switched off.
HID FARGO HDP6600 — sales, installation and in-house service from Mindware, New Delhi.
| Print method | HDP retransfer — image printed to film, then fused to the card |
|---|---|
| Resolution | 600 dpi |
| Print speed | Up to 230 cards per hour (YMCK with transfer) |
| Warm-up | iON technology — operating temperature in under 60 seconds |
