ExpressCard 500
Card Personalization Device for Instant Card Issuance
The ExpressCard 500 delivers dual-sided, wear-resistant color printing, magstripe
encoding, and contact and contactless smart card personalization all in one device. The
ExpressCard 500 personalizes cards individually for sophisticated, premium-quality,
edge-to-edge production for a variety of card applications. The printers’ exibility, print
quality and ease-of-use coupled with the high-quality, affordable consumables for
producing all kinds of payment cards including nancial, loyalty and ID cards make the
ExpressCard 500 an excellent choice.
The ExpressCard 500 offers world-class technology that supports the most stringent
standards for printing and encoding of magnetic stripes. With full graphic and image
support, users can cost-effectively offer custom pictures and graphics.
• LASTING LOYALTY CARDS
Increase revenues and prevent fraud
• KEY CARDS THAT OPEN MORE THAN A ROOM
Maintain a personalized experience
• GIFT CARDS
Place personalized gift cards instantly in your customers hands
• CO-BRANDED BANKCARDS
Attract customers and increase loyalty
• CAMPUS IDENTIFICATION/DEBIT CARDS
Secure the identities of those on your campus
ExpressCard 500
Card Personalization Device with encoding and
at card printing
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STABILITY AND RELIABILITY
The ExpressCard 500 is rugged and built following strict engineering and quality
assurance guidelines. ExpressCard 500 is one of the fastest printers on the market
with premier performance and high image resolution.
ENHANCED USER EXPERIENCE
MagTek’s hardware and software is built for ease-of-use, limiting training time and
delivering an enhanced user experience. The ExpressCard 500 provides a modular
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Specications
and scalable solution to t users’ specic needs in a plug-n-play printing environment.
Customers and guests will appreciate receiving personalized cards that are high quality,
reliable, and are created quickly and simply.
SERVICE YOU CAN COUNT ON
Limit downtime using MagTek’s premier nationwide installation, training and service
coverage. Our technicians receive continuous training and certication of competencies.
STUNNING GRAPHICS AND PERFORMANCE
The stunning throughput delivers a smooth process with minimal user intervention.
The ExpressCard 500 reproduces vivid images and print results with state-of-the-art
encoding and advanced card personalization features. With dual-sided printing the
ExpressCard 500 produces cards that are attractive and durable. The automatic feeder
and output hopper both have a 100 card capacity making the printer ideal for small to
medium runs, while the manual feeder makes is easy to create card-by-card printing.
SECURITY
The ExpressCard 500 features a locking card hopper designed
to secure the card stock and meet Visa and MasterCard’s
compliance requirements for instantly issuing branded cards.
The Kensington Lock physically secures the device and keeps the
ExpressCard 500 locked down where you want it and meets VISA’s
Hardware Standards on securing the device (Section 3 of VISA’s
Global Instant Card Personalization Issuance Security Standards)
so the card issuer can condently focus on their business.
EASY INTEGRATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
The internal USB hub provides easy connection and makes linking to Windows-based
systems a breeze. With the feature-rich solution offered by the ExpressCard 500, users
will be able to meet current market needs and also support new card issuing trends,
including smart cards, contactless cards, at cards and photo cards.
CENTRALIZE CONTROL OF CARD ISSUANCE
Couple the ExpressCard 500 with MagTek’s QwickCards.com, a cloud-based solution
for faster deployment and scalability of services and resources. QwickCards.com is PCI
compliant so customers can be assured that sensitive card data is protected.
ExpressCard 500
CARDS.com
ISSUE CARDS IN A FLASH
LOCKED CARD HOPPERS:
1 output, 1 input hopper
CAPABILITIES
ENCODE:
MAGSTRIPE: ISO 7811 HiCo/LoCo or JIS2 magnetic strip
encoder tracks 1, 2, and 3
EMV SMARTCARD (EMV MODEL): Smartcard contact
station: ISO 7816-2; PC/SC, EMV 2000-1; Contactless:
ISO 14443A, B, ISO 15693, Mifare, DesFire, HID iCLASS
PRINT:
COLORS: enhanced color management system
FONTS: Arial 100, Arial bold 100
AREA: Dual-sided, edge-to-edge printing
BARCODE: Code 39, 2/5 interlaced
METHOD: dye-sublimation and monochrome thermal
transfer; Integrated ribbon saver for monochrome
RESOLUTION: 300 dpi; (11.8 dots/mm)
PRINT SPEED: 125 card per hour thoughput (varies)
RIBBONS:
2-panel KO black monochrome: 500 cards/roll
5-panel YMCKO color: 200 cards/roll
6-panel YMCKO-K color: 200 cards/roll
Half-panel YMCKO color: 400 cards/roll
Monochrome: up to 1,000 cards/roll
PLATFORM
Windows™ 2003, Vista and 7, 32 & 64 bits
CARD STOCK
CR-80: 3.370”L x 2.125”W (85.6 mmx54 mm); PVC or
polyester cards with polished PVC nish; monochrome
resin required for 100% polyester cards; optical
memory cards with PVC nish; CR-79 adhesive back
(3.303x2.051”/ 83.9x 52.1mm)
INTERFACE
MEMORY 16 MB RAM
ELECTRICAL
100 to 240 V AC at 50 to 60 Hz, 1.8 Amps,
Printer: 24 V DC, 3 Amps
RECOMMENDED CARD PRODUCTION
Recommended duty cycle for 50 cards per day/15,000
cards per year
SECURITY
PHYSICAL: Kensington Lock Anchor, lockable hopper
STATUS INDICATOR
LED status indicator
MECHANICAL
Dimensions: H 9.25”; L 17.59”; W 9.33”
H 235 mm; L 447 mm; W237 mm
Weight: 16.31 lbs (7.4 Kg)
ENVIRONMENTAL
TEMP(OP): 59°F - 86°F
TEMP(STOR): 23°F - 158°F
HUMIDITY(OP): 20% - 65%, non-condensing
HUMIDITY(STOR): 20% - 70%, non-condensing
OPERATING VENTILATION
Free air
AGENCY APPROVAL
UL, CE Class B, FCC Class B
USB port (cable supplied)
Founded i n 1972, MagTek is a leading ma nufac turer of electronic sys tems for t he relia ble issuance, readin g, tra nsmis sion and se curit y of card s, chec ks, PINs and
identication documents. Leading w ith innovation and engineering e xcellence, MagTek is known for qualit y and dependability. Its products i nclude secure c ard reader/
authent icators, encry pting check sc anner s, PIN pad s and distributed credential pe rsonalizat ion systems. e se products are used worldw ide by na ncial instit utions,
retailers, a nd proce ssors to provide sec ure and e cient payment and identic ation transa ctions . Today, MagTek continues to innovate. Its MagneSa fe™ hardware
architectu re leverages st rong encr yption, secur e tokenization, dynam ic card authentic ation, a nd devic e/host valid ation ena bling u sers to assess t he trustwor thine ss of
credent ials and ter minals us ed for online ide ntication, p ayment proces sing, and hi gh-value elec tronic transact ions. MagTek is headquartered in Sea l Beach, CA .
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