
- Monochrome Single Sided Card Printer
- A mixture of technology and innovation,
the Tattoo offers a double loading mode.
- card by card manual feeding
- 500 cards/hour
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Hi-Tech design, compactness and ease of use, the Tattoo revolutionizes the world of monochrome printing on plastic cards. In a few seconds, the Tattoo personalizes your pre-printed or blank plastic cards. It prints your high resolution texts, barcodes, graphics and logos. Representing the ideal for visitor badges, loyalty cards, subscription cards, and much more, the Tattoo can be integrated in all types of environments: offices, bank receptions, shop counters. The Tattoo is today the most compact of all plastic card printers. A detachable and completely enclosed feeder makes it possible to prepare several series of cards and to guarantee an optimal printing quality.
Compact
The Tattoo is the most compact card printer on the market. With a footprint of an A4 page, it owes its extreme compactness to the completely new Lift Card System which allows the card to pass on two horizontal levels within the machine.
Ergonomic
Thanks to its novative clamshell opening system, operating a plastic card printer has never been so simple
- Installation of the ribbon in one shot thanks to the exclusive integrated core system
- Quick and easy maintenance of the cleaning rollers
- And if needed, the print head can be replaced in a snap with no tools nor additional adjusments
Powerful Card Loading
- A revolutionary solution analyzes the thickness of the cards present in the feeder: each time you load the card feeder into the Tattoo, the printer immediately adjusts the thickness and memorizes it for the appropriate operation.
- The exclusive weight concept of the card feeder applies permanent pressure on the whole card surface for however many number of cards loaded into the feeder.
- The card feeder is also a detachable feature allowing several series of cards to be prepared at the same time, for example with different designs or different card thicknesses, according to your needs.
- Completely enclosed, the card feeder is dust proof and thus guarantees an optimal card printing quality.
Features
- The Tattoo offers a double operating mode simultaneously: Card by card manual feeding from the front mouth and automatic feeding with the feeder for 100 cards from the back.
- The Tattoo integrates a Ribbon Saver feature: you only use the ribbon length you need for the image to be printed; hence reducing your cost/card!
Economic
Its price positioning and its low cost per card make the Tattoo the most cost effective monochrome card printer on the market.
Print Mode
Monochrome thermal transfer
Line mode for printing texts, barcodes, graphics and logos or diffusion mode for photo printing
Printer Specification
Integrated ribbon saver
Automatic card thickness adjustment
Print Speed
500 cards/hour
Resolution
300 dpi (11.8 dots/mm)
Windows Drivers
For Windows™ 95 / 98 / Me / NT 4.0 / 2000 and Xp
Ribbon Types
Monochrome ribbon: 600 cards/roll
Colors available: black, blue, red, green, gold and silver
Card Loading Modes
Manual and/or automatic feed
Options
USB port (cable supplied)
Serial port (available upon study)
Additional detachable card feeder
Other Models
Tattoo Mag
Printer with HICO / LOCO magnetic stripe encoder
ISO 7811
Tattoo Stand-Alone
Printer connected to a keyboard, available upon study
Card Types
PVC, Composite PVC, ABS and card board
Card Format
ISO CR-80 - ISO 7810 (53.98 mm x 85.60 mm - 3.375" x 2.125")
Maximum print area: 52 mm x 83 mm (2.04" x 3.26")
Card Thickness
0.25 mm (10 mil) to 0.76 mm (30 mil)
Card Feeder Capacity
300 cards (0.25 mm - 10 mil)
100 cards (0.76 mm - 30 mil)
Resident Barcodes
Code 39, Code 2/5 interleaved
Resident Fonts
Arial normal 100, Arial bold 100
Printer size
• Height: 166 mm (6.53")
• Width: 290 mm (11.42")
• Depth: 187 mm (7.36")
Printer Weight
2,5 Kg (5.5 lbs)
Communication Interface
Centronics Parallel (cable supplied)
Electrical
110~230 Volts CA, 60~50 Hertz
Environmental
• Min / Max operating temperatures: 15° / 30° C (59°/86° F)
• Humidity: 20% to 65% non-condensing
• Min / Max storage temperatures: -5° / +70° C (23° / 158° F)
• Storage humidity: 20% to 70% non-condensing
• Operating ventilation: free air
